Hugh Prather Quotes

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Friends accept you the way you are.

My best friend is he who rights my wrongs or reproaches my mistakes.

I am compassionate. I allow my heart and imagination to embrace the difficulties and concerns of others. While maintaining my own balance, I find it within myself to extend sympathy, attention, and support. When they are grieved, I listen with openness and gentle strength. I offer loyalty, friendship, and human understanding. Without undermining or enabling, I aid and assist others to find their strength. I allow the healing power of the Universe to flow through me, soothing the hearts and feelings of those I encounter.

Jessi is a great person. She really is. She's been a friend to me all through all my bad times, and she's understood what I was doing. She came up with that one saying, which was great.

My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of.

A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me.

We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

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.

People make mistakes all the time. We learn and grow. If there's patience and love, and you care for people, you can work them through it, and they can find their greatest heights.

It's so easy to be there when it's all sunshine, but it really takes strength and courage to be there for each other during the dark times.

Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

I'd rather have friends who care than friends who agree with me.

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

You need somebody just to say, 'Hey, I'm here for you. Do you need anything?' If you can get somebody like that, you can make it, no question about it. You can make it.

We hang out, we help one another, we tell one another our worst fears and biggest secrets, and then, just like real sisters, we listen and don't judge.

The fellowship of true friends who can hear you out, share your joys, help carry your burdens, and correctly counsel you is priceless.

Friendship is accepting a person with all their qualities - good and bad.

I don't live with my head in the sand - I see people's flaws. I don't like everything my friends do or say. But one, I don't judge or reprimand them to their face because it's not my job to tell them they're screwing up; it's just my job to love them.

It's good to have genuine people around you, who are there for you when you need them.