Jackson Browne Quotes

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.

For truly, the greatest of all external blessings is it to be able to lean your heart against another heart, faithful, tender, true, and tried, and record with a thankfulness that years deepen instead of diminishing, "I have got a friend!"

One faithful Friend is enough for a man's self, 'tis much to meet with such an one, yet we can't have too many for the sake of others.

Other blessings may be taken away, but if we have acquired a good friend by goodness, we have a blessing which improves in value when others fail.

She couldn’t hide from everyone for the rest of her life… Well she could. That was the direction things were going. But she knew from long-ago experience that when you were uncertain and if you were courageous enough to let her in a real friend could do a world of good.

It's proper that people have friends, friendships without self-interest. Without friends, life is too lonely.

Discipline is money in the bank. A real friend, true strength.

At some of the darkest moments in my life, some people I thought of as friends deserted me-some because they cared about me and it hurt them to see me in pain; others because I reminded them of their own vulnerability, and that was more than they could handle. But real friends overcame their discomfort and came to sit with me. If they had not words to make me feel better, they sat in silence (much better than saying, "You'll get over it," or "It's not so bad; others have it worse") and I loved them for it.

I don't know if I've ever been in a clique. The older I've gotten, the more I've realized what a true friend really is. So my friendship circle has changed a bit.

I'm loyal, and I like my friends. Friendship enriches your life and makes it more interesting.

He who hath many friends hath none.

It's important to have girlfriends, because guys tend to come and go.

I'd like to get back to my family and friends - believe it or not, I do have some real friends.

In life, usually, even if you live in a big city, you can count on your fingers on one hand how many real friends you have; that's human.

I have some really great friends who encourage me.

You want to be around people who you feel comfortable with and you feel like show you the love that you show to them.

I do have many close girlfriends; these relationships are paramount in my life.

I've heard it said that the average person is lucky to have only a handful of true friends in their lifetime. Well, I sincerely feel I've got millions.

The real friend is another self.

A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you.

Real friends. The kind that don't purposely hurt your feelings or stop liking you for no reason.

There is no more precious experience in life than friendship. And I am not forgetting love and marriage as I write this; the lovers, or the man and wife, who are not friends are but weakly joined together. One enlarges his circle of friends through contact with many people. One who limits those contacts narrows the circle and frequently his own point of view as well.

We should always have three friends in our lives-one who walks ahead who we look up to and follow; one who walks beside us, who is with us every step of our journey; and then, one who we reach back for and bring along after we've cleared the way.

While friendship has been by far the chief source of my happiness, acquaintance or general society has always meant little to me, and I cannot quite understand why a man should wish to know more people than he can make real friends of.

We console ourselves with several friends for not having found one real one.