Loving Friends Quotes:

I found that the breakthroughs for me, as I went through school, came through sexuality, explorations of consciousness, reading, loving, friends, time in nature, and through psychedelic experiences.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Reading, School, Loving Friends

The discourses of the table among true loving friends are held in strict silence.

- Thomas Browne

topic: Silence, Loving Friends, Tables

A dog is adorable and noble, a dog is a true and loving friend. A dog is also a hedonist.

- Mary Oliver

source: Mary Oliver (2013). “Dog Songs: Deluxe Edition”, p.51, Penguin

topic: Dog, Adorable, Loving Friends, Hedonist

My golf-loving friend Bob Hope asked me what my handicap was, so I told him - the Congress.

- Ronald Reagan

topic: Golf, Loving Friends, Bob

If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. We are advertis'd by our loving friends.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Loving Friends, Appeals, Intellect

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

- Laozi

topic: Love, Relationship, Positive, Touch Someone, Courage To Change

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

- Maya Angelou

source: FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 15, 2014

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Way In Life, Make Me Feel Better

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

- Elbert Hubbard

topic: Friendship, Love You, Optimistic, Inspirational Friendship, One Friend

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

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

- Baltasar Gracian

topic: Friendship, Thankful, Real, Good Friendship, Good Fortune

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

Loving friends let kindness grow in their hearts, creating a oneness with their souls.

- Tom Baker

topic: Kindness, Heart, Oneness, Loving Friends

My best chosen friend, companion, guide, to walk through life, Linked hand-in-hand, two equal, loving friends, true husband and true wife.

- Charles Gavan Duffy

topic: Husband, Wedding Anniversary, Hands, Loving Friends

If you can walk with the crowd and keep your virtue, or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute with 60 seconds worth of distance run- Yours is the earth and everything that's in it, And-which is more-you'll be a man my son.

- Rudyard Kipling

source: "If - " st. 4 (1910)

topic: Life, Running, Hurt, Loving Friends, Unforgiving

Health is a great blessing--competence obtained by honorable industry is a great blessing--and a great blessing it is to have kind, faithful, and loving friends and relatives; but, that the greatest of all blessings, as it is the most ennobling of all privileges, is to be indeed a Christian.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

source: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.566

topic: Christian, Blessing, Faithful, Loving Friends

Between loving friends there need be no secrets . . . the trusting heart is always safe with another who truly cares.

- Joan Walsh Anglund

topic: Heart, Secret, Needs, Loving Friends

My loving friend, you see, my life was never given a foundation, no one was able to imagine what it would want to become. In Venice there stands the so-called Ca del Duca, a princely foundation, on which later the most wretched tenement came to be built. With me it's the opposite: the beautiful arched elevations of my spirit rest on the most tentative beginning; a wooden scaffolding, a few boards....Is that why I feel inhibited in raising the nave, the tower to which the weight of the great bells is to be hoisted (by angels, who else could do it)?

- Rainer Maria Rilke

topic: Beautiful, Angel, Opposites, Elevation, Scaffolding

I am generally cast as the dependable, affable, loving, friend-wife-girlfriend.

- Rashida Jones

topic: Girlfriend, Wife, Dependable, Loving Friends, Affable

As a tender and loving friend is grieved at the unkindness of his friend... so is it with this tender and loving Spirit, who hath chosen our hearts for a habitation to dwell in.

- John Owen

topic: Heart, Spirit, Sin, Loving Friends

Thoughts mold your features. Thoughts lift your soul heavenward or drag you toward hell. … As nothing reveals character like the company we like and keep, so nothing foretells futurity like the thoughts over which we brood. … To have the approval of your conscience when you are alone with your thoughts is like being in the company of true and loving friends. To merit your own self-respect gives strength to character. Conscience is the link that binds your soul to the spirit of God.

- David O. McKay

topic: Character, Self, Giving, Loving Friends, Spirit Of God

I had fun, but I didn't really have anyone i particularly loved except for loving friends. But I have a certain amount of faith that it will come.

- Edie Sedgwick

topic: Fun, Certain, Had Fun, Loving Friends, I Had Fun

On the other hand, I have never before so learned to know the Lord Jesus as a tender, loving Friend, who never forsakes us or casts us off when we are bad, but rather helps us to gain the mastery over sin.

- Corrie Ten Boom

source: Corrie ten Boom (2012). “A Prisoner and Yet...”, p.88, CLC Publications

topic: Jesus, Hands, Mastery, Loving Friends

What greater restoratives have we poor mortals than a good meal taken in the company of loving friends?

- Flora Thompson

source: Flora Thompson, H. J. Massingham (2009). “Lark Rise to Candleford”, p.506, David R. Godine Publisher

topic: Taken, Meals, Eating, Loving Friends, Good Meals

You get so much more out of life by being supportive and having loving friends who are there for you. Good friendships can make your heart light; it can make you feel giddy; it can make you feel like when you fall in love.

- Poppy Delevingne

topic: Falling In Love, Heart, Good Friend, Good Friendship, Loving Friends