Daily Gyaan

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Anaïs Nin

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Jung

Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
Richard Bach, Illusions, The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

All people want is someone to listen.
Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only Weblog

Friends are these people who ask you how you are and wait for an answer.

A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
Len Wein

Friendship isn't a big thing; It is a million of little things.

The road to a friend's house is never long.
Danish proverb

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Czech Proverb

When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog

There are people in the world who are here to save you when you need savin', cover your ass when it needs coverin', and are always there when you need someone to lean on.
Vivi from “The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood”

It’s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich

Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies.

Friendship is like peeing in your pants.
Everyone can see that it's there...
but only you can feel the true warmth.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
Henry Ford

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel. Or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to--letting a person be what he really is.
Jim Morrison

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. 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 curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
Henri Nouwen



Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You, too? I thought I was the only one."
C.S. Lewis

Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.
Madame de Tencin

If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.
Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.
Rebecca West

Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.
Georgia O'Keeffe

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington

Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.
Thomas Fuller

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.
Samuel Johnson

Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
Socrates

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
Thucydides, Peloponnesian War

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie

There isn’t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren’t really living without it.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog

Hold a true friend with both of your hands.
Friedrich Nietzsche



Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
Saadi

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
John Churton Collins

Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success — yours or his.
Franklin P. Jones

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
Oscar Wilde

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
Japanese Proverb

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
Homer

I realized that the Impossible stands for three things: the ghoul, the phoenix, and the loyal friend.
Safi el-Din el-Hilli

To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girl friends.

In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
Solon

It is a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.
Benjamin Franklin

A true friend stabs you in the front.
Oscar Wilde

A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
Arthur Brisbane, The Book of Today

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.
Mark Twain