Martin Henderson Quotes

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Friendship is one of the greatest gifts a human being can receive. It is a bond beyond common goals, common interests, or common histories. It is a bond stronger than sexual union can create, deeper than a shared fate can solidify, and even more intimate than the bonds of marriage or community. Friendship is being with the other in joy and sorrow, even when we cannot increase the joy or decrease the sorrow. It is a unity of souls that gives nobility and sincerity to love. Friendship makes all of life shine brightly.

He looked down and did something quite out of character for him: he took hold of Shmuel's tiny hand in his and squeezed it tightly. "You're my best friend, Shmuel," he said. "My best friend for life.

I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.

Only those who went hungry with me and stood by me when I went through a bad time at some point in life will eat at my table.

We are all good friends. Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

Friendship is something that is cultivated.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

When you feel totally alone in your thoughts and feelings, there's someone out there who is going through what you went through, even if it's the strangest, weirdest thing you could think of.

I say find one true friend to help you get through the tough times.

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

I turn to books for a feeling of companionship: for somebody knowing what I have known.

My music is straightforward because I want to give people me and let them know they're not alone in going through the things that they go through.

In difficult times, most of us need friends.

A true friend is a sort of second self.

Here we have a saying: a good friend is someone who visits you when you are in prison. But a really good friend is someone who comes to hear your lectures.

That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity

In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise.

I saw Herschel and he saw me and we stood next to each other because that is what friends do in the presence of evil or love.

What is a friend? I will tell you . . . . it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

A friend is a second self.

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.