Henry David Thoreau Quotes

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

The real friend is another self.

Thou learnest no secret until thou knowest friendship, since to the unsound no heavenly knowledge enters.

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

That's the thing about friendship, it's a lot rarer than love, because there is nothing in it for any body.

A blessed thing it is to have a friend; one human soul whom we can trust utterly; who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults; who will speak the honest truth to us, while the world flatters us to our face, and laughs at us behind our back; who will give us counsel and reproof in a day of prosperity and self-conceit; but who, again, will comfort and encourage us in days of difficulty and sorrow, when the world leaves us alone to fight our own battle as we can.

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.

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

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

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?

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.

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

The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.

Your true friends will tell you what they believe is true.

The ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self: the ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another, to have walked with them and to have believed in them, and sometimes just to have accompanied them for however brief a span, on a journey impossible to accomplish alone.

Two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul

Close friendships are one of life's miracles - that a few people get to know you deeply, all your messy or shadowy stuff along with the beauty and sweetness, and they still love you. Not only still love you, but love you more and more deeply. I would do anything for my closest friends, and they would do almost anything for me, and that is about as spiritual a truth as you can get.

Here we have a saying: a good friend is someone who visits you when you are in prison. But a really good friend is someone who comes to hear your lectures.

Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex.

but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.

They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend.

A friend is someone who knows you and loves you for what you were and who you are, and who also shares your hopes and dreams for who you can become.

Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.

All my closest friends are the ones I made while in college or who knew me growing up. They keep me grounded, and I adore that about them.

Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.- Don Corleone