Courtesy of Henrik Edberg The Positivity Blog
“A good friend is a connection to life — a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.“
Lois Wyse
“One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words, they lie concealed in the silence between the words or in the depth of what is unsayable between two people.”
John O’Donohue
“A friend is someone who makes it easy to believe in yourself.”
Heidi Wills
“Awards become corroded. Friends gather no dust.”
Jesse Owens
“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself — and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.”
Jim Morrison
“Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.“
Samuel Butler
“Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.”
Baltasar Gracian
“Friends are the family you choose.“
Jess C. Scott
“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.”
Henry Ford
“The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Friends are relatives you make for yourself.“
Eustache Deschamps
“Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God’s greatest gifts. It involves many things, but above all the power of going out of one’s self and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.”
Thomas Hughes
“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”
Khalil Gibran
“A friend to all is a friend to none.”
Aristotle
“A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.“
Markus Zusak
“Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead; do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.”
Anna Cummins
“We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.”
Orson Welles
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means 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.”
Henri Nouwen
