Quotes by True Friend The more we seek exclusivity in friendship, the more it becomes obligatory and the less likely it is to fulfill the wonderful vision of what true friendship can be. Harriet Lerner true-friend vision friendship If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend. Harriet Beecher Stowe true-friend selfish friendship Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. Helen Keller true-friend best-friend friendship It is organized as a fellowship of men, a system of morals, a philosophy taught by degrees through the use of symbol, story, legend, pictures, and drama. It has served as a center of union among differing backgrounds, cultures, and countries. It serves as the means of conciliating true friendship among persons, who, because of differences, must have otherwise remained at a perpetual distance. Harry S. Truman true-friend philosophy country One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Henry Adams true-friend friendship two True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart Helen Keller long-distance-relationship true-friend best-friend The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing...that is a friend who cares. Henri Nouwen true-friend grief friendship Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. Henri Nouwen true-friend pain friendship To God, thy country, and thy friend be true. Henry Vaughan true-friend friendship country Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow true-friend best-friend friendship A friend is what the heart needs all the time. Henry Van Dyke true-friend relationship friendship A true Friendship is as wise as it is tender. The parties to it yield implicitly to the guidance of their love, and know no otherlaw nor kindness. Henry David Thoreau true-friend wise friendship I'm thrilled the president [Barack Obama] has endorsed me. We started off as fierce competitors, and we've ended up as true friends and partners and worked together on so many important issues. Hillary Clinton true-friend issues president If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend. Henri Nouwen true-friend love-is enemy Amity itself can only be maintained by reciprocal respect, and true friends are punctilious equals. Herman Melville reciprocal true-friend relation True friends appear less moved than counterfeit. Homer counterfeit true-friend literature I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them. Ian Somerhalder true-friend friends two It's OK to argue with your friends. Guys can do it better than girls, usually, but if you ever get into a fight with a true friend or a spouse or a boyfriend, get it out, fight, be angry for five minutes, and then move past it. Don't let it fester; don't hold a grudge. If you do, that's when it will get worse and worse. Ike Barinholtz true-friend girl moving On the moral plane, true friends enjoy the same protection as the sense of smell confers upon dogs. They scent the sorrow of their friends, they divine its causes, and they clasp it to their minds and hearts. Honore de Balzac true-friend friends dog The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. Isaac Asimov true-friend learning business «23456789101112»