Touching Friendship Quotes:

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

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

- Henri Nouwen

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

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

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Inspirational, Life, Friendship, Makin Money, Bff

The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Expression, Typical, Would Be, Importunate, Making Friends

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

- A. A. Milne

topic: Love, Friendship, Positive, Tigger, Bff

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

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

- Albert Camus

topic: Love, Friendship, Happy, Bff, Songs And Friendship

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

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

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

- Woodrow Wilson

topic: Friendship, Patience, Real Friends, Meaningful Friendship, Inspirational Friendship

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

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

- John Churton Collins

topic: Friendship, Adversity, Prosperity, Meaningful Friendship, Imaginary Friend

Friendship is not something you can learn in college or some learning institution, no one knows how to become friends you just become but if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship you haven't learned anything

- Muhammad Ali

topic: Friendship, College, Institutions, Meaning Of Friendship, Loyal Friend

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

- Samuel Butler

source: Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

topic: Friendship, Money, Funny Friend, Making Friends, Bff

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Friendship, True Love, Real Friends, Making Friends, New Friendship

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

- Anais Nin

topic: Love, Inspirational, Friendship, New Friendship, Special Friendship

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have nonsense respected.

- Charles Lamb

source: "The Works of Charles Lamb".

topic: Friendship, Inspiring, Funny Best Friend, Bff, Cute Friendship

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

- Henry Ford

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

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

- Marlene Dietrich

topic: Friendship, Best Friend, Cute Relationship, Making Friends, Bff

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

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

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

- Khalil Gibran

source: Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

topic: Best Friend, Friendship, Sweet, Songs And Friendship, Special Friendship