Friendship Garden Quotes:

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

- Marcel Proust

source: Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

topic: Friendship, Happiness, Happy, Making Friends, Bff

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Nature, Friendship Garden

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

topic: Love, Friendship, Anniversary, Say I Love You, Special Friendship

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Life, Friendship, Marriage, Distance Friendship, Easy Friendship

A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.

- Lois Wyse

source: Lois Wyse (1996). “Women Make the Best Friends: A Celebration”

topic: Friendship, Life Is Short, Good Friend, Bff, Insane World

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

- George Washington

topic: Friendship, Inspiration, 4th Of July, Making Friends, Courteous

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Good Morning, Meaningful Friendship, Inspiring Friends

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

- Donna Roberts

topic: Friendship, Song, Heart, Songs And Friendship, Losing Friends

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

- Bernard Meltzer

topic: Friendship, Thank You, True Friend, Impossible To Forget, Making Friends

I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Art, Philosophy, Men, New Friendship, Songs And Friendship

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

- Leo Buscaglia

topic: Inspirational, Best Friend, Friendship, Bff, Songs And Friendship

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.

- Douglas Pagels

source: Douglas Pagels (2006). “Everyone Should Have a Book Like This to Share with a Special Friend”, p.7, Blue Mountain Arts, Inc.

topic: Relationship, Making Friends, Bff, Meeting New Friends, Inspirational Friendship

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Life, Friendship, Happiness, Benevolent, Not Friends

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Positive, Thinking, May, Bff, Friends Forever

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

- George Eliot

topic: Love, Friendship, Relationship, Female Friends, Inspirational Relationship

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

- Robert Breault

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend, Bff, Inspirational Friendship

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

- Toni Morrison

topic: Friendship, Real Friends, Men, Bff, Good Friendship

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

- George MacDonald

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Encouragement, Special Friend, Just Thinking Of You

A garden is a friend you can visit any time.

- Okakura Kakuzo

topic: Garden, Gardening, Garden Love, Friendship Garden

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

- William Penn

topic: Friendship, True Friend, Adventure, Songs And Friendship, Special Friend

But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one's deepest as well as one's most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely. Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.

- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

source: A Life for a Life ch. 16 (1859)

topic: Friendship, Kindness, Blessing, Female Friends, Inspirational Relationship

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

- Laurence J. Peter

topic: Friendship, Best Friend, Jobs, Making Friends, Bff

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

- Epicurus

topic: Friendship, Relationship, Leadership, Lasting Friendship, Great Friendship

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Friendship, Happiness, Real Friends, Songs And Friendship, Female Friends

Oooh I get by with a little help from my friends.

- Joe Cocker

topic: Friendship, Littles, Helping, Songs And Friendship, Meaning Of Friendship

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

- Ethel Barrymore

topic: Friendship, Needs, Making Friends, Inspirational Friendship, Friend In Need

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.

- Henri Nouwen

source: "Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life". Book by Henri Nouwen, 1974.

topic: Love, Friendship, Pain, Bff, Female Friends

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

- James F. Byrnes

topic: Friendship, Beautiful, Self, Songs And Friendship, Meaningful Friendship

The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.

- Barbara Kingsolver

source: Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “High Tide in Tucson”, p.88, Faber & Faber

topic: Friendship, Best Friend, Birthday, Making Friends, My Friendship

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend, Bff, Life Love And Friendship

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Enemy, One Friend, Friends And Enemies

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

- George Washington

topic: Friendship, Confidence, Inspiration, Bff, Courteous

Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.

- Henri Nouwen

topic: Pain, Being Alone, Hands, Bff, Female Friends

A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

- Donna Roberts

topic: Friendship, Song, Memories, Bff, Songs And Friendship

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

- Mencius

topic: Two, Mind, Body, Making Friends, Bff

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

- George Santayana

topic: Life, Motivational, Friendship, One Friend, Party Invitations

Friendship is Love without his wings!

- Lord Byron

topic: Love, Friendship, Real Friends, Without Friends, Friend Love

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

- Plutarch

topic: Friendship, Change, Real Friends, Inspiring Friends, Starting Anew

He who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

- Omar Khayyam

source: Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald (1912). “Rubáiyát: English, French, German, Italian, and Dutch translations comparatively arranged in accordance with the text of Edward Fitzgerald's version, with further selections, notes, biographies, bibliographies, and other material”

topic: Friendship, Enemy, Few Friends, One Friend, Friends And Enemies

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

- Clifton Fadiman

topic: Real, Real Friends, Numbers, Songs And Friendship, Inspiring Friends

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen

- Rod McKuen

topic: Friendship, Real Friends, Waiting, My Friendship, Losing Friendship

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

- Margaret Mead

source: Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

topic: Inspirational, Life, Friendship, Social Democracy, Social Entrepreneurship

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

- Ray Bradbury

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship, Making Friends, Inspirational Friendship

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

source: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1872). “The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Author's complete ed”, p.638

topic: Real, Hands, Old Friends, Bff, Homecoming

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

topic: Friendship, Real Friends, Dating, Without Friends, Wearing A Mask

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

- Robert Breault

topic: Lying, Real, Cherish, Wonderful Friendship, Friendship Garden

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

- Dag Hammarskjold

topic: Friendship, Loneliness, Being Alone, Friend In Need, Easy Friendship