One of
the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be
understood.
--Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Let us
be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who
make our souls blossom.
--Marcel Proust
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 healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.
--Henri
Nouwen
In
everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into
flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for
those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
--Albert
Schweitzer
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.
--Charles
R. Swindoll
So long
as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that
life is good.
--Helen
Keller
A true
friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
--Len
Wein
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.
--Anais
Nin
There is
nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
--Thomas
Aquinas
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
Friends...
they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.
--Henry
David Thoreau
A real
friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
--Walter
Winchell
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.
--Laurence
J. Peter
Nothing
but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
--Plautus
