“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.”
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.
“Don't walk behind me I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”
“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.”
“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.”
“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”
“There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.”
“It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
“If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.”
“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.”
“A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.”
“It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.”
“Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.”
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
“True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.”
“I didn't like England. I couldn't take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I need more intimacy from people than is considered okay there, and I felt that my personality and my enthusiasms weren't understood. I had to put a big lid on myself.”
“The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.”