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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.
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 friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters read more
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely.
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
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.
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.
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. read more
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.
Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, read more
Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
