Mary Pipher Quotes

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.

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

Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.

Value your friendship. Value your relationships.

I think a good friend, to me, is all about trust and loyalty. You don't ever want to second-guess whether you can tell your friend something.

A pick-up artist gave me a good piece of advice: the three most important things in a relationship are honesty, trust and respect, and if you don't have those, you don't have love.

If you do something with acceptance and kindness, you can create a true friendship.

You should never undermine friendship and loyalty.

What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires, and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.

Close friendships are one of life's miracles - that a few people get to know you deeply, all your messy or shadowy stuff along with the beauty and sweetness, and they still love you. Not only still love you, but love you more and more deeply. I would do anything for my closest friends, and they would do almost anything for me, and that is about as spiritual a truth as you can get.

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

Always before, I just said no, left it solidly there. I waver now. I want to share everything with him. Want to know what he knows, feel what he feels, share the same space he's in.

Love with its paraphernalia of sexuality, jealousy, nostalgia and exaltation was easier to reognize than friendship, which seemed to have (excepting athletic equipment) no paraphernalia at all.

Friendship is very important to me. With some friends, we've known each other since we were kids and it's a very strong relationship. They always tell me what they think even when I am wrong. It's great to share with them the best moments. I also have many friends in the team, and I like to share my passion with them.

Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.

Various are the uses of friends, beyond all else in difficulty, but joy also looks for trust that is clear in the eyes.

Again and again, I learn how much friendship enriches my life, bringing warmth, assurance, humour, inspiration, a sense of security. It depends on honesty, trust, loyalty. It's about giving. It's for sharing the good times, but also the tough times, hurt, grief, sadness.

You’ll never regret being a good friend.

The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.

I take friendship very seriously.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you.