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What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
Sep 24, 2025
If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends.
Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.
Real friendships among men are so rare that when they occur they are famous.
A messy house is a must - it separates your true friends from other friends. Real friends are there to visit you not your house!
In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.
Montalbano felt moved. This was real friendship, Sicilian friendship, the kind based on intuition, on what was left unsaid. With a true friend, one never needs to ask, because the other understands on his own accordingly.
A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.
My intention always has been to arrive at human contact without enforcing authority. A musician, after all, is not a mili- tary officer. What matters most is human contact. The great mys- tery of music making requires real friendship among those who work together. Every member of the orchestra knows I am with him and her in my heart.
If you want others to like you, if you want to develop real friendships, if you want to help others at the same time as you help yourself, keep this principle in mind: Become genuinely interested in other people.
I learned that a real friendship is not about what you can get, but what you can give. Real friendship is about making sacrifices and investing in people to help them improve their lives.
When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work , but the solidest thing we know.
Real friendship, love, respect, and trust are all gained without a single dollar.
A real friendship is a light thing. A real friend holds you loosely.
The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
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.
A real friendship should not fade as time passes, and should not weaken because of space separation.
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.
I'm someone who loves to enjoy life and tries to focus on real things and real friendships. That's why I live very simply. I'm a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl. I don't spend much time fixing myself up or trying to look cool. I live like a normal person and even though I'm in a very high-profile business, I really don't let it affect the way I live.
I'm someone who loves to enjoy life and tries to focus on real things and real friendships. That's why I live very simply.
Acceptance is the universal currency of real friendship. . . .It does not warp or shape or wrench a person to be anything other than what they are.
Why you were born and why you are living depend entirely on what you are getting out of this world and what you are giving to it. I cannot prove that this is a balance of mathematical perfection, but my own observation of life leads me to the conclusion that there is a very real friendship, both quantitatively and qualitatively, between what you contribute and what you get out of life.
Obey God in the things he shows you, and instantly the next thing is opened up. God will never reveal more truth about himself until you have obeyed what you know already...this chapter brings out the delight of real friendship with God.
Swarmers run the risk of skittering like water bugs on the surface of life. By being quickly and constantly connected, they can avoid deep contact in time-consuming and meaningful ways... You're flitting from one place to another. You're more likely to pursue superficial engagements rather than deep pursuits. It contributes to this certain MTV approach to life where you engage in something for a few minutes and then there's a commercial... You have to get a grip on reality. Unless you know what is real-what is a real friendship and relationship-neither can have an effect on you.
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.
Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
If your heart was as big as your mouth you'd be real.
Whatever my life looks like, I want it to be real and big and full. I want when, if I get hit by a car, I want to know that I have deep and real friendships, people to visit me in the hospital.
Maybe that's what real friendship is -- getting so used to people that you need to be annoyed by them.
Intimate acquaintance must precede real friendship
An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.
You don't have to write to me if you don't feel like it. There's no real friendship without absolute freedom.
Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.
That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.
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?
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
True friends stab you in the front.
Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.
My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
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.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo.
You Too? I thought I was the only one.
Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.