Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!
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When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy.
When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
I will be near you when you cry if just to say I sympathize and when it's more than you read more
I will be near you when you cry if just to say I sympathize and when it's more than you can take, I'll watch the tears fall from your eyes.
... 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.
Your worst enemy could be your best friend, and your best friend your worst enemy.
Your worst enemy could be your best friend, and your best friend your worst enemy.
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is read more
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
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.
The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
