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The Divine has loved me as mother, as father, and as friend, behind all friends. I searched for that one Friend behind all friends, that one lover whom I now see glimmering in all your faces. And that friend never fails me.
Sep 29, 2025
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
When you're scrambling to fill the void in your life and you feel like you're drowning... we all yearn to hear that one friend's voice, say: "You're going to get through this."
One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
Coupling doesn't always have to do with sex ... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one's deepest as well as one's most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely. Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.
Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.
A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.
It's a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
Two are better than one,because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lif' up his fellow, but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up.
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
Ever have that one friend who gets a Valentine's Day gift for their mother? Doens't that freak you out a little? It's like, 'I don't know how to break this to you but I think she's banging your dad!'
The best mirror is an old friend.
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.
Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.
One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.
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.
One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.
There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.
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.
One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one.
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
You Too? I thought I was the only one.
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
He who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.