Motivational Quotes: Friends
Posted: Friday, March 14, 2008
by Jeff Brown
Inner Projection
Friends can be colleagues, peers, classmates, even a stranger with a kindly gesture or act whom you never see again, for a friend can be an acquaintance. But the biggest and best friends often times are our spouses, children, parents, and grandparents, as well as other relations.
A friend can be someone you know, like, or trust, but the biggest and best friends are those who we build a lasting, solid bond with or those who we are allied in a struggle or cause, a comrade in arms raising children, supporting spouses, brother, sister, mother, father. These are truly people who support or sympathize with us and we with them.
As friends, we are lovers, peacemakers, victors of the vanquished heart, advocates of storm trodden lives, promoter of all things emotional torn asunder. We are there in the middle of the night, travelers to the far reaches of the earth, relinquishers of the selfish and self-serving at the behest of our lovers, our givers, our receivers of us, our advocates, our friends.
Enjoy.
"Hold a true friend with both hands."-- Nigerian proverb
"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget."-- G. Randolf
"Good friendships are fragile things and require as much care as any other fragile and precious thing."-- Randolph Bourne
"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."-- Walter Winchell
"A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway."-- Fr. Jerome Cummings
"Friendship is one mind in two bodies."-- Mencius
"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by doubling our joys and dividing our grief."-- Joseph Addison
"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."-- Mark Twain
"Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough."-- Dinah Shore
"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter"-- Marlene Dietrich
"We find comfort among those who agree with us--growth among those who don't."-- Frank A. Clark
"Love, friendship , respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred from something."-- Anton Chekhov
"You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."-- Dale Carnegie
"It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it."-- Zora Neale Hurston
"When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends."-- Japanese Proverb
"Empathy is the natural outgrowth of charity...Empathy is not sympathy but understanding and caring. It is the basis of true friendship."-- Lynn A. Mickelsen
"The kindest thing you can do for the people you care about is to become a happy, joyous person."-- Brian Tracey
"Never shall I forget the times I spent with you; continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours."-- Ludwig van Beethoven
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Top-level comments on this article: (5 total)hi jeff, very well written, interesting article. i love the quotes, i don't think you can help it-they make so much sense. thanks for taking the time to share, best regards, sue thomQuotes are my favorite. They say so much in so little. Thanks for stopping by.
hi jeff, thanks for a well written, interesting article. i am one who truly knows the meaning of friend, i have had to rely on mine quite heavily throughout the past year, and i am grateful to have friends i can count on. thank you for an uplifting article, best regards, sueThanks Susan. Isn't that what it's all about? Friends? Thanks for stopping by.
Yes, friends, who really are? A good job on an important topic.Thank you Robert, By the way, you've got my vote for president too. Saw your article, just didn't have the time to respond. Thanks for stopping by to comment on my article and to give me the chance to respond to yours.
Excellent article Jeff. I particularly like these two lines: "A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."-- Walter Winchell "A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway."-- Fr. Jerome Cummings I have a friend who literally saved my life. She's always late, totally unreliable but when I needed her the most, she came through!
That's a friend, at one's best when in need, in deed. Thanks for dropping a line, Leah.Sorry, Leah, that anonymous person was me, Jeff.
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