More inspirational words about the tie that binds... and bonds.
Dear friends, let us practice loving each other,
for love comes from God and those who are loving
and kind show that they are the children of God.
~ 1 John 4:7 TLB ~
A true friend is someone who listens to us
with real concentration and expresses sincere care
for our struggles and pains.
She makes us feel that something very deep is happening to us.
~ Sister Helen Feeney ~
There’s something beautiful about finding
one’s innermost thoughts in another.
~ Oliver Schreiner ~
My friend shall forever be my friend,
and reflect a ray of God to me.
~ Henry David Thoreau ~
The friend who walk with you on sunlit days
and in stormy weather, helping you through joy and strife,
are the ones who give meaning to life.
~ Anonymous ~
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spirited inspiration that comes to one
when he discovers that someone else believes in him
and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
We cannot tell the precise moment
when a friendship starts….
It is like filling a vessel drop-by-drop
which makes it at last run over;
so a series of kindnesses…
make the heart run over.
~ James Boswell ~
For all of us, whether we walk old paths
or blaze new trails,
friends remain important.
~ Lois Wyse ~
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed;
our love to others, and others’ love to us.
~ Thomas Traherne ~
There is in friendship something of all relations,
and something above them all.
It is the golden thread that ties
the hearts of all the world.
~ John Evelyn ~
Heaven comes down to touch us when we find ourselves
safe in the heart of another.
~ Anonymous ~
A good friend is a connection to life---
a tie to the past, a road to the future.
~ Lois Wyse ~
They say you will never be lonely
from the start of each day to its end
if you walk life’s pathway with love in your heart,
and side by side with a friend.
~ Proverbs NIV ~
I count your friendship one of the chiefest pleasures of my life,
A comfort in time of doubt and trouble,
A joy in time of prosperity and success,
And an inspiration at all times.
~ Edwin Osgood Grover ~
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
~ Aristotle ~
Friendship is a union of spirits,
a marriage of hearts,
and the bond thereof virtue.
~ William Penn ~
The place where two friends first met
is sacred to them all through their friendship,
all the more sacred as their friendship deepens and grows old.
~ Phillips Brooks ~
When you’re with someone you trust in,
never needing to pretend,
someone who helps you know yourself…
you know you’re with a friend.
~ Amanda Bradley ~
The friend given you by circumstances over which
you have no control was God’s own gift.
~ Frederick Roberston ~
Friendships begun in this world can be taken up again
in heaven, never to be broken off.
~ Francis De Sales ~
