A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart.  ~Author Unknown


Friendship is a sheltering tree.  ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn’t matter.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.  ~Shirley Maclaine

Friendship is Love, without his wings.  ~Lord Byron, L’Amitié est l’Amour sans Ailes

But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one’s deepest as well as one’s most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely.  Oh, the comfort – the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person – having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right 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 then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.  ~Dinah Craik, A Life for a Life, 1859