Email: What’s the essence of friendship? (HK)
“A real friend is one who walks in, when the rest of the world walks out.”
– Walter Winchell
“If you live to be 100, hope I live 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.”
– Winnie the Pooh
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”
– C.S. Lewis
“True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.”
– David Tyson
“Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to raise yourself up.”
– Thomas J. Watson
“A friend understands your past, believes your future, accepts you the way you are.”
– Keats
“Ultimately the bond of companionship, friendship is conversation.”
– Oscar Wilde
“A true friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be going down.”
– Arnold H. Glasgow
“I don’t need a friend who changes when I change, who nods when I nod, my shadow does that much better.”
– Plutarch
“In everyone’s life sometimes, our inner fire goes out. We should be thankful for people who rekindle our inner spirit.”
– Albert Schweitzer
“If ever there’s a tomorrow when we’re not together, there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart, I’ll always be with you.”
– Winnie the Pooh
“One measure of friendship consists not in number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.”
– Clifton Fadiman
“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, to have her nonsense respected.”
– Charles Lamb
“If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.”
– Zig Ziglar
“You can always tell a real friend, when you’ve made a fool of yourself, he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.”
– Laurence J. Peter
“There’s one sad truth in life I’ve found
While journeying east and west
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best
We flatter those we scarcely know
We please the fleeting guest
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.”
– Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you, when the limo breaks down.”
— Oprah Winfrey
“When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.”
– Donald Miller
“If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.”
– Maxwell Maltz
“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.”
– Bernard Meltzer
“A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.”
– Donna Roberts
“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny”
– Gloria Naylor
“It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.”
– Epicurus
“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.”
– Tennessee Williams
“In sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”
– Khalil Gibran
“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.”
— Carl W. Buechner
“Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave and impossible to forget.”
– Unknown
“Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me, be my friend.”
– Albert Camus
“To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.”
– Brandi Snyder