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To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any read more
To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life.
My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
To the world you are just one person, but to one person you could mean the world.
To the world you are just one person, but to one person you could mean the world.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by read more
... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.
A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.
A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.
Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.
Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it read more
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 now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
