Friendship

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

A friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart.

Never waste an opportunity to tell someone you love them.

The perfect friend sees the best in you - sees it constantly - not just when you occasionally are that way, but also when you waver, when you forget yourself, act like less than you are.  In time, you become more like his vision of you - which is the person you have always wanted to be. (Nancy Friday)

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care. (Dr. John Maxwell)

You cannot touch your neighbor's heart with anything less than your own.

May your home always be too small to hold all of your friends. (Irish Blessing)

Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law. (Romans 13:8)

Don't think that this is a letter. It is only a small eruption of a disease called friendship. (Jean Renoir)

Friendship multiplies our joys and divides our grief.

If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back. (Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity)

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. (Jean Anouilh)

I set out to find a friend but couldn't find one; I set out to be a friend, and friends were everywhere.

Affection is created by habit, community of interests, convenience, and the desire of companionship. It is a comfort rather than an exhilaration. (W. Somerset Maugham)

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. (Grace Pulpit)

Friendship is stopping to listen when you have a lot to say.

A true friend will remember your birthday but will forget how many birthdays you've had.

Friendship fills up all those little ruts in life's road.

Treat your friends like family and your family like friends.

A hug is a perfect gift - one size fits all and nobody minds if you give it back.

Be grateful for the doors of opportunity - and for friends who oil the hinges.

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor. (Danish Proverb)

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too. (Thomas Fuller)

There are some people who pass through your life like a butterfly. They rarely make contact and then are quickly gone. There are those who pass through your life as fellow travelers. They sit and talk for awhile on the airplane, but upon touchdown, they drift away toward their own destinations. Then there are people who pass through your life and set up camp. They work with you, share with you, borrow from you, care about you. These are the kind that give meaning to life.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. (Margaret Lee Runbeck)

A best friend is a sister that destiny forgot to give you.

Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and you cry with your girlfriends. (Laurie Kuslansky)

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. (Charles Caleb Colton)

We are friends and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often. (Jeanette Winterson)

Strangers are friends just waiting to happen.

Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say.

He whose hand is clasped in friendship will not throw mud.

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends (Japanese Proverb)

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. (John Dunne)

"Pooh, promise you won't forget about me, ever. Not even when I'm a hundred." Pooh thought for a little. "How old shall I be then?" "Ninety-nine." Pooh nodded. "I promise," he said. (A. A. Milne, "The House at Pooh Corner")

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 Swindoll)

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. (Oprah Winfrey)

The ornament of a house is the guest who frequents it.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when they would rather be someplace else. (Len Wein)

This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends. (John 15:12-13)

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit. (Aristotle)

If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough. (Ann Landers)

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. (Henry Ford)

A Simple Friend vs. A Real Friend

A simple friend has never seen you cry. A real friend has shoulders soggy from your tears.

A simple friend doesn't know your parents' first names. A real friend has their phone numbers in her address book.

A simple friend brings a bottle of wine to your party. A real friend comes early to help you cook and stays late to help you clean.

A simple friend hates it when you call after he has gone to bed. A real friend asks you why you took so long to call.

A simple friend seeks to talk with you about your problems. A real friend seeks to help you with your problems.

A simple friend wonders about your romantic history. A real friend could blackmail you with it.

A simple friend, when visiting, acts like a guest. A real friend opens your refrigerator and helps herself.

A simple friend thinks the friendship is over when you have an argument. A real friend calls you after you have a fight.

A simple friend expects you to always be there for them. A real friend expects to always be there for you.