“Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.”
Good friends are hard to find and worth holding onto. These quotes celebrate the people who show up, tell you the truth, and stick around when things get difficult — the chosen family that makes life richer.
“A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.”
“Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.”
“Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.”
“Love is friendship set on fire.”
“Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.”
“Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.”
“Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.”
“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”
“A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.”
“It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.”
“Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.”
“Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship and pass the rosy wine.”
“No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.”
“True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.”
“I'm calling my book series the 'with God series.' And this next 'with God' book is Friendship with God, which comes out in November. This books challenges us to bring about the end of 'better' on this planet.”
“Today, I, too, wish to reaffirm that I intend to continue on the path toward improved relations and friendship with the Jewish people, following the decisive lead given by John Paul II.”