“True friends are always together in spirit.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love.”
― Mandy Hale
“True friends are those who came into your life, saw the most negative part of you, but are not ready to leave you, no matter how contagious you are to them.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign
tags: acceptance, affection, friendship, love, loyalty, power-of-love, secrets, true-friends, true-love, trust
“An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly,
“A messy house is a must - it separates your true friends from other friends.
Real friends are there to visit you not your house!”
― Jennifer Wilson
“People will walk in and walk out of your life, but the one whose footstep made a long lasting impression is the one you should never allow to walk out.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson
tags: boo, bring-back, buddy, companion, consideration, don-t-go-away, experience, friends, friendship, friendships, good-times, impression, impressive, living, looking-back, love, never-give-up, reflection, relationship, relationships, remembrance, season, seasons, the-old-good-days, thinking, true-friends, trust, trustworthy, unforgettable, value, walk-in, walk-out, worth
“When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far.”
― L.M. Montgomery
“Celebrate the people in your life who are there because they love you for no other reason than because you are YOU.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
“Animals are such agreeable friends―they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.”
― George Eliot, Mr Gilfil's Love Story
tags: animals, criticisms, true-friends
“There are still some wonderful people left in this world! They are diamonds in the rough, but they're around! You'll find them when you fall down– they're the ones who pick you up, who don't judge, and you had to fall down to see them! When you get up again, remember who your true friends are!”
― C. JoyBell C.
“Sometimes we have to behave indifferent towards people who proclaim their love to us, just to see if they are really different.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson
“My dearest friend Abigail, These probably could be the last words I write to you and I may not live long enough to see your response but I truly have lived long enough to live forever in the hearts of my friends. I thought a lot about what I should write to you. I thought of giving you blessings and wishes for things of great value to happen to you in future; I thought of appreciating you for being the way you are; I thought to give sweet and lovely compliments for everything about you; I thought to write something in praise of your poems and prose; and I thought of extending my gratitude for being one of the very few sincerest friends I have ever had. But that is what all friends do and they only qualify to remain as a part of the bunch of our loosely connected memories and that's not what I can choose to be, I cannot choose to be lost somewhere in your memories. So I thought of something through which I hope you will remember me for a very long time. I decided to share some part of my story, of what led me here, the part we both have had in common. A past, which changed us and our perception of the world. A past, which shaped our future into an unknown yet exciting opportunity to revisit the lost thoughts and to break free from the libido of our lost dreams. A past, which questioned our whole past. My dear, when the moment of my past struck me, in its highest demonised form, I felt dead, like a dead-man walking in flesh without a soul, who had no reason to live any more. I no longer saw any meaning of life but then I saw no reason to die as well. I travelled to far away lands, running away from friends, family and everyone else and I confined myself to my thoughts, to my feelings and to myself. Hours, days, weeks and months passed and I waited for a moment of magic to happen, a turn of destiny, but nothing happened, nothing ever happens. I waited and I counted each moment of it, thinking about every moment of my life, the good and the bad ones. I then saw how powerful yet weak, bright yet dark, beautiful yet ugly, joyous yet grievous; is a one single moment. One moment makes the difference. Just a one moment. Such appears to be the extreme and undisputed power of a single moment. We live in a world of appearance, Abigail, where the reality lies beyond the appearances, and this is also only what appears to be such powerful when in actuality it is not. I realised that the power of the moment is not in the moment itself. The power, actually, is in us. Every single one of us has the power to make and shape our own moments. It is us who by feeling joyful, celebrate for a moment of success; and it is also us who by feeling saddened, cry and mourn over our losses. I, with all my heart and mind, now embrace this power which lies within us. I wish life offers you more time to make use of this power. Remember, we are our own griefs, my dear, we are our own happinesses and we are our own remedies.
Take care!
Love,
Francis.
Title: Letter to Abigail
Scene: "Death-bed"
Chapter: The Road To Awe”
― Huseyn Raza
“Prisons are full of sociopaths and psychopaths, but when questioned, the imprisoned sociopath will honestly admit that they will commit any number of crimes to help a friend.
A friend will help you move; a true friend will help you move a body.
A friend will bail you out of jail; a true friend will be sitting beside you.
Who wouldn’t want to have a true friend? But they sound a lot like a sociopath.”
― Tanya Thompson, Assuming Names: A Con Artist's Masquerade
“Prijateljstvo se ne bira, rekao je, ono biva, ko zna zbog čega, kao ljubav. A ništa ja nisam tebi poklonio, već sebi.”
― Meša Selimović, Death and the Dervish
tags: friendship, true-friends
“Not all friends know they have lost you.”
― Joyce Rachelle
“It is for your own good to love a dare-devil rather than a holy coward. A dare-devil is a unique devil, battling your fears, your pains, conquering your uncertainties, carrying you his arms, and flying out of the corrosive fire. The coward is a trickster serpent, which vanishes in your time of despair, and appears in time of equanimity.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson
tags: battle, conqueror, corrosive, cowardice, dare-devil, despair, dread, dreadful, equanimity, fear, fight, fire, food-for-thought, haven, love, pain, safe, salvation, security, serpent, strong-bond, trickster, true-friends, uncertainties, uncertainty
“As you go through life's rich tapestry, you realize that most people you meet aren't fit to shine your shoes. It's a sad fact, but it's true. A good friend is someone who'd hide you if you were on the run for murder. How many of them do you know?”
― Lemmy Kilmister
tags: friends, friendship, true-friends
“It is not until you rhyme with a person that makes you their perfect match, it is when you are satisfied with each others peculiarities, and find jewels in their loopholes.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson
tags: compatibility, diamond, difference, finding-love, flaw, friends, friendship, friendships, gold, ideal, jewel, jewels, loophole, loopholes, love, love-life, oneness, peculiarities, peculiarity, perfect, perfect-match, real-friends, rhyme, satisfaction, silver, soulmate, together, true-friends, true-love, two
“A genuine enemy is more useful than a fake friend.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
tags: buddies, enemies, enemy, fake-friend, fake-friends, friend, friends, friendship, true-friend, true-friends
“Zavolio sam ga, znam po tome što mi je postao potreban, što nisam zamjerio ničemu ma šta da je rekao i učinio, i što mi je sve njegovo postalo važno. Ljubav je valjda jedina stvar na svijetu koju ne treba objašnjavati ni tražiti joj razlog.”
― Meša Selimović, Death and the Dervish
“A true friend doesn't have guts; they beat you up and later plead with you to beat them back.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson
tags: affection, baby, beat, beat-me, beating, beatings, beg, begging, bonhomie, camaraderie, childish, easy-going, fight, forgiveness, friendship, friendships, funny, game-of-love, gut, guts, humor, i-love-you, i-m-sorry, kneeling, little-things, love-game, michael-bassey-johnson, play, playing, plea, quarrel, quarrelsome, sweetheart, sympathy, true-friend, true-friends, truth
“You know that you're a true friend when somebody says "But what about that wart on the end of his nose?" and your honest response is "What wart?". You see true friends accept you for what you are, wart and all.”
― Jeffrey Michael
tags: friends, true-friends
“YOU MAY HAVE LOTS OF FRIENDS NOW,
BUT ONLY IN TOUGH TIMES,
WILL YOU KNOW WHO THE REAL ONES
ARE.”
― Mouloud Benzadi
tags: friends, friendship, hard-times, love, love-quotes, tough-times, true-friends
“Virtual friends are like snow flakes.
They descend in their thousands. They melt in seconds.”
― Mouloud Benzadi
“I love God, Jesus Christ, my three children, mother, father, brother, sisters, family in general, my pets, my students, and true friends.”
― Ana Monnar
“First impression is not the last reflection of a true friend, so if you are head over heels for someone who just bought you a cake, you'd better think twice before devouring your misery.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson
“Your mind can go ahead and imagine what it wants to imagine, but a true friend will always remain true, in spite of the false messages running through your mind.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson
“She glanced at Evie, who flashed her a smile, and Annabelle, whose face was reassuringly calm. They would help each other through all the challenges and joys and fears of their lives, Daisy thought, and she was suddenly overwhelmed with love for all of them.
“I will never live away from you,” she said. “I want the four of us to be together always. I could never bear to lose any of you.”
She felt Annabelle’s slippered toe nudge her leg affectionately. “Daisy…you can never lose a true friend.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Scandal in Spring
tags: annabelle, daisy, evie, lillian, true-friends, wallflowers
“True and sincere one always remembers how to make you happy by doing little things.”
― Ghazala Muhammad Ali
“A friend is someone who helps you up when you're down, and if they can't, they lay down beside you and listen.”
― A. A. Milne
tags: bff, friendship, true-friends
