Henri Nouwen

"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

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"A true friend stabs you in the front."

- Oscar Wilde

"Friends are kisses blown to us by angels."

"Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years."

- Richard Bach

"Best friend: someone you can only stay mad at for so long because you have important things to talk about."

"F.R.I.E.N.D.S. Fight for you. Respect you. Include you. Encourage you. Need you. Deserve you. Stand by you."

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself."

- Aesop

"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."

- Alice Walker

"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"True friends don't judge each other, they judge other people together."

- Emilie Saint-Genis

"You can always tell when two people are best friends because they are having more fun than it makes sense for them to be having."

"Let's swear each with our pinky. We'll be the best of friends. Until we are old and wrinkly!"

"Every friendship travels at sometime through the black valley of despair. This tests every aspect of your affection. You lose the attraction and the magic."

- John O'Donohue

"There's not a word yet for old friends who've just met."

- Jim Henson

"Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious."

- Thomas Aquinas

"Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people."

- Namie Amuro

"A friend to all is a friend to none."

- Aristotle

"The only good thing about times of adversity is that you realize who your real friends and fans are - and the rest go away - which in my mind is an OK thing."

- Pete Wentz