True friends see who we really are, hear our words and the feelings behind them, hold us in the safe harbor of their embrace, and accept us as we are. Good friends mirror our best back to us, forgive us our worst, and believe we will evolve into wise, wacky, and wonderful old people. Dear friends give us their undivided attention, encourage us to laugh, and entice us into silliness. And we do the same for them. A true friend gives us the courage to be ourselves because he or she is with us always and in all ways. In the safety of such friendships, our hearts can fully open.
Your face looked like something Death brought with him in his suitcase.
There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.
A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
I've always looked at friends as the family we choose.
To ask me whether I could endure to live without friends is absurd. It is easy enough to live out of material sight of friends, but to live without human love is impossible.
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died.
Faith in friendship is the noblest part.
I used food as a coping mechanism for many, many years, and it was my best friend for a long time.
You're young and dumb and quick at the tongue.
You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship.
I was too dumb to know Opie was going to grow up to be a great Director, if so, boy, I would certainly have become his best friend.
The only joy in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine.
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
As long as our orientation is toward perfection or success, we will never learn about unconditional friendship with ourselves, nor will we find compassion.
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
Hand Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship, And great hearts expand And grow one in the sense of this world's life.
Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.
There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship.
When the only bond between close friends is attachment, then even a minor issue may cause one's projections to change. As soon as our projections change, the attachment disappears, because that attachment was based solely on projection and expectation. It is possible to have compassion without attachment, and similarly, to have anger without hatred.