Friendship Quotes

consistent affection for his characters is what sets Tolstoy apart. Flaubert is equally “objective,” he says, but “Flaubert’s objectivity is charged with irritability and Tolstoy’s with affection. For Flaubert everyone and everything is somehow at fault. For Tolstoy everyone and everything has a saving grace.”“By loving people without cause, he discovered indubitable causes for loving them.” It would be hard to find a more succinct description of the chief work of the Holy Spirit in the human heart.

~ Lionel Trilling

I'm not asking you to walk in my shoes, I'd never wish my afflictions on anyone. But could you walk beside me on secure ground and reach to hold my hand?

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

My friend is my friend, even if he wears rag, even if he wasn't born with a silver spoon, even if nobody wants to be his friend, i will hurt his critics by remaining his friend.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

And as I thought about the body of Ray Brower in this light- or lack of it- what I felt was not queasiness or fear that he would suddenly appear before us, a green and gibbering banshee whose purpose was to drive us back the way we had come before we could disturb his- its- peace,but a sudden and unexpected wash of pity that he should be so alone and so defenceless in the dark that was now coming over our side of the world.

~ Stephen King

He is a principled man, and compassionate, someone who will remind himself of your best qualities while struggling to forgive your worst. In short, he is a friend.

~ Tracy Guzeman

I can’t hope to convey the full effect of the embraces and avowals, but I can perhaps offer a crumb of counsel. If there is anybody known to you who might benefit from a letter or a visit, do not on any account postpone the writing or the making of it. The difference made will almost certainly be more than you have calculated

~ Christopher Hitchens

Do not ignore your best friend because some other friend hurt you.

~ Debasish Mridha

The best gift that we can give to our friends is true love and sincere appreciation.

~ Debasish Mridha

Every new friend is a new journey through a brand new road toward a brand new mysterious heart.

~ Debasish Mridha

A true friend fills our lives with the aroma of love.

~ Debasish Mridha

To be a best friend, the best word to live by is reciprocity.

~ Debasish Mridha

A friend can give you the freedom to think differently.

~ Debasish Mridha M.d.

A good friend is someone who can love you like a dog and talk to you like a human.

~ Debasish Mridha M.d.

I'm an answer, Frankie. Maybe you're an answer for me, too?—Emerson

~ Liza M. Wiemer

So by keeping her word, Frieda B. made amends. And the two who'd been strangers became best of friends.

~ Renata Bowers

You will never let go of the one thing that God keeps prompting you to fix.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Such a simple thing, kindness. Such a simple thing. A nice word of encouragement, given when needed. An act of friendship. A passing smile.

~ R.j. Palacio

Allowing a person or thing to leave your life, without further pain is the basis of humanity. Everything else is the reason (theology).

~ Shannon L. Alder

a friend is someone who, when you make a mistake reminds you that you will, forever after,be a kinder person because of it...

~ Kate Mullane Robertson

The people are hungry,” Mihali said. He lifted his hands, spreading them to encompass the city. “The people need to be fed. They need bread and wine and soup and meat. But not just that. They need friendship.” He pointed to a minor noble, some viscount decked out in his finest foppish frills, who poured a bottle of St. Adom’s Festival wine into the cups of a half-dozen street urchins.“They need companionship,” Mihali said. “They need love and brotherhood.” He turned to Tamas. He reached out with one hand, putting a palm to Tamas’s cheek. Instinct told Tamas to step back. He found that he couldn’t.“You gorged them on the blood of the nobility,” Mihali said gently. “They drank, but were not filled. They ate of hatred and grew hungrier.” He took a deep breath. “Your intentions were… well, not pure, but just. Justice is never enough.” He let go of Tamas and turned to the square. “I will put things right,” he said. He puffed out his chest and spread his arms. “I will feed all of Adro. It is what they need.

~ Brian Mcclellan

May my thoughts of kindness stretch over like a warm blanket to envelop your being and caress your soul.

~ Truth Devour

The more you put your arm around those that you might naturally look down on, the more you will love yourself. And the more you love yourself, the less need you’ll ever have to find fault or be better than others. And the less we all find fault or have a need to be better than others, the quicker this world becomes a far better place to live.

~ Dan Pearce

Some love comes like the wind off the sea, while others grow slowly from the seeds of friendship and kindness. - Carline

~ Raymond E. Feist

I cannot hate gay men, I cannot hate homosexuality. At the lowest points in my life, when all else abandoned me, my gay men friends were my sisters, aunts, mothers who lifted me up on their shoulders and reminded me that there is light at the end of the tunnel. If I were to hate gay men, or to condemn them just because they're gay, I would be a hypocrite. I simply cannot turn my back on arms that held me in my darkest hours.

~ C. Joybell C.

Hold dear and true friends close to your heart, it matters not where you find them, only that you treat them with love and respect always.

~ L.m. Fields

I have been so very, very fortunate in my life. I've met or been in contact with several of my childhood heroes. I've interacted with people all over this planet, and even though I couldn't possibly hope to remember all their names, I remember a photograph, a poem, a sound, a joke, kind words of encouragement. All is not lost.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

Many are the friendships that have found an unforseeen and sudden end on a journey, and few are those that survive it.

~ Elizabeth Von Arnim

I've met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with.

~ Hedy Lamarr

Only real true friends will tell you when your face is dirty,Others will either pamper, avoid or laugh at you certainly.[227] - 4 (Thoughts)

~ Munindra Misra

Just because all your friends are doing it, doesn't mean you have to follow suit. Don't be a blind follower, you don't know where you're going.

~ Lik Hock Yap

In poverty a man is alone. But with prosperity, He has many friends.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Do not earn wealth and lose people, for earning people is a way of earning wealth.

~ محمد عبد الرحمن العريفي

I have a hundred million fans, Angela, but I have very few friends.

~ Raynetta Manees

You could climb to the top of the world and jump into the deepest of ravines, but if you don’t have someone to share it with you’ll always be looking back.

~ Saim Cheeda

Sometimes I think, What a man gonna do with all this media publicity, Photos in newspapers, photography in and among the industry, references and contacts when he cannot help a friend, when he has no family life, and not Even a dog to welcome him after work hours!

~ Himmilicious

What happiness to sit in intimate conversation with someone of like mind, warmed by candid discussion of the amusing and fleeting ways of this world ... but such a friend is hard to find, and instead you sit there doing your best to fit in with whatever the other is saying, feeling deeply alone.

~ Kenkō Hōshi (Yoshida Kenkō)

And that is one of the worst things about this life. As a liar, a pretend person, you cannot really truly ever be someone's friend. My American life, it is lonely. Often, it is very, very lonely.

~ Jillian Cantor

I'm never going to be happy, but I could get close now, I think. I could be almost normal. I could have a friend.

~ Alyssa Brugman

If you're constantly making yourself available to people's whims, your time will become less valuable. Keep your backbone in any relationship - make sure you're not so dedicated to it, and it shall stay sweet forever.

~ Auliq Ice

God desires that man should be. God does not wish to be alone. The meaning of existence is the conquest of loneliness, the acquisition of kinship and nearness.

~ Nikolai A. Berdyaev