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True friendshipship is like phosphorescence-it glows best when the world around you goes dark.
Sep 29, 2025
Don't expect your friend to be a perfect person. Help your friend to become a perfect person. That is true friendship
If you loved once, and if you cared once, you never really stop. And if you build a true foundation, a true friendship, that never really goes away.
True friendship is self-love at second hand; where, as in a flattering mirror we may see our virtues magnified and our errors softened, and where we may fancy our opinion of ourselves confirmed by an impartial and faithful witness.
Silence is a true friend who never betrays.
The definition of a true friend is not someone who swoops in when you're going through a rough patch. True friendship is when someone can appreciate your happiness - celebrate your happiness, even when she's not necessarily happy herself.
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer.
The essence of true friendship, in my view, is to make allowances for one another's little lapses.
Agreement in likes and dislikes - this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship.
Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.
Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.
No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.
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.
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
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.
I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.
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.
I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.
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.
The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
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.
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.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.
Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.
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.
Friends make life a lot more fun.
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.
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.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple.
A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.