The most stable thing is that you are always unstable with your friends.
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often – just to save it from drying out completely.
Pam Brown.
It’s not like you can pick up a thing and store it up for life. while
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
You can choose to let it go as like putting down a burden, or you can keep on watering it until one day it blooms. But often too much water kills more plant than too little water. And to be a good gardener, you have to think and act for the plant, like
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Aristotle
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
Baltasar Gracian
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
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity
Proverbs
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 healing, not curing… that is a friend who cares.
Henri Nouwen
Friends are born, not made
Henry Adams
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
Margaret Lee Runbeck
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Mencius
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
John Leonard
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