Top 37 Quotes About Intimate Friendship
#1. Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#2. It is only when we understand the transcendence of God that we see how amazing his immanence is, and what a huge privilege it is to be able to enjoy God's intimate friendship.
Nicky Gumbel
#3. Love in any relationship, family or an intimate friendship, is only about putting the other person's needs ahead of your own, and that, my friend, is just as simple and as complex as you make it.
Twinkle Khanna
#4. The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
#5. It is not a rare occurrence among intimate friends that their friendship is strengthened when one has displeased the other but has afterwards humbled himself and asked pardon.
Alfonso Maria De Liguori
#6. You will give birth to more in the future than you've lost in the past.
Joel Osteen
#7. If you are not careful, you can end up with many friends to do stuff with and to enjoy stuff with, but when it comes to sharing in the most intimate ways, is there anyone there?
Mark Vernon
#9. As an introvert, you crave intimate moments and deep connections--and those usually aren't found in a crowd.
Jenn Granneman
#10. Very intimate but very separate at the same time'. That's my credo for friendship.
Gwendoline Riley
#12. He was lonely; I wanted to help, of course, but not from so intimate a distance; and lately our meetings had become memorable as a series of comically protracted farewells on station platforms and embarrassed, hasty protestations of friendship made through the windows of departing taxicabs.
M. John Harrison
#13. A bosom friend - an intimate friend, you know - a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#14. Faith is above all a personal, intimate encounter with Jesus, and to experience [His] closeness, [His] friendship, [His] Love; only in this way does one learn to know [Him] ever more, and to love and follow [Him] ever more. May this happen to each one of us.
Pope Benedict XVI
#15. But make no mistake, the President will find in our new majority the voice of the American people as they've expressed it tonight: standing on principle, checking Washington's power and leading the drive for a smaller, less costly, and more accountable government.
John Boehner
#16. Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.
Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni
#18. It was a trap. It was so obviously a trap.
Darquesse smiled.
Derek Landy
#19. This female was: dangerous, stealthy, utterly lethal Gen One Breed. And hotter than hell itself.
Lara Adrian
#20. I spoke of my desire of finding a friend, of my thirst for a more intimate sympathy with a fellow mind than had ever fallen to my lot, and expressed my conviction that a man could boast of little happiness who did not enjoy this blessing.
Mary Shelley
#21. I want to know what it is to build the foundation of the friendship for real, to have my best friend and not because we're just intimate, but because we're mentally intimate. So I'm waiting for that person to come into my life.
LisaRaye McCoy-Misick
#22. If you were to buy a [BMW] 6-series, I recommend you select reverse when leaving friends' houses so they don't see its backside.
Jeremy Clarkson
#23. One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then
Henry David Thoreau
#24. Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#25. When we do the hard, intimate work of friendship, we bring a little more of the divine into daily life.
Shauna Niequist
#26. In order to understand the impact you can have on another's life by listening you need to first be intimate with the experience of being heard.
Madelaine Standing
#27. I think it's important, if you are an artist, to use your music to stand up for what you believe in.
Tracy Chapman
#28. 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 appellation.
George Washington
#29. [09:09] MAV: You're sending me into space in a convertible.
[09:24] HOUSTON: There will be Hab canvas covering the holes. It will provide enough aerodynamics in Mars's atmosphere.
[09:38] MAV: So it's a ragtop. Much better.
Andy Weir
#30. During adolescence, friends bring an intimate quality of support that can't be provided by any adult.
Sara Shandler
#31. The most familiar and intimate habitudes, connections, friendships, require a degree of good-breeding both to preserve and cement them.
Lord Chesterfield
#32. There ain't never a horse that never been rode; there ain't never a rider that can't be thrown.
Gary Cooper
#33. If you would feel comfortable going around to someone's house at the end of a long day saying, "I'm just going to take my bra off," you know you are intimate friends.
Caitlin Moran
#34. To share poetry is one of the most intimate acts of friendship possible ...
Madeleine L'Engle
#36. In our weeks of talk, movies and friendship, I watched as Wilma turned a medical ordeal into one more event in her life, but not its definition. I believe she was teaching me an intimate form of The Way. In her words: Every day is a good day - because we are part of everything alive.
Gloria Steinem
#37. In romance, we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship, we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.
Mariella Frostrup
