The Value of True Friendship I value the

The Value of True Friendship

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar. ― Robert Brault

Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path. ― Baha’i Writings

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you. ― A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

A friend is one that knows you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow. ― William Shakespeare

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light. ― Helen Keller

A faithful friend is a strong defence: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure. ― Christian Writings

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends? ― Abraham Lincoln

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. ― John Churton Collins

Do not think the peace of the world an ideal impossible to attain. . . If you desire with all your heart friendship with every race on earth, your thought, spiritual and positive will spread; it will become the desire of others, growing stronger until it reaches the minds of all men. . - Baha’i Writings

When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business. ― Mahatma Gandhi

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

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up. ― John Holmes

The numerous nations will become one, the surface of the earth will become one land, and mankind will be a single community. The relations between the countries- the mingling, union and friendship of the peoples and communities- will reach to such a degree that the human race will be like one family and kindred. - Baha’i Writings

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.

So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend. ― Robert Louis Stevenson

I've heard it said that people come into our lives for a reason Bringing something we must learn And we are led to those who help us most to grow If we let them and we help

Thoughts of love are constructive of brotherhood, peace, friendship, and happiness. . - Baha’i Writings

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

Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation. - Tennessee Williams

If for the faring-on you can find A friend, well-behaved, prudent and wise, Walk with him joyfully and mindfully, Overcoming dangers. If for the faring-on you cannot find A friend, well-behaved, prudent and wise, Fare alone as a king renouncing his conquered land And as an elephant roaming alone in the wilds. ― Buddhist Writings

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. ― Plutarch

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend. Aristotle ―

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. - Elbert Hubbard

Ask and pray to God that thou mayest become… a lover of men and a wellwisher of human kind; nay, rather, thou mayest become the manifestation of the divine providence, finding out the heavenly gifts, enlisting thyself among the soldiers of the kingdom of peace and reconciliation…spreading righteousness and friendship and becoming the cause of tranquility and composure to the world of humanity.

A friend is someone who inspires, who challenges, who sends you in search of some truer sense of yourself. Steve Lopez ―

The only way to have a friend is to be one. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

When you choose your friends, don't be shortchanged by choosing personality over character. ― W. Somerset Maugham

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort. ― Charlotte Brontë

The advent of the prophets and the revelation of the Holy Books is intended to create love between souls and friendship between the inhabitants of the earth. - Baha’i Writings

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. - Aristotle

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. ― E. W. Howe

Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. - Henry Ford

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. - Khalil Gibran

There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person but an expansion of one’s self, the very meaning of one’s soul. ― Edith Wharton

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity. - Ulysses S. Grant

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

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else. - Len Wein

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. - Plautus

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you. - Paramahansa Yogananda

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Friends are the siblings God never gave us. - Mencius

Be thou a summoner to love, and be thou kind to all the human race…Be thou of those who foster peace. Offer thy friendship, be worthy of trust. ― Baha’i Writings