True Friend Quotes - Page 6

The definition of a true friend is not someone who swoops in when you're going through a rough patch. True friendship is when someone can appreciate your happiness - celebrate your happiness, even when she's not necessarily happy herself.

Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.

If you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

With every true friendship, we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests.

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

Overall I think that the most important thing is to have true friends, and always to stay true to yourself and never try to be somebody that you're not.

A high character might be produced, I suppose, by continued prosperity, but it has very seldom been the case. Adversity, however it may appear to be our foe, is our true friend; and, after a little acquaintance with it, we receive it as a precious thing - the prophecy of a coming joy. It should be no ambition of ours to traverse a path without a thorn or stone.

If you loved once, and if you cared once, you never really stop. And if you build a true foundation, a true friendship, that never really goes away.

The greatest medicine is a true friend.

The one who praises you is a thief. The one who criticizes you is your true friend.

A true friend is distinguished in the crisis of hazard and necessity; when the gallantry of his aid may show the worth of his soul and the loyalty of his heart.

A true friend will see you through when others see that you are through.

Loving, hating, having expectations: all these are attachments. Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

True friendship resists time, distance and silence.

When a dog is balanced, you are going to enjoy a true friend.

True friends are families which you can select.

True friends don't hold us back spiritually or pull us down when we're trying to rise and progress. True friends protect us. True friends help us be better than we would be on our own.

True friendship is like the asphalt of life. It fills in the potholes and makes the journey smooth.

A true friend is tested in adversity.

There is no better friendship booster than the ability to listen. The ability to show genuine interest in others is an admirable quality of a true friend.

Speaking truth will rarely earn you friends, but it will reveal who your true friends are and who are true friends of Christ.

A true friend sticks with you through thick and thin no matter what.

Dogs are easier to love than people; they're certainly more dependable. Once they love you, that's it. A true friend in life is a dog.

A true friend of mankind whose heart has but once quivered in compassion over the sufferings of the people, will understand and forgive all the impassable alluvial filth in which they are submerged, and will be able to discover the diamonds in the filth.