Quotes on Friendship Garden

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

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.

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

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.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.