Quotes on Real Friends

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.

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

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

To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

If you want others to like you, if you want to develop real friendships, if you want to help others at the same time as you help yourself, keep this principle in mind: Become genuinely interested in other people.

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

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.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Always in absent lovers love's tide flows stronger.

A real friend does not pick up the bill for an addict’s drugs: he packs the friend off to rehab instead. Today, only those who speak up against Israel’s policies – who denounce the occupation, the blockade, and the war – are the nation’s true friends.