Thought-Provoking Quotations: Friendships

After the friendship of God, a friend’s affection is the greatest treasure here below. - author unknown

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. - Churton Collins

Nobody has so many friends that he can afford to lose one. - Edward Abbey

What’s friendship, when all’s done, but the giving and taking of wounds? - Frederick Buechner

Your best friend is he who brings out the best that is within you. - Henry Ford

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. - author unknown

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart. - Eleanor Roosevelt

A friend is a person with whom you dare to be yourself. - author unknown

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

When we honestly ask ourselves which persons 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 bereave-ment, 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 Nouwen

Some people come into our lives and quickly go; others stay for awhile, leave footprints on our hearts and we are never quite the same. - author unknown

If you treat a person as he is, he will stay as he is; but if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be, he will become what he ought to be and could be. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A true and genuine friend, one of those very few special persons who enter my life, is one with whom I can share my brokenness without feeling cheapened. - a Dear Abby reader

Is any pleasure on earth as great as a circle of Christian friends by a fire? - C. S. Lewis

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence. - George Eliot

True friendship is one soul shared by two bodies. - Mexican proverb

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