Let us remember that desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions. In addition, it is our actions and our desires that cause us to become something, whether a true friend, a gifted teacher, or one who has qualified for eternal life.
In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only like doing him good better than having him do me good, but also would rather have him do good to himself than to me; he does me most good when he does himself good.
How rare were the tears of a dragon. We once lived in paradise and because of the corruption of an angel disgused as a dragon, all the world was cast into darkness. Now, as humans, we shed many tears-for what was lost, for what might of been, and for the end of friendships. Goodbye my true friends.
True friends share everything, except the past before they met.
True friends define each other.
A true friend never asks you to feed their imaginary fish. Or fertilize their imaginary crops.
Every true friend is a glimpse of God.
True friends say good things behind your back and bad things to your face.
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 healing, not curing. . . that is a friend who cares.
A prince is also esteemed when he is a true friend and a true enemy.
It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
[Gonturan] is a true friend, but a friend with thoughts of her own, and the thoughts of others are dangerous.
Most of us know someone who would say, 'If you want to be my friend, you'll have to accept my values. ' A true friend doesn't ask us to choose between the gospel and his or her friendship. . . . A true friend strengthens us to stay on the strait and narrow path.
We seek opinions that are likely to support what we want to be true.
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
True friendship resists time, distance and silence.
True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means 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.
A True Friend who leaves heart felt messages, can be a lighthouse to others, sharing light and truth, which comes from their heart.
Till man destroys "self" he is no true friend of God.