Friendship Garden Quotes

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold.

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

Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter.

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

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

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few.

The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth.

True friends stab you in the front.

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

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.

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.

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

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.

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

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

Oh, the comfort, 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 a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

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

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen

Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.

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.

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.

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

You Too? I thought I was the only one.

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

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

I get by with a little help from my friends.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

He who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

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.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

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

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.