Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.
Oscar Wilde
The wound is the place where the light enters you.
Rumi
You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
C.S. Lewis
Friendship is the wine of life.
Richard Burton
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather, it gives value to survival. Also, it's a great excuse for bad jokes.
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
Benjamin Franklin
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you even if you forget the words.
Unknown
Friendship... is not something to be explained, but rather to be experienced.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.
Charles Lamb
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
How do you spell 'love'? You don't spell it, you feel it.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Kahlil Gibran
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
Henri Nouwen
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
Honoré de Balzac
Sometimes our light goes out, but it is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
Albert Schweitzer
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
Leo Buscaglia