A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity. |
The language of friendship is not words but meanings. |
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. |
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself. |
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. |
True friends stab you in the front. |
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. |
I felt it shelter to speak to you. |
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all 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 with a breath of kindness blow the rest away. |
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. |