Quotes: Friendship

(See also Love, Life, Saying goodbye)

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Anais Nin

Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Mark Twain

It's the friends you can call up at 4am that matter.
Marlene Dietrick

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
Oscar Wilde

The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
Barbara Kingsolver

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends
can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
Clifton Fadiman

Needing someone is like needing a parachute. If he isn't there the first time, chances are you won't be needing him again.

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

A friend is one
To whom one may pour out all
The contents of one's heart
Chaff and grain, together,
Knowing that the gentlest of hands
Will take and sift it,
Keep what's worth
And blow the rest away

Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
Len Wein

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
Henry Brook Adams

The road to a friend's house is never long.
Danish Proverb

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
Henry Ford

My friend, if I could give you one thing, I would wish for you the ability to see yourself as others see you. Then you would realize what a truly special person you are.

Help me if you can, I'm feeling down
And I do appreciate your being around
Help me get my feet back on the ground
Won't you please, please, help me
The Beatles, Help!

Go slowly to the entertainments of thy friends, but quickly to their misfortunes.
Chilo


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