True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
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.
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
You Too? I thought I was the only one.
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Friendship is Love without his wings!
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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.
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
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