A Quotes
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“A friend is some one who even if you have to part ways for whatever compulsions, and you have to stop interacting, will not ask any questions, will keep respecting and trusting and wishing for your well being. And if you ever return, will talk as if you had never left. Mere presence somewhere will be enough. Such a friend will be rich in understanding.”
“A friend is somebody who loves us with understanding, as well as emotion.”
“A friend is somebody who says the same things to your face that they would say if you're not in the room.”
“A friend is someone I complain to about my other friends.”
“A friend is someone that asks, 'how are you,' and really wants to hear the truth.”
“A friend is someone who allows you distance but is never far away.”
“A friend is someone who can brighten your day with a simple smile, when others try to do it with a thousand words.”
“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.”
“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.”
“A friend is someone who helps you up when you're down, and if they can't, they lay down beside you and listen.”
“A friend is someone who inspires, who challenges, who sends you in search of some truer sense of yourself.”
Source: The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music
“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
“A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.”
“A friend is someone who knows where all your bodies are buried. Because they're the ones who helped you put them there." And sometimes, if you're really lucky, they help you dig them back up.”
“A friend is someone who knows you and loves you for what you were and who you are, and who also shares your hopes and dreams for who you can become.”
Source: Life's Little Treasure Book on Friendship
“A friend is someone who makes you a better version of yourself just by being who they are. Their existence is your inspiration.”
“A friend is someone who never judges you.”
“A friend is someone who sees you. And I see you. I get why you struggle. I do, too. If you didn’t, you’d be a complete sociopath. But in the end, the world needs bad men to keep other bad men from the door.”
Source: Assassins Anonymous
“A friend is someone who stays by your side all through the troubles he's caused you.”
“A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out.”
“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.”
“A friend is someone, who upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experiencing the pain than to have to watch their friend suffer.”
“A friend is someone who walks into a room when everyone else is walking out.”
“A friend is someone whose face you can see in the dark.”
Source: The Secret Language of Girls
“A friend is someone with whom I can reveal many parts of me, even those I am meeting for the first time.”
“A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.”
“A friend is someone you can call in the middle of the night when your man is gone, or you wish he would go, or you suspect your cellulite is winning - or even just to prove to yourself that there is someone you can call in the middle of the night.”
“A friend is that guy who does not give the least for your money but worries about your progress. We do not see our best friends in this world; we only see them entering into a beautiful state of being in another dimension.”
“A friend is the hope of the heart.”
Source: Essays and Lectures
“A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers.”
“A friend is the wax that keeps the flame lit, an enemy is the wind that blows it out.”
“A friend is way less likely than a boyfriend or girlfriend to make us pretend to be someone we are not; or that our family is a good family, or way better, or way less crazy or dysfunctional than it actually is.”
Source: On Friendship: A Satirical Essay
“A friend is worth all hazards we can run.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins
“A friend is, as it were, a second self.”
Source: M. Tullii Ciceronis, De Senectute Et De Amicitiâ
“A friend knows how to allow for mere quantity in your talk, and only replies to the quality.”
Source: A MODERN INSTANCE (American Classics Series)
“A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.”
“A friend loves at all times.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“A friend loves at all times.
-Proverbs 17:17”
Source: The Holy Bible: King James Version
“A friend loves you for your intelligence, a mistress for your charm, but your family's love is unreasoning; you were born into it and are of its flesh and blood. Nevertheless it can irritate you more than any group of people in the world.”
“A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation.”
“A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.”
Source: Letter to My Daughter
“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”
“A friend moving away is often hard because of what it often represents. People move for all sorts of reasons…but whatever the reason, it is another way of reminding us that however close our friendship is, it’s not close enough to make someone think twice about upping sticks and moving off…The family goes. You stay. That’s the deal…People will move for family or economics, but no one moves for friends. All this underlines the fact that there is a commitment that comes with family that is lacking in the way most people think about friendship.”
Source: 7 Myths about Singleness
“A friend must not be injured, even in jest.”
“A friend need not be kept either within sight or within reach. A friend must be allowed the freedom to find and follow his own path.
If one is fortunate, those paths will for a time join. But if the paths separate, it is comforting to know that a friend still graces the universe with his skills, and his viewpoint, and his presence.
For if one is remembered by a friend, one is never truly gone.”
Source: Thrawn
“A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.”
Source: The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank
“A friend of Diagoras pointed out an expensive display of votive gifts and said, 'You think the gods have no care for man? Why, you can see from all these votive pictures here how many people have escaped the fury of storms at sea by praying to the gods who have brought them safe to harbor.'
To which Diagoras replied, 'Yes, indeed, but where are the pictures of all those who suffered shipwreck and perished in the waves?”
“A friend of everyone is a friend of no one”
“A friend of mine - a cameraman at MTV - lost a lot of weight from cycling, and I thought Id try it, too, thinking whenever you look at a cyclist they all look super-skinny, so hey, why not? But then it turned into such a psychologically satisfying thing.”
“A friend of mine always says, ‘Women love me for the man I’m not.’”
Source: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again