Helpful Friend Quotes

#1. A child ... who has learned from fairy stories to believe that what at first seemed a repulsive, threatening figure can magically change into a most helpful friend is ready to believe that a strange child whom he meets and fears may also be changed from a menace into a desirable companion.

Bruno Bettelheim

#2. Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love.

Rumi

#3. I try to be a lot of things for the authors I work with - a careful reader, a helpful friend who also happens to be an experienced writer, a thoughtful editor, and a creative midwife.

Kevin Sampsell

#4. I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.

Damian Lewis

#5. I believe almost every author have gone through the terribly uncomfortable period between the time of shedding the seeds of a story and waiting to see it flourish as a published book, spending hours watering and fertilizing it. This is a dreadful period, frustrating and depressing.

Ama H. Vanniarachchy

#6. It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

Elizabeth Bowen

#7. Give me the biblical Christ or give me nothing.

R.C. Sproul

#8. The bittersweet about truth is that nothing could be more hurtful, yet nothing could be more helpful.

Mike Norton

#9. Miracle centered gospel has reduced humans to the level of animals.

Sunday Adelaja

#10. Be helpful after you think, be smart before you create your own personality and be thoughtful after making friends.

Fahmid Hassan Prohor

#11. These two, I say, viz. external material things, as the objects of SENSATION, and the operations of our own minds within, as the objects of REFLECTION, are to me the only originals from whence all our ideas take their beginnings.

John Locke

#12. I know of no one who has been more helpful to the industry. His teachings and consultations internationally, without doubt, improved the quality of winemaking in our country. He was a friend to everyone interested in fine wine.

Robert Mondavi

#13. An idler and a sluggard are as different as a gourmand and a glutton.

David Mitchell

#14. A friend is not the shadow that mimics you, but the one who casts all shadows away.

Shannon L. Alder