Charles Kingsley Quotes

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

What is a friend? I will tell you... it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

I say find one true friend to help you get through the tough times.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of.

The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when.

The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

I've known my best friend since I was a baby, and I don't know what I would do without her. She is always straight with me and can make me laugh hysterically. Everyone should have someone like that in their life.

He that is thy friend indeed, he will help thee in thy need: if thou sorrow, he will weep; if you wake, he cannot sleep; thus of every grief in heart he with thee doth bear a part.

Oh my God, my girlfriends are everything to me. They celebrate with you, they cry with you, they hold you when you need to be held. They laugh with you. They're mean with you! They're always there, and it's just a priceless thing to have.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

We all need friends, and friends are there to hold you up when nothing else can.

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?

If you are going to be with someone all the time, they need to be your best friend.

What is a friend? I will tell you . . . . it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

What can we give a child when there is nothing left? All we have, I think, is the truth, the truth that will set him free, not limited, provable truth, but the open, growing, evolving truth that is not afraid.

The boldest stroke and best act of friendship is not to disclose our own failings to a friend, but to show him his own.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

I know you have much to bear with in me, and I really do sometimes in you, but I have never looked at friendship in a deep sense as easy or entirely comfortable.