How to Live

Live so that your friends can defend you, but never have to.

Arnold H. Glasow

How They Make Us Feel

People love others not for who they are but for how they make us feel.

~Irwin Federman

Friendship

Oh, the comfort --
The inexpressible comfort of feeling
safe with a person,
Having neither to weigh thoughts,
Nor measure words -- but pouring them
All right out -- just as they are --
Chaff and grain together --
Certain that a faithful hand will
Take and sift them --
Keep what is worth keeping --
and with the breath of kindness
Blow the rest away.

~Dinah Maria Craik

True Friends

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.

~Elisabeth Foley

A Friend

A friend knows how to allow for mere quantity in your talk and only replies to the quality.

~William Dean Howells

Standing Up

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies but even more to stand up to your friends.

~J.K. Rowling

Behind Their Backs

The best thing to do behind a friend's back is pat it.

~Ruth Brillhart

Through the Heart

One learns people through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.

~Mark Twain

Friendship

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

~George Eliot

Make Friends

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

~Dale Carnegie