True friendship resists time, distance and silence.
Lean on me, when you're not strong and I'll be your friend, I'll help you carry on.
When you love someone unconditionally, you go to war for them, and they do that for each other. They know they can call each other when they need each other. In this day and age, everyone needs a friend like in Hap and Leonard.
And you don't have to care, so don't pretend. Nobody needs a best fake friend.
Who friendship with a knave hath made, Is judged a partner in the trade.
I consider myself to be a true friend of the Israeli people. But I define friendship as someone who takes care of a friend, who just doesn't use or exploit a friend. And, you know, there's that old adage: 'Friends don't let friends drive drunk'.
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!"
What we seek in love is finding someone with whom we feel safe to reveal our true self.
Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings and realize that it's sometimes more important to be nice than to be honest.
But when you know that you've got a real friend somewhere, suddenly all the others are so much easier to bear.
Oh, it was delicious to have someone to keep secrets with. If I'd had a sister or a brother closer in age, I guessed that's what it would be like. But it wasn't just smoking or skirting around Mother. It was having someone look at you after your mother has nearly fretted herself to death because you are freakishly tall and frizzy and odd. Someone whose eyes simply said, without words, You are fine with me.
Friendship is all about trust and sharing. Passionate and romantic love is all about sex and emotions. You have to try to combine those, I think. The great marriages, the great couples I know, have both.
Faint heart never won true friend. O my friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my friend I may be yours.
Whatever's there to feel, feel it—the riddance, the relief, the fright and freedom, the fear of forgetting, the dull ache of your own mortality. Get with someone you can trust with tears, with anger, and wonderment and utter silence.
Friendship buys friendship.
