"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
— Elbert Hubbard
...thats as simple as it gets!
"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 not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares."
— Henri J.M. Nouwen (The Road to Daybreak: A Spiritual Journey)
...Its the people who are there for you when you need them... the ones who care
"I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff."
— Jon Katz
— Jon Katz
...I love this. BE THERE! Just be there...
"The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away."
— Barbara Kingsolver
— Barbara Kingsolver
... It doesnt matter what you say. It really doesnt. Its the fact that you were there holding their hand. You didnt just stay away because you dont know what to say anymore.
"A faithful friend is a strong defense;
And he that hath found him hath found a treasure."
— Louisa May Alcott
And he that hath found him hath found a treasure."
— Louisa May Alcott
...appreciate your friends.
"Every friendship travels at sometime through the black valley of despair. This tests every aspect of your affection. You lose the attraction and the magic. Your sense of each other darkens and your presence is sore. If you can come through this time, it can purify with your love, and falsity and need will fall away. It will bring you onto new ground where affection can grow again."
— John O'Donohue (Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom)
— John O'Donohue (Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom)
... This is so true. Sometimes you go through so much. But its like burning a forest. The trees grow back in furtile soil.
"We spent all those years talking about stuff we had in common, and the last few months noticing all the ways we were different and it broke both of our hearts."
— Nick Hornby
— Nick Hornby
...oh... how true...
"When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character."
— W. Somerset Maugham
— W. Somerset Maugham
...and this is why i'm not friends with my friend's girlfriend. ya.
"If our friendship depends on things like space and time, then when we finally overcome space and time, we've destroyed our own brotherhood! But overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now. And in the middle of Here and Now, don't you think that we might see each other once or twice?"
— Richard Bach (Jonathan Livingston Seagull)
— Richard Bach (Jonathan Livingston Seagull)
... Just read it again. I know its confusing. But it kind of makes sence.
... Oh man. That made me laugh. So Punny.
"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."
— Pam Brown
— Pam Brown
...well... i've tried that.
