Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light. – Jennie Jerome Churchill
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 the breath of kindness, blow the rest away. – George Eliot
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. 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 and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. – Henri J.M. Nouwen
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. – Helen Keller
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
…when people have light in themselves, it will shine out from them. Then we get to know each other as we walk together in the darkness, without needing to pass our hands over each other’s faces, or to intrude into each other’s hearts. – Albert Schweitzer
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this? – Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: “What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . . – C.S. Lewis
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. – Anaïs Nin
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over. – Octavia Butler
A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. – Alban Goodier
And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. – Kahlil Gibran
It is a good thing to be rich, and a good thing to be strong, but it is better to be beloved of many friends. – Euripides
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. – Elbert Hubbard
The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a person’s success in life. – Edward Everett Hale
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path. – Scandinavian Mythology
A friend is a present you give yourself. – Robert Louis Stevenson
I do not wish to treat friends daintily, but with roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. – Aristotle
I know now that the world is not filled with strangers. It is full of other people – waiting only to be spoken to. – Beth Day
Friends should be treasured. And to have good friends, you must be a good friend. That’s what mother told me. As always, she was right. – Angela Douglas
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love, and to be loved, is the greatest happiness. – Sydney Smith
Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams. – Henry David Thoreau
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence. – Joseph Roux
There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature. – Jane Austen
Friends are people who go on conspiratorial shopping sprees together, diving in and out of shops totally beyond their price range, and ending up eating oozing cream cakes with only just enough money to get home. – Pam Brown
Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find. – William Shakespeare
It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. – Marlene Dietrich
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Find hope in your darkest hour.
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