It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.
The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing...that is a friend who cares.
A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Do not save your loving speeches For your friends till they are dead; Do not write them on their tombstones, Speak them rather now instead.
If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer.
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
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