A Quotes
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“A friend is a bird who can sing along with the songs of your heart.”
“A friend is a bird who can understand you and sing along with you even when you lose your voice.”
“A friend is a family.”
“A friend is a friend forever
And a good one will never leave, never”
“A friend is a friend who continues to love you and like you when you don't love him or like him any more.”
“A friend is a gift you give yourself.”
“A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.”
“A friend is a mirror. You unknowingly see yourself in him or her.”
“A FRIEND IS A PERSON . . . With whom you can be sincere. . . . To whom you never need to defend yourself. . . . On whom you can depend whether present or absent. . . . With whom you never need pretend. . . . To whom you can reveal yourself without fear of betrayal. . . . Who does not feel she owns you because you are her friend. . . . Who will not selfishly use you because she has your confidence. I WOULD HAVE SUCH A FRIEND. . . AND I WOULD BE SUCH A FRIEND. I DO HAVE SUCH A FRIEND!”
“A friend is a person who goes around saying nice things about you behind your back.”
“A friend is a person whom you can love without judging and share your thoughts without fearing.”
“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.”
Source: Essays, First Series
“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.”
“A friend is a possession we earn, not a gift.”
“A friend is a possession we earn, not a gift. ....The Lord has declared that those who serve him and keep his commandments are called his servants. After they have been tested and tried and are found faithful and true in all things, they are called no longer servants, but friends. His friends are the ones he will take into his kingdom and with whom he will associate in an eternal inheritance.”
“A friend is a powerful word and it's not something you should can call someone easily. A friend someone who has become your family, someone that you love, and someone that you will always cherish forever. In my novels, that's the powerful definition I want to teach people on what a friend is, especially after having met the most wonderful people in my life.”
“A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.”
“A friend is a second self.”
Source: The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle
“A friend is always good to have, but a lover's kiss is better than angels raining down on me.”
“A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience.”
“A friend is an honorable word.”
“A friend is another I.”
“A friend is he who can feel your heart's beating and dance with it when it is joyful, cry with it when it is torn, and inspire when it is in need.”
“A friend is like a good bra: hard to find, comfortable, supportive, always lifts you up, makes you look better, never lets you down or leaves you hanging, and always close to your heart.”
“A friend is like a guardian angel who lifts you up when your wings forget how to fly and carries you through life’s challenges with unwavering support.”
Source: Twenty + One - 21 Short Stories - Series II
“A friend is like a rope, you trust it until it snaps.”
“A friend is like anything else. A dog, a plant. You ignore them and they tend to die on you.”
“A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.”
Source: The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)
“A friend is more concerned about helping people than getting credit. A friend cares. A friend loves. A friend listens. And a friend reaches out.”
“A friend is more than a therapist or confessor, even though a friend can sometimes heal us and offer us God's forgiveness. A friend is that other person with whom we can share our solitude, our silence, and our prayer. A friend is that other person with whom we can look at a tree and say, "Isn't that beautiful," or sit on the beach and silently watch the sun disappear under the horizon. With a friend we don't have to say or do something special. With a friend we can be still and know that God is there with both of us.”
“A friend is more to be longed for than the light; I speak of a genuine one. And wonder not: for it were better for us that the sun should be extinguished, than that we should be deprived of friends; better to live in darkness, than to be without friends”
Source: A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church: St. Chrysostom: Homilies on Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Thessalonians, Timothy, Titus, and Philemon
“A friend is never alarmed for us in the right place.”
Source: Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides ...
“A friend is never an imposition.”
“A friend is not an enabler; love doesn’t always look like agreement.”
Source: On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
“A friend is not just a companion but a force that can either uplift your soul and lead you toward light or divert your path and pull you into darkness.”
“A friend is not only someone who you can confide in, it is someone who can mirror the trust you have shown by confiding in you as well.”
“A friend is not the shadow that mimics you, but the one who casts all shadows away.”
“A friend is nothing but a known enemy.”
“A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.”
“A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.”
“A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.”
“A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln
“A friend is one who joyfully sings with you when you are on the mountaintop, and silently walks beside you through the valley.”
“A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.”
“A friend is one who says, I've time, when others have to rush.”
“A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.”
“A friend is one who withholds judgment no matter how long you have his unanswered letter.”
“A friend is one with whom you are comfortable, to whom you are loyal, through whom you are blessed, and for whom you are grateful.”
“A friend is our alter ego.”
“A friend is simply one soul in two bodies.”