The True Friend
We always seek someone who can accompany us, alleviating our worries and sharing our joys and sorrows. We desire a person who keeps our secrets, brings happiness to our hearts, honors our commitments, and remains loyal to us always. When these qualities come together in a single individual, we refer to them as a true friend. A true friend is a priceless treasure, akin to a sibling who is not born of the same mother. In this article, we present some of the most beautiful quotes from poets and writers regarding true friendship.
Beautiful Quotes About True Friends
- A friend is someone who prays for you in your absence and always wishes you well.
- A true friend is someone who supports you when everyone else lets go; cling to them with your heart.
- A true friend is someone with whom you can be yourself, as comfortable as when you are alone, essentially a person you cherish as your own soul.
- A true friend is someone who accepts your excuses, forgives your mistakes, and stands in your place when you are away.
- True friendship is like the bond between the eye and the hand: when the hand is in pain, the eye weeps, and when the eye tears up, the hand wipes it away.
- A true friend is someone who points out your flaws, encourages your strengths, and helps you engage in righteous deeds.
- A true friend is one who cares for you in your financial matters, family, children, and honor.
- A true friend stands by you during both good times and bad, in joy and sorrow, in abundance and scarcity, in wealth and poverty.
- A true friend prioritizes your well-being over their own and always wishes you happiness.
- A true friend is one who remains by your side when the whole world has turned away.
- A friend is one who upholds the promises and agreements made between you, even amid disagreements.
Reflections on Friendship
Reflection One:
My friend, you will always be the one who comforts my solitude, fills my loneliness, and drives away my fears. You are the most beautiful flower in my garden, so please don’t wilt; stay a blossoming flower each year. You are my joy, my delight that banishes tears from my eyes. Come, tie the ribbon of our friendship and love around your wrist, dear one. You have captured my heart and filled my world. I miss you dearly. Do not be deceived by the noise of the people nor my laughter; I am truly the one who hides the most sorrows. I need you, my friend, even when surrounded by others. I will not distance myself from you, the dearest of companions. I cherish you, my friend, beyond measure, and because of you, I hold the highest regard for those who cherish you. I take pride in being your friend, source of kindness and purity in your eyes.
Reflection Two:
I love you
I love you because you are me
I love you because you are my sister
I love you because you are my soul
I love you because you are my heart
I love you because you are my friend
I love you because you are my happiness
I love you because you are a gift from God
I love you because you are the light that brightens my path
I love you because you are my treasure chest of secrets
I love you because you are genuine, spontaneous, and true to yourself
I love you for always being close to me
I love you because you understand me despite the long distances
You comprehend me even if we are behind screens
You understand me through my words, my style, my laughter, my tone
I love you because you listen to me, and you advise me
I love you because you raise your voice when I err
I love you because you trust me
I love you because you deserve trust
I love you because you taught me the meaning of friendship and kinship
I love you because you make me feel secure with your presence, your eyes reflect loyalty, your words manifest truth, and with you, I find sincerity
I love you because you bring a smile to my face despite sorrow
I love you because you have sweetened the taste of life
I love you because you are remarkable, distinctive
I love you because you are my air.
A Poem for a Friend
The poem “To My Friend” is by the poet Elia Abu Madi, born in 1891 in the village of Mahdita, Lebanon. He was a member of the Pen League in the United States. He studied in Lebanon before moving to Alexandria at the age of eleven and later to the United States. His collections include “The Streams,” “Memories of the Past,” and “The Thickets.” Here is an excerpt from his poem to a friend:
He is honorable who does not accompany the unworthy,
So break your inkwell, shatter the pen!
Have mercy on your youthful days, for they do not carry the burdens, yet you bear the pain.
How often you call them while they slumbered,
Do you think you can hear the whispers?
There is a deafness in their ears,
As if there is a blockage within their hearing.
People need their aspirations,
Or are you among those who create ambitions?
By God, if you were the son of Sa’ida,
Politeness would be your guide, and generosity would be your trait.
And you have outshone Galen in wisdom,
The knowledge of Aristotle shares not your patience.
And you surpassed Columbus in discovery,
And you were more audacious than Edison in ambition.
You took from this ocean its pearls,
And offered them consistently to others.
You revealed the secrets of existence to them,
And made every banished soul a nation.
You were not accused of being unworthy among them,
I found the noble with accusations.
They humiliated each other, labeling one another as devoid of value,
Knowing the world’s disdain without anger.
It is as if they were created for uncertainty,
Like they favored nonexistence.
Do you not see them, whenever they belong,
They arrive neither pure nor obscure?
They possess no significance, yet they claim importance,
While the West stands as a witness to their ignorance.
He who is strong diminishes himself when divided,
The ocean grows larger when in harmony.
And stands firm like a fortified wall,
When it quakes, it crumbles down.
The people will never rise
As long as division embraces them.
O, the poet and what he endures,
In a nation where none resemble the other.
If he confesses, his dignity does not survive,
The fault belongs to whoever silences the grievance.
He weeps, yet those chief jesters laugh away,
And ignorance trumps wisdom with a smirk.
It came with existence, unannounced,
And time will pass while it remains unknown.
Having weakened, it’s no surprise if you stumble,
The lion, had it not been for its strength, would also submit.
For I have witnessed the universe, its pattern,
Like an ocean that consumes its own fish.
For it shows no mercy to the daring,
Nor does it spare the wretched lion.
My companion, your affection draws me
Until I perceive our connection as a bond.
What harm has befallen us in our closeness since
Our opportune ties remain steadfast?
People read what is written in ink,
But your brother reads it as blood.
Sustain the soul, void of its return,
Bitten by the bonds only after regret.
You cannot change their natures,
Before the earth finds itself in the heavens.
She has visited you without obscuring her meanings,
With a luminosity dimmed by shadows.
My hands have outpaced their hopes within it,
And I have spoken while they consult the mute.
If compared to their miracles,
Their marvels served you in their servitude.
Like undulating waves, I have never seen a sound that is intoxicatingly alluring,
Drunk with intense inebriation, clothed in propriety.
Heard amidst the wild, a brother to dust,
Which makes the wild forget the exquisite form.
I bestowed my yearning, and she embraced my heart,
Filled with intimate longing.
Surely, the stars within their abodes,
Would respond at your call.
Words on the Love of Friends
- Friendship is the joy of life.
- Friends act as medicine during difficult days.
- She is my friend and my love, my other half, my source of happiness, my world, and everything to me.
- Being my friend means that distance does not frighten me, and sparse communication does not terrify me because I am confident that when I see you next, it will feel as if we had never been apart.
- It is a delight to have a friend who makes you fall asleep smiling and wake up smiling, with a comfort between the first and second smile that cannot be expressed.
- And I, dear friend, see everyone as withered branches, while you are the tree that embraces my shadow.
- How beautiful friendship is with a true friend, and how beautiful a friend is with kindness and loyalty.
- A true friend is someone who finds you when you disappear from the world, who dares to hear your voice even when your phone is off, who overlooks your absence and does not hold you accountable for your changing moods.
- The purity of friendship is more profound than a hundred love stories; it knows no boundaries and is not weakened by absence, stronger than circumstances, it surpasses love itself.
- I have a friend far from my eyes but close to my heart; I love her dearly and passionately, holding her dear with all my love.
- You, my friend, are my strength when I have nothing to bolster me, my hope in desperate and sorrowful moments, and with your frailty, you have given me small joys and life itself.
- When discussing the beauty of friendship, remember she is my friend, my sister, my heart, my entirety, and there will never be another like her.