Befriended...

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

There is nothing we like to see so much as the gleam of pleasure in a person's eye when he feels that we have sympathized with him, understood him. At these moments something fine and spiritual passes between two friends. These are the moments worth living.

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.

We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.

If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?

A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

There is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and changes the relationship forever.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

True friendship consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and value.

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

Friends

We don't need sugar, flour or rice or anything else. We just want to see our dear ones.


If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.


One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.



If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

Even after all this time,
The sun never says to the earth,
"You owe me."
Look what happens with
A love like that.
It lights the whole sky.


In the spiritual life nowhere do our ideals meet the actual more truly than in how we relate to each other, in how we make, sustain and are friends.


We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.

Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.



How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might go and meet their ideal cousins.

Nobody sees a flower -- really -- it is so small it takes time -- we haven't time -- and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.



The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

Me,you,us

The best time to make friends is before you need them.~Ethel Barrymore

There is magic in long-distance friendships.  They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound.  ~Diana Cortes

A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should.~Author Unknown

‘Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.  ~Benjamin Franklin

Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little.~E.W. Howe

The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head.  ~Author Unknown

If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends – you’re safe in doing it.  But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue. ~Alice Duer Miller

Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.  ~Emil Ludwig

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship is Love with jewels on, but without either flowers or veil. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare,

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.  ~Francesco Guicciardini

The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.~Gwyneth Paltrow

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.  ~Menclus

Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. ~Dag Hammarskjold

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.  ~Thomas A. Edison

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack.  Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.  ~Plutarch

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

Best friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you anyway.

Never explain yourself. Your friends don’t need it and your enemies won’t believe it.

One who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

The best mirror in the world is an old friend.

True friends are very difficult to find, hard to leave, and impossible to forget.

When you look around and your world is crumbling or when you think no one loves you, your best friend is the one to run to you.

A friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be somewhere else.

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.

A road to a friend’s house is never long.

I’ve always said that in politics, your enemies can’t hurt you, but your friends will kill you.

Count your age with friends but not with years.

A true friend sticks with you through thick and thin no matter what.

Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows.

True friendship is when two friends can walk in opposite directions, yet remain side by side.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
~Abraham Lincoln

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
~Aristotle

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.
~Homer

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
~Czech. Proverb

Best friend quotes

Girl Talk

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.  ~Dinah Craik

I felt it shelter to speak to you. ~Emily Dickinson

No road is long with good company.  ~Turkish Proverb

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~Marcel Proust

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.  ~Douglas Pagels

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend. ~Aristotle

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out.  It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being.  We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.  ~Albert Schweitzer

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.” ~A.A. Milne

A good friend is a connection to life – a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.  ~Lois Wyse

A good friend is cheaper than therapy. ~Author Unknown

If a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do.  Think up something appropriate and do it.  ~Edgar Watson Howe

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.  ~Henry David Thoreau

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.  ~Arnold Glasow

But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.
~William Shakespeare

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.  ~Elisabeth Foley

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. ~William Blake

One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.  ~George Santayana

She is a friend of mind.  She gather me, man.  The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.  It’s good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind. ~Toni Morrison

A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.  ~Donna Roberts

If I had to sum up Friendship in one word, it would be Comfort.~Adabella Radici

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone.  A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.  ~Samuel Johnson

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer.  ~Author Unknown

A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.  ~Grace Pulpit

One doesn’t know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one’s friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one.~D.H. Lawrence

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.  ~C.S. Lewis

Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship. ~Dorothy Parker

There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one’s self, the very meaning of one’s soul.  ~Edith Wharton

There are big ships and small ships.  But the best ship of all is friendship. ~Author Unknown

The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you’ve had.  ~Author Unknown

The language of friendship is not words but meanings. ~Henry David Thoreau

It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.  ~Marlene Dietrich

Friends can be said to “fall in like” with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.  ~Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.  ~Plautus

Silences make the real conversations between friends.  Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. ~Margaret Lee Runbeck

Love is like the wild-rose briar;
Friendship is like the holly-tree.
The holly is dark when the rose briar blooms,
But which will bloom most constantly?
~Emily Brontë

The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another.  Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

We are not enemies, but friends.  We must not be enemies.  Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.  The mystic cords of memory will swell when again touched as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature.  ~Abraham Lincoln

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

True friends stab you in the front.  ~Oscar Wilde

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. ~Rod McKuen

It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.  ~Epicurus

The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Friendship is a sheltering tree.  ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. ~Shirley Maclaine

Friendship is Love, without his wings.  ~Lord Byron

A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. ~William Penn

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.  ~Thomas Jefferson

Broken Heart

 Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. 

Oprah Winfrey

 Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take. 

Anthony Robbins

 Some people come into our lives and leave footprints on our hearts and we are never ever the same. 

Flavia Weedn

 The act of forgiveness is the act of returning to present time. And that's why when one has become a forgiving person, and has managed to let go of the past, what they've really done is they've shifted their relationship with time. 

Caroline Myss

 You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. 

Unknown

 Love is the hardest drug to quit, but it is even harder when it is taken away. 

Unknown

 When you remember how hard it is to change yourself, you begin to understand what little chance we have of changing others. 

Unknown

 It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace. 

George Bernard Shaw

 I want to be remembered as the girl who always smiles even when her heart is broken, and the one that could always brighten up your day even if she couldn't brighten her own. 

Unknown

 Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. 

James Baldwin

 A teardrop is insignificant in a pool of water, but it can touch the soul as it runs down someone's face. 

Unknown

 Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated. 

Lamartine

 You flew off with the wings of my heart and left me flightless. 

Stelle Atwater

 Let your tears come. Let them water your soul. 

Eileen Mayhew

 The heart is the only broken instrument that works. 

T.E. Kalem

 Ask me how many times my heart has been broken and I will tell you to look in the sky and count the stars. 

Unknown

 If someone hurts you, betrays you, or breaks your heart, forgive them for they have helped you learn about trust and the importance of being cautious to who you open you heart to. 

Unknown

 If your love does not work with that person, it just means that someone else loves you more. 

Unknown

 When love is lost, do not bow your head in sadness; instead keep your head up high and gaze into heaven for that is where your broken heart has been sent to heal. 

Unknown

 Sometimes you think you've gotten over a person, but when you see him smile you suddenly realize you're just pretending you're over him to ease the pain of knowing that he will never be yours. 

Unknown

 Sometimes the person you really need is the one you didn't think you wanted. 

Unknown

 Moving on is simple, it's what you leave behind that makes it so difficult. 

Unknown

 You don't die from a broken heart.. you only wish you did. 

Unknown

 I just realized, it's so lonely being free. 

Unknown

 Love that remains longest in your heart is the one that is not returned. 

Unknown

 Look in my eyes and you will find me, but look in my heart and you will find you. 

Unknown

 When you are in love and you get hurt, it's like a cut... it will heal, but there will always be a scar. 

Unknown

 You can close your eyes to things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to things you don't want to feel. 

Unknown

Quotes about broken heart

 How do you know love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine, and he or she has not called the police - it's gone. 

Marlene Dietrich

 When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve. 

Oscar Wilde

 Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. 

Washington Irving

 There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief... and unspeakable love. 

Washington Irving

 Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains silent. 

Giacomo Casanova

 He who has never experienced hurt, cannot experience true love. 

Tristan J. Loo

 Brains are like hearts - they go where they are appreciated. 

Robert McNamara

 There are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field than their own hearts in their closet. 

Charles Caleb Colton

 Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. 

Norman Vincent Peale

 There were many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts being broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream-whatever that dream might be. 

Pearl Buck

 We all have our 'good old days' tucked away inside our hearts, and we return to them in daydreams like cats to favorite armchairs. 

Brian Carter

 Love is like a puzzle. When you're in love, all the pieces fit but when your heart gets broken, it takes a while to get everything back together. 

Unknown

 Sometimes I wish I were a little kid again, skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts. 

Unknown

 What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you. 

Richard Wilbur

 There are things that we don't want to happen but have to accept, things we don't want to know but have to learn, and people we can'' live without but have to let go. 

Author Unknown

 They say that if you love someone you should let them go, but they never say what to do when they don't come back. 

Anonymous

 The flame of love is now just a cold loneliness. 

Uniek Swain

 They say that time heals all wounds but all it's done so far is give me more time to think about how much I miss you. 

Ezbeth Wilder

 Trying to forget someone you love is like trying to remember someone you never knew. 

Anonymous

 It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all. 

Alfred Lord Tennyson

 Breaking up. It happens kind of suddenly. One minute, you're holding hands walking down the street, and the next minute, you're lying on the floor crying and all the good CDs are missing. 

Kennedy Kasares

 Hearts will never be made practical until they are made unbreakable. 

Tinman (Wizard of Oz)

 Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy. 

Drew Barrymore

 Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Kahlil Gibran

 I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as I lived. 

Margaret Mitchell

 Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing. 

Anais Nin

 Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned... 

William Butler Yeats

 It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all. 

Samuel Butler

 Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. 

Washington Irving

 Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. 

Charlie Brown, Peanuts

 Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair. 

William Blake

 Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.

Javan

 The hottest love has the coldest end. 

Socrates

 Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. 

Anonymous

 Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Kahlil Gibran

 I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I'll break up with someone on purpose. 

Rita Rudner

 It takes a couple seconds to say Hello, but forever to say Goodbye. 

Anonymous

 I never can love another As long as life may stand. No maid the wide world over Shall hold this heart or hand. 

Anonymous

 Take away love and our earth is a tomb. 

Robert Browning

 And I shall find some girl perhaps, and a better one than you, With eyes as wise, but kindlier, and lips as soft, but true, and I dare say she will do. 

Rupert Brooke

 Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together. 

Anonymous

 The heart was made to be broken. 

Oscar Wilde

 It hurts to breathe because every breath I take proves I can't live without you.

Anonymous

 To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful. 

Bess Myerson

 A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses.

Anonymous

 Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. 

Marcus Aurelius

 The greatest pain that comes from love is loving someone you can never have.

Anonymous

 Trying to forget someone you love is like trying to remember someone you never knew. 

Anonymous

 The stupidest mistake in life is thinking the one who hurt you the most, won't hurt you again. 

Anonymous

 The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. 

Anonymous

 Love is unconditional, relationships are not. 

Grant Gudmundson

 For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, "It might have been." 

John Greenleaf Whittier

 There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. 

Tennessee Williams

 Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. 

Herman Hesse

 Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing. 

Anais Nin

 Our greatest joy and our greatest pain comes in our relationships with others. 

Stephen R. Covey

 Love doesn't just sit there like a stone; it has to be made - like bread, remade all the time, made new. 

Ursula LeGuin

 Once the trust goes out of a relationship, it's really no fun lying to 'em anymore. 

Norm from Cheers