Friendship Wishes and Status Messages - Page 106

"Stay" is a charming word in a friend''s vocabulary.

"The only thing better than making a new friend is to keep the old one."

"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."

Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallibl

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

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.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intenti

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?"

Remember, no man is a failure who has friends.

Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.

"A faithful friend is the medicine of life."

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love.

There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.

You can''t shake hands with a clenched fist.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

We all need friends with whom we can speak of our deepest concerns, and who do not fear to speak the truth in love to us.

"The only way to have a friend is to be one."

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes.

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.