A hug is the perfect gift, one size fits all, everyone likes them and no-one cares if it is given back.
What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color - oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples.
When I say that I love you, I don't say it out of habit or to make conversation. I say it to remind you that you're the best thing that's ever happened to me.
When grandpa was ill and could've died, I would have swapped all my record sales so he could get well. He is the reason I am a singer. He was my best friend growing up.
A good friend and a bad friend are like a perfume-seller and a blacksmith: The perfume-seller might give you some perfume as a gift, or you might buy some from him, or at least you might smell its fragrance. As for the blacksmith, he might singe your clothes, and at the very least you will breathe in the fumes of the furnace.
A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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.
I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.
We went with the St. Lawrence Experience, which is run by Joe Babbitt, who is a close friend now. We went out there for 10 days and we had the best week of our lives, and we've been going back since. We've been back three times now.
He that is thy friend indeed, - He will help thee in thy need: - If thou sorrow, he will weep; - If you wake, he cannot sleep; - Thus of every grief in heart - He with thee doth bear a part.
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
Doesn't this quote just call up feelings of comfort and home? Comparing friendship to the nest a bird lives in and builds with loving determination reminds me that having a solid relationship takes work and dedication. And yet, when you succeed in crafting a friendship, you can rest in the comfort it provides.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
You have the rest of your lives to catch up together. After all, soulmates always end up together. [. . . ] Ey-girlfriends are easily forgotten. Best friends stay with you for ever.
If we merely try to impress people and get people interested in us, we will never have many true, sincere friends. Friends, real friends, are not made that way.
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.