Quotes About Friendship

A good friend is someone who is there for me when i'm glad or sad...who I can laugh madly with or cry badly with.

Do you ever feel like you're not even friends with sme of your friends?

But if you find yourself smarting from an unfortunate comment in a usually loving friendship, I have three words for you: Get over it. Mention it if you need to, work it out, reaffirm your friendship, then get over it and go on. You know, the Lord didn't mess up. He's placed you and me smack dab in the middle of chaotic relationships with imperfect people because the bumpy road of loving and being loved leaves us richer as a result.

the Williamses, Loralee and I had driven to a grocery store with the improbable name of Piggly Wiggly to pick

Apparently, a good friend helps you bury a body. A best friend brings their own shovel and doesn't ask questions.

I'd sat on a bench there with Mabry and Bennett, eating ice cream and making up dramatic stories about the people we'd seen, their hidden lives and dark secrets. Mabry said I gave her nightmares sometimes, that that was the true mark of a storyteller, to make people believe something made-up was real.

Sharing the good and bad times with a lifelong friend made the business of living a lot more bearable.

It's easy to be kind and giving and loyal when you have everything. But the mark of a true friend is when everything is taken away and you're still kind, giving, and loyal." "Margaret's going through a

Who will sit on the porch with him then?

I think we're all born with an internal compass that leads us to where we're meant to be. And whether it's a good place or a bad place, there's nothing you can do about it. I think our best friends are the people whose compasses are pointed in the same direction. That's how we find one another

Life's journey doesn't mean much without friends who love you to come along for the ride.

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.

I never felt I had the kind of relationship with Magic that I could just pick up the phone and call him at home.

Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you're in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.

Nicht wahr, Pitt Holbers, altes Coon?

IT SOUNDS SIMPLE, BUT you have to like each other. Be friends, try to get past the initial heaving and panting and make sure there's a real friendship underneath that. I don't think you have to have identical interests, but you've got to have shared values. That is quite important. That was critical. Yeah, I think values are probably the most important thing.

Tip 3: Watch out for teasing.

POLITICAL VALUES, FEELINGS ABOUT not living in an ostentatious way, about commitment to other people, and our own commitments. We both had different specific commitments, but strong commitments in feeling that we owed something back, that our lives were going pretty well and we owed something back, not only of resources, but of time. We both loved to travel, and we had a sense of adventure. We liked the same people, and I think that's important. Very seldom did we disagree about friends.

What's the secret to a long, happy marriage?" was essentially, "I married my best friend." Similarly, from those whose marriages did not succeed, I often heard, "Well, we were good at love, but we never learned how to be friends.

What the experts suggest is that you look for the qualities of a friend—the capacity to comfortably "hang out"—in the person you choose to marry. Or as one of the experts told me: "Think back to the playground when you were a kid. Your spouse should be that kid you wanted most to play with!

Patty Banas, eighty, is one of the experts who made a go of a first marriage when young, divorced, and then "got it right" in her very happy second marriage. She too had one straightforward recommendation: BE SURE THAT YOU'RE really good friends. That is the most important thing. All the romance and the bells and the whistles are all very nice, but it doesn't last. Be sure that you're very good friends.

Although he was barely four years older than Gödel, Menger had become a sort of mentor to Gödel, and an almost fatherly friend. When he returned to Vienna, he and Gödel slowly drifted away from the Vienna Circle. To their taste, it had taken on too much of the flavor of Wittgenstein and of Neurath; there was too much of a cult about the former, and too much politics in the latter.

I love the friendly faces of old sorrows; I have no secrets that they do not know.