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I knew immediately that she was going to be in my life forever. I didn't know in what capacity, but I knew that I had found someone who was going to be close to me for a long time. We became great friends fast.
Sep 10, 2025
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.
To my mind, the only possible pet is a cow. Cows love you. They will listen to your problems and never ask a thing in return. They will be your friends forever. And when you get tired of them, you can kill and eat them. Perfect.
If you can't be honest with your friends and colleagues and loved ones, then what is life all about?
My closest friends in the league are Dirk Nowitzki and Rex Chapman. Although I think Michael Finley and I will be friends forever.
In all my ways of seeing - may I use new glasses, a telescope and a microscope. And may I always allow myself to see a circumstance through the tender hearts of my friends.
Mr. Brooks and I have been friends forever. He is in seventh heaven with his new success on Broadway.
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
I am tortured too. I am tortured by belly fat and magazine covers about how to please everyone but myself. I am tortured by sheep who click on anything that will guarantee a ten-pound loss in one week. Sheep who will get on their knees if it means someone will like them more. I am tortured by my inability to want to hang out with desperate sheep. I am tortured by goddamned yearbooks full of bullshit. I met you when. I'll miss the times. I'll keep in touch. Best friends forever. Is this okay? Are you all right? Are you tortured too?
Obviously all of us have thought about Vietnam, particularly in my generation in Australia that were part of conscription and fought there. Our friends came back, forever changed. So there were a lot of questions.
The best mirror is an old friend.
Friends are God's apology for relations.
I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words.
Times change, people change, thoughts about good and evil change, about true and false. But what always remains fast and steady is the affection that your friends feel for you, those who always have your best interest at heart.
As long as you're around, your life is too. So just as you shower love and affection and attention on the husbands, wives, parents, children and forever friends who sorround you, you have to do so equally with your life, because it's yours, it's you, and it's always there rooting for you, cheering you on, even when you feel like you can't do it. I gave up on my life for a while, but what I've learned is that even when that happens and especially when that happens, life never gives up on you.
When true friends meet in adverse hour; 'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
Misanthropes have some admirable if paradoxical virtues. It is no exaggeration to say that we are among the nicest people you are likely to meet. Because good manners build sturdy walls, our distaste for intimacy makes us exceedingly cordial "ships that pass in the night." As long as you remain a stranger we will be your friend forever.
We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.
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.
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
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...that is a friend who cares.
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.
Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
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.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
You Too? I thought I was the only one.
A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
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.
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.