The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away. Barbara Kingsolver

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away. Dinah Craik

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away. Dinah Craik

There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul. Edith Wharton

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. Elisabeth Foley

I felt it shelter to speak to you. Emily Dickinson

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In my friend, I find a second self. Isabel Norton

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. Katherine Mansfield

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. Leo Buscaglia

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust

Friendship is one mind in two bodies. Menclus

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another. Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. Ralph Waldo Emerson

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar. Robert Brault

Friends are the sailors who guide your rickety boat safely across the dangerous waters of life. Sare and Cate

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. Sicilian Proverb

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. Swedish Proverb

A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. William Penn