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Because my heat was too full of appreciation for what my friends-- my real friends-- had done for me.
Sep 10, 2025
Those who can't give friendship will rarely receive it and never hold it.
Ready for us to get it on, aint got a love to call steady.. Hope it aint like that for long, I'll be your friend if you let me
Thy friendship makes us fresh.
The friend who cares makes it clear that whatever happens in the external world, being present to each other is what really matters. In fact, it matters more than pain, illness, or even death.
Real friends tell you the truth...even when you want them to shut up.
We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone; our country, our friends, have a share in us.
Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.
Friendship is the holiest of gifts; God can bestow nothing more sacred upon us! It enhances every joy, mitigates every pain. Everyone can have a friend, Who himself knows how to be a friend.
Side by side or miles apart, real friends are always close to the heart.
Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it.
You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you.
Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.
I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life.
I have a lot more real friends, than friends that I'm talking to on the Internet. That's not cool, not safe, not fun and most likely not real. Everything is just better when you're not so wrapped up in that. I just think it's lame.
The biggest hurdle is figuring out who your friends are. Your real friends.
Ponder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship; but when you have decided to admit him, welcome him with all your heart and soul. Speak as boldly with him as with yourself.
Between friends there is no need of justice.
Let your best be for your friend.
A real friendship is a light thing. A real friend holds you loosely.
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were the easiest for his feet.
Where there are friends there is wealth.
You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.
It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best.
One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
For he, indeed, who looks into the face of a friend beholds, as it were, a copy of himself.
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
To make real friends you have to put yourself out there. Sometimes people will let you down, but you can't let that stop you. If you get hurt, you just pick yourself up, dust off your feelings, and try again.
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
I don't know when we made [10 Things I Hate About You] that we ever thought it would last in popularity as long as it has, but I think that speaks to the strength of the bond of the cast when we were making it. I think you can tell that we adored each other and that we were real friends. To this day, Joe Gordon-Levitt is a good friend, and obviously Heath [Ledger] was a great guy.
Friendship must never be buried under the weight of misunderstanding.
Swarmers run the risk of skittering like water bugs on the surface of life. By being quickly and constantly connected, they can avoid deep contact in time-consuming and meaningful ways... You're flitting from one place to another. You're more likely to pursue superficial engagements rather than deep pursuits. It contributes to this certain MTV approach to life where you engage in something for a few minutes and then there's a commercial... You have to get a grip on reality. Unless you know what is real-what is a real friendship and relationship-neither can have an effect on you.
Love the people that wanna see you be successful and help you expecting nothing in return. That’s priceless. Those are real friends.
The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.
Far as I'm concerned, friendship between black and white don't mean that much 'cause it usually ain't on a equal basis. ... Maybe one day whites and blacks can be real friends, but right now the country ain't built that way.
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
And I just hope that I'm forgiven for carin bout how they livin and loanin a little money and keepin em outta prison I aint lyin in my verses, I'm just tellin you the basics of growin up wit ya friends and becomin the one that made it
I work in the margins. The margins are where you'll find the nice people. You'll find real friends. You'll find honesty. You'll find integrity. You'll find relationships that will last you for a lifetime and will be there to support you in the bad times, which are the only relationships that matter anyway. Relationships that are all about power and money aren't worth having.
Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.
Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.
Of all the felicities, the most charming is that of a firm and gentle friendship. It sweetens all our cares, dispels our sorrows, and counsels us in all extremities. Nay, if there were no other comfort in it than the pare exercise of so generous a virtue, even for that single reason a man would not be without it; it is a sovereign antidote against all calamities - even against the fear of death itself.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
Friends should have all things in common.
One man envies the success in life of another, and hates him in secret; nor is he willing to give him good advice when he is consulted, except it be by some wonderful effort of good feeling, and there are, alas, few such men in the world. A real friend, on the other hand, exults in his friend?s happiness, rejoices in all his joys, and is ready to afford him the best advice.
Agreement in likes and dislikes - this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship.
Even at age 10, I already knew that I was different from most people. My anxiety disorder was still years from being diagnosed, but it affected me quite deeply. I was too afraid to speak out in class, too nervous to make real friends.
I don't think life offers any greater experience than the joyful sense of recognition when one finds in a new acquaintance a real friend, or when an old relationship deepens into friendship, or when one finds an old friendship intact despite the passage of years and many absences.
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.