“ Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend ”
“ Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . . ”
“ It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. ”
“ The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for. ”
“ There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature. ”
“ If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever. ”
“ Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
"Pooh!" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you. ”
“ When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable. ”
“ When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean 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. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. ”
Henri J.M. Nouwen , Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life
“ You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together. ”
“ Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival. ”
“ You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes. ”
“ Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about. ”
“ Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing. ”
“ I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff. ”
“ Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. ”
“ He must have known I'd want to leave you."
"No, he must have known you would always want to come back. ”
“ How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em. ”
“ Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment. ”
“ Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. ”
“ It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch? ”
“ Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with. ”
“ Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies. ”
“ There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature. ”
“ Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?"
"Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you. ”
“ If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky. ”
“ Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure. ”
“ There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books. ”
“ Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find. ”
William Shakespeare , The Passionate Pilgrim (By Shakspere, Marlowe, Barnfield, Griffin, And Other Writers Unknown)
“ Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that. ”
“ The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them ”
Thomas Merton , No man is an island – A selection from the prose
“ The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families. ”
“ There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them. ”
“ A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship. ”
“ The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not 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. ”
“ I am looking for friends. What does that mean -- tame?"
"It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. "It means to establish ties."
"To establish ties?"
"Just that," said the fox. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.... ”
“ People have forgotten this truth," the fox said. "But you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose. ”
“ Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected. ”
Charles Lamb , The Life, Letters and Writings of Charles Lamb
“ Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. ”
“ I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam. ”
“ It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill. ”
Emilie Autumn , The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls (Author Edition)
“ Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble. ”
“ If you have good friends, no matter how much life is sucking , they can make you laugh. ”
“ I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though. ”
