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Don't over analyze your relationships.
Sep 10, 2025
A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are. Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget. A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer.
When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.
If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you.
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em.
If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.
How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em.
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.
How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em.” ― How Many, How Much by Shel Silverstein “Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
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 glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
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.
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.
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.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
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.
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
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.
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.
Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
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.
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple.
A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.