"The
rain may be falling hard outside,
But your smile makes it all alright.
I'm so glad that you're my friend.
I know our friendship will never end."
-- Robert Alan
The
greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.
To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment,
is a secret which but few discover.
-- Joseph Addison
"A
faithful friend is the medicine of life."
-- Apocrypha
"Wishing
to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a
slow-ripening fruit."
-- Aristotle (4th century B.C.)
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"Friendship
is essentially a partnership."
-- Aristotle
(4th century B.C.)
"What
is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two
bodies."
-- Aristotle. (4th century B.C.)
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"I
keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because,
of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is
greater or better than friendship."
-- Pietro Aretino (1537)
"There
is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter
and the love of friends."
-- Hillaire Belloc
"Two
are better than one; because they have a good reward
for their labor. For if they fall, the one will
lift up his fellow: but woe unto him that is alone
when he falleth; for he hath not another to help
him up."
-- The Bible: Ecclesiastes 4:9-10.
"A
friend loves at all times."
-- The Bible: Proverbs 17, 17.
"A
companion loves some agreeable qualities which a
man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself."
-- James Boswell (1763)
"Friendship
is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another."
-- Eustace Budgell (1711)
"Friendship
is Love without his wings!"
-- Lord Byron (1806)
"Friendship
makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity
by dividing and sharing it."
-- Cicero (44 B.C.)
Friendship
improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling
of our joy and the dividing of our grief
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero
"True
friendship is like sound health; the value of it
is seldom known until it be lost"
-- Charles Caleb Colton (1825)
No
one person can possibly combine all the elements
supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.
-- Francis Marion Crawford
"If
you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends.
You talk to your enemies."
-- Moshe Dayan
Friendship
is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with
a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure
words.
-- George Eliot
"A
friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."
--
Ralph
Waldo Emerson
"A
friend is a person with whom I may be sincere."
--
Ralph
Waldo Emerson
The
glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one
when he discovers that someone else believes in
him and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
-- Ralph
Waldo Emerson
"We
do not so much need the help of our friends as the
confidence of their help in need."
-- Epicurus (3rd century B.C.)
"Friends
show their love in times of trouble..."
-- Euripides (408 B.C.)
"One
loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."
-- Euripides (408 B.C.)
"A
good friend is my nearest relation."
-- Thomas Fuller (1732)
"My
friend is he who will tell me my faults in private."
-- Solomon Ibn Gabirol
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"It
is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends.
But to befriend the one who regards himself
as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion.
The other is mere business."
-- Mohandas
K. Gandhi |
True
friendship comes when silence between two people
is comfortable.
--Dave Tyson Gentry
"Your
friend is your needs answered."
-- Kahil Gibran
"Let
there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening
of the spirit."
-- Kahil Gibran.
"Let
your best be for your friend..."
-- Kahil Gibran
"In
the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter,
and sharing of pleasures."
-- Kahil Gibran
"Friendship
multiplies the good of life and divides the evil."
-- Baltasar Gracian (1647)
"Friends
are the sunshine of life."
-- John Hay (1871)
"The
best mirror is an old friend."
--George Herbert
Don't
flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you
to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The
nearer you come into relation with a person, the
more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
"A
sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother."
-- Homer (9th century B.C.)
"Your
friend is the man who knows all about you, and still
likes you."
-- Elbert Hubbard
"Who
finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure."
-- Jewish saying
"We
cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is
formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there
is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in
a series of kindnesses there is at last one which
makes the heart run over."
-- Samuel Johnson
The
friendship which is to be practised or expected
by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual
pleasure, and must end when the power ceases of
delighting each other.
-- Samuel Johnson
The
best preparedness is the one that disarms the
hostility of other nations and makes friends
of them.
-- Helen
Keller |
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"However
rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."
-- La Rochefoucauld (1665)
"A
true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and
that which we take the least care to acquire."
-- La Rochefoucauld (1665)
Friendship
arises out of mere Companionship when two or more
of the companions discover that they have in common
some insight or interest or even taste which the
others do not share and which, till that moment,
each believed to be his own unique treasure (or
burden). The typical expression of opening Friendship
would be something like, "What? You too? I thought
I was the only one." . . . . It is when two such
person discover one another, when, whether with
immense difficulties and semi-articulate fumblings
or with what would seem to us amazing and elliptical
speed, they share their vision - it is then that
Friendship is born. And instantly they stand together
in an immense solitude.
-- C.S. Lewis
"I
shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.
I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, who has sight so keen and strong
That it can follow the flight of song?
Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend."
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"If
you want to make peace with your enemy, you
have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes
your partner.
-- Nelson
Mandela |
"A
true friend is someone who thinks that you are a
good egg even though he knows that you are slightly
cracked."
-- Bernard Meltzer.
"You
can make more friends in two months by becoming
really interested in other people, than you can
in two years by trying to get other people interested
in you."
-- Bernard Meltzer
A
real friend is one who walks in when the rest of
the world walks out. Friendship is one mind in two
bodies.
-- Mencius
"Hold
a true friend with both your hands."
-- Nigerian proverb
I
cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single
one of my friends because no one is complete enough
in himself.
-- Anais Nin
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
"Love
is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer
than love."
-- Charles Peguy
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"There
can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom."
-- William
Penn
Friendship
is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts,
and the bond thereof virtue
-- William
Penn
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That
friendship will not continue to the end which is
begun for an end.
-- Francis Quareles
"Peace
is not made with friends. Peace is made with
enemies."
--Yitzhak
Rabin |
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Peace
is achieved one person at a time, through a series
of friendships.
--Fatma Reda
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Friendship
with oneself is all-important because without
it one cannot be friends with anyone else
in the world.
-- Eleanor
Roosevelt
"Before
we can make friends with anyone else, we must
first make friends with ourselves."
--
Eleanor
Roosevelt
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We
have learned the simple truth, as Emerson
said that the only way to have a friend is
to be one. We can gain no lasting peace if
we approach it with suspicion or mistrust
or with fear.
-- Franklin
Delano Roosevelt
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"To
like and dislike the same things, this is what makes
a solid friendship."
-- Sallust (1st century B.C.)
Good
friends must not always be together; It is the feeling
of oneness when distant That proves a lasting friendship.
-- Susan P. Schultz
"One
who knows how to show and to accept kindness will
be a friend better than any possession."
-- Sophocles (409 BC)
"No
man is useless while he has a friend."
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
"A
friend is a present you give yourself."
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
"Life
is partly what we make it, and partly what it is
made by the friends whom we choose."
-- Tehyi Hsieh
"Friends
. . . They are kind to each other's hopes. They
cherish each other's dreams."
-- Henry
David Thoreau |
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"Grief
can take care of
itself, but to get the full value of a joy
you must have somebody to divide it with."
-- Mark
Twain
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"A
true friend is someone who is there for you when
he'd rather be anywhere else."
-- Len Wein
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"You
cannot be friends upon any other terms than
upon the terms of equality."
-- Woodrow
Wilson
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For
more Inspiring thoughts on friendship here are two
books that you'll treasure like friends:
- A
BOOK OF FRIENDSHIP, by Dr. Rudolp Brasch
(Angus & Robertson\HarperCollins, 1982).
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This book is a wonderful celebration of
friendship. It is filled with inspiring
stories of friendship and sprinkled with
uplifting quotes.
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- KINDRED
SPIRITS: Meditations on Family and Friends,
edited by Peg Streep, with paintings by Claudia
Karabaic Sargent. (Viking Studio Books, 1995).
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This is a beautifully illustrated book of
quotations and literary passages that honor
friendship. The selections are inspiring,
and the accompanying illustrations are exquisitely
breathtaking.
