authentic companionship Quotes

Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.

Do not keep company with people who speak of careers. Not only are such people uninteresting in themselves; they also have no interest in anything interesting. . . . Keep company with people who are interested in the world outside themselves. The one who never asks you what you are working on; who never inquires as to the success of your latest project; who never uses the word career as a noun -- he is your friend.

Real love is not an escape from loneliness, real love is an overflowing aloneness. One is so happy in being alone that one wud like to share.

Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation.

Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.

Friends are rare for, the good reason that men are not common.

A real friendship is a light thing. A real friend holds you loosely.

He that is thy friend indeed, He will help thee in thy need: If thou sorrow, he will weep; If thou wake, he cannot sleep: Thus of every grief in heart He with thee does bear a part. These are certain signs to know Faithful friend from flattering foe.

A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you.

Either be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good--a mere stranger will do no harm.

Maybe that's what real friendship is -- getting so used to people that you need to be annoyed by them.

my friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost.

There is an intimate laughter to be found only among friends