Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
Friendship is so weird. You just pick a human you've met and you're like, 'Yep, I like this one,' and you just do stuff with them.
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.
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
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.
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
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.
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