While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.
If we treated ourselves as well as we treated our best friend, can you imagine?
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Your friend is your needs answered.
Longer Version:
Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.
Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself -- and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to -- letting a person be what he really is.
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Longer Version:
The language of friendship is not words , but rather meanings. It is an intelligence above language.
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
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.
Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
