Real Friends Quotes - Page 21

• I spent a good portion of my life being unable to honor my feelings. When I started the process of having real friendships it was a huge change. I still struggle with it because it is not familiar ground.

  Bonnie St. John

  Real, Struggle, Feelings

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• Friendship's the wine of life.

  Edward Young

  Friendship, Real, Wine

  Edward Young (1821). “Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality”, p.38

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• The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.

  Francis Bacon

  Real, Faithful, Mind

  Francis Bacon (2016). “Essays”, p.64, Jazzybee Verlag

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• But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness.

  Francis Bacon

  True Friend, Real, Solitude

  Francis Bacon (2015). “Bacon's Essays: Top Essays”, p.47, 谷月社

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• A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.

  Francis Bacon

  Real, Passion, Heart

  Francis Bacon, Samuel Weller SINGER (1868). “Essays or Counsels civil and moral”, p.94

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• A real friend or mentor isn't on your payroll.

  Prince

  Real, Mentor, Payroll

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• Growing up from Nirvana to all the bands I was listening to at the teenage time, those were my best friends, more than my real friends. Those were the people that sang me to sleep or gave me the confidence I needed to go to first period. When we're all so insecure with weird stuff, when we're having weird feelings toward girls or guys, or whatever. It's the insecurity of life that we all go through. So music helped me.

  Aaron Bruno

  Girl, Growing Up, Teenage

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• To be a friend takes time, and time is what nobody has. Therefore, real friends are rare.

  Suzanne Massie

  Friends, Real, Take Time

  Robert Massie; Suzanne Massie (1975). “Journey”

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• Far as I'm concerned, friendship between black and white don't mean that much 'cause it usually ain't on a equal basis. ... Maybe one day whites and blacks can be real friends, but right now the country ain't built that way.

  Mildred D. Taylor

  Country, Real, Mean

  Mildred D. Taylor (2004). “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Puffin Modern Classics)”, p.115, Penguin

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• There is no friend like the old friend, who has shared our morning days,
  No greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise:
  Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold;
  But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Sweet, Morning, Real

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• Some friendships are made by nature, some by contract, some by interest, and some by souls.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Real, Soul, Made

  Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1854). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Clerus domini. Office ministerial. Discourse of friendship. Rules and advices to the clergy. Life”, p.86

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• That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

  Jim Morrison

  Famous Love, Being Yourself, True Friend

  "Jim Morrison: Ten Years Gone". "Creem Magazine" Interview with Lizzie James, 1981.

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• A real friendship should not fade as time passes, and should not weaken because of space separation.

  John Newton

  Friendship, Real, Space

  John Newton (2009). “廿一世纪完全作人原则: The English-Traditional Chinese Page to Page Correspondence Display Edition, Useful for Learning Chinese”, p.260, Nicer Century World Publishing

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• So when this opportunity came up through Elisabeth Murdoch and her company Shine, to be an executive producer and actually be part of the show, I liked the idea because I like the word mentor. I don't want to judge someone. I like sharing my knowledge with my girls, and anything they ask me I'll try to do to help them. Any of my real friends who know me, know that's how I really am.

  Naomi Campbell

  Girl, Real, Opportunity

  Interview Magazine Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 12, 2013.

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• The real friend is another self.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Real, Self

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• Real friendship is a slow grower.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Real, Real Friendship

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.54, Oxford University Press

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• I have a theory that as long as you have one good friend, one real friend, you can get through anything.

  Dana Reinhardt

  Real, Good Friend, Long

  Dana Reinhardt (2009). “How to Build a House”, p.95, Wendy Lamb Books

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• I do feel free, I have patched things up with my ex-husband to the degree of this real friendship. We spend a lot of time together as a family with our son, no way will we be man and wife again.

  Beccy Cole

  Husband, Real, Son

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• I shall pursue a straight forward course deviating neither to the right or left so that comes what may I hope my real friends will never have to blush for me, so far as truth, honesty & fair dealings are concerned.

  Zachary Taylor

  Honesty, Real, May

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• I have a really grounded group of friends, and they like me no matter what. I think it's really important to know who your real friends are.

  Jackson Guthy

  Real, Thinking, Important

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• I don't know when we made [10 Things I Hate About You] that we ever thought it would last in popularity as long as it has, but I think that speaks to the strength of the bond of the cast when we were making it. I think you can tell that we adored each other and that we were real friends. To this day, Joe Gordon-Levitt is a good friend, and obviously Heath [Ledger] was a great guy.

  David Krumholtz

  Hate, Real, Good Friend

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Truth and tears clear the way to a deep and lasting friendship.
  True friendship is never serene.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  True Friend, Real, Tears

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• I am thinking of actual cases of adolescents, lets say, who think they have five hundred friends, because there are five hundred people on their Facebook account. But these are the kind of friends whose relation to you is that if you say 'I bought a sandwich'; they say 'did it taste good?' You know, that's a kind of interaction, but very different to having a real friend, somebody who you can actually talk to.

  Noam Chomsky

  Real, Thinking, People

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• I think that social networking makes people more connected, yet more distant, so there are people with less ties to real friend groups and less a sense of self.

  Lena Dunham

  Real, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• For me one of the most important things is not feeling like you have to protect yourself if you're with a real friend.

  Rebecca Stead

  Real, Feelings, Important

  Source: www.hbook.com

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