Your friends are very precious things;
Their love is like the rarest gem.
But friends are hard to find and keep
Unless you are a friend to them. ~ Ann Cragg

Copyright © 1999 Ann Cragg, from the book Ghosts and Echoes.
All rights reserved. For more works or information: Ann Cragg.

QUOTATIONS ABOUT FRIENDSHIP

A friend is a gift you give yourself. Robert Louis Stevenson

A friend is a person with whom you dare to be yourself. Frank Crane

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words. Donna Roberts

A friend may well be reckoned a masterpiece of nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. anon

A single rose can be my garden . . . a single friend, my world. Leo Buscaglia

Begin the day with friendliness, keep friendly all day long. Frank Whitney

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends. Thomas Hughes

Blessed is the influence of one, true, loving soul on another. George Eliot

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends. Jacques DeLille

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend. Albert Camus.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new
world is born. Anais Nin

Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say. anon

Friends are the sunshine of life. John Hay

Friends share each other's gladness and wipe each other's tears. Charles Jeffreys

Friendship is one mind in two bodies. Mencius

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You, too? Thought I was the only one. C.S. Lewis

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. C.S. Lewis

Friendship soothes the soul. Baltasar Gracian

Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best. Joseph Parry

Good friends are like stars ... you don't always see them, but you know they're always there. anon

Happy is the heart that shelters a friend. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hold a true friend with both your hands. Nigerian Proverb

I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation. Rupert Brooke

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rather than for our own. Charlotte Bronte

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Just thinking about a friend makes you want to do a happy dance, because a friend is someone who loves you in spite of your faults. Charles M. Schulz

My friends have made the story of my life. Helen Keller

My heart is warm with the friends I make. Edna St. Vincent Millay

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever. Francois Muriac

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. Charles Dickens

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. Epicurus

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. Sophocles

Precious are all things that come from friends. Theocritus

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love, do not require coupons. G.T. Hewitt

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover. Joseph Addison

The reward of friendship is itself. Ailred of Rievaulx

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved for ourselves. Victor Hugo

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. St. Thomas Aquinas

There's nothing worth winning but laughter and the love of friends. Hillaire Belloc

To have a good friend is one of the highest delights of life. Ralph Waldo Emerson

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice. Ben Johnson

"We both have families we were born into, but sometimes families change and we have to build our own . . . for me, our friendship binds us closer than blood ever could." Xena to Gabrielle in "Ties That Bind"

What I cannot love, I overlook. That is real friendship. Anais Nin

When it hurts to look back and you are too scared to go forward, look beside you and your best friend will be there. anon