friends

1. A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
   ~ Arabian Proverb

2. The people with whom we travel in life are much more important than the places to which we travel.
   ~ Ronald Selby Wright

3. Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
   Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.
   ~William Shakespeare

4. Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
   ~ Emily Kimbrough

5. Friendship is the marriage of the soul.
   ~ Voltaire

6. A friend is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
   ~ Aristotle

7. Friendship is a word the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.
   ~ Augustine Birrell

8. Point out your friends to me and I will tell you who I think you are.
   ~ Greek Proverb

9. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion... who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing - and face with us the reality of our powerlessness - that is the friend who really cares.
   ~ Henri Nouwen

10. The friend who understands you, creates you.
    ~ Romain Rolland

11. A true friend is the gift of God, and he only who made hearts can unite them.
    ~ Robert South

12. Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance: they make the latitudes and longitudes.
    ~ Henry David Thoreau

13. I'm so glad you are here...
    It helps me realize how beautiful my world is.
    ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

14. That is the best ~ to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.
    ~ Gloria Vanderbilt

15. Be a friend to thyself and others will too.
    ~ Thomas Fuller

16. We do not wish for friends to feed and clothe our bodies, but to do the like office to our spirits.
    ~ Henry David Thoreau

17. We have not made ourselves; we are the gift of the living God to one another.
    ~ Reine Duell Bethany

18. Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person: having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them out.
    ~ George Eliot

19. There isn't a single person on earth you couldn't love once you've heard their story.
    ~ Kownacki

20. It is in the shelter of one another that we live.
    ~ Irish Proverb

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