316 quotes
“Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were the easiest for his feet.”
— John Selden
“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“A team is not a group of people that work together a team is a group of people that trust each other”
— Simon Sinek
“A friend in need is a friend indeed”
— Sophocles
“He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.”
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
“Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
— Aristotle
“Immature love says I love you because I need you mature love says I need you because I love you”
— Erich Fromm
“Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.”
— Epicurus
“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair who can stay with us in an hour of grief is the healing presence we need”
— Henri Nouwen
“One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.”
— Hasidic Proverb
“The only way to have a friend is to be one”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“No one will protect what they do not care about and no one will care about what they have never experienced”
— David Attenborough
“Be slow to fall into friendship but when you are in continue firm and constant”
— Socrates
“She is a friend of my mind she gather me man the pieces I am she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order”
— Toni Morrison
“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.”
“Your friend is your needs answered”
— Khalil Gibran
“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you”
— Oprah Winfrey
“Friendship needs no words it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness”
— Dag Hammarskjold
“Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness”
— Jean Vanier
“The only thing that is constant is change”
— Heraclitus
“We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give”
— Winston Churchill
“The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away”
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“The greatest thing we can do is let people know that they are loved and capable of loving”
— Fred Rogers
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts”
— Rachel Carson
“To love is to recognize yourself in another”
— Eckhart Tolle
“A leader is best when people barely know he exists when his work is done they will say we did it ourselves”
— Lao Tzu
“Rare as true love is true friendship is rarer still”
— Jean de La Fontaine
“What is stronger than the human heart which shatters over and over and still lives”
— Rupi Kaur
“A friend in power is a friend lost”
— William Hazlitt
“He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.”
— Basil of Caesarea
“In the end these things matter most how well did you love how fully did you live how deeply did you let go”
— Jack Kornfield
“You yourself as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection”
— Sharon Salzberg
“In the midst of movement and chaos keep stillness inside of you”
— Deepak Chopra
“Think where glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends”
— William Butler Yeats
“In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends”
— Martin Luther King Jr
“Friendship is one mind in two bodies.”
— Mencius
“He who has begun has half done dare to be wise begin”
— Horace
“Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.”
“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards”
— Soren Kierkegaard
“Stay is a charming word in a friends vocabulary”
— Louisa May Alcott
“Wear a friend as a coat against the storm.”
— Thiruvalluvar
“Listen to the mustnts child listen to the donts listen to the shouldnts the impossibles the wonts then listen to me anything can happen”
— Shel Silverstein
— Saint Basil
“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies but just as much to stand up to our friends”
— J.K. Rowling
“Meditation is not about trying to throw yourself away and become something better. It is about befriending who you are already.”
— Chogyam Trungpa
“The first duty of love is to listen”
— Paul Tillich
“A friend is as it were a second self”
— Cicero
“A faithful friend is the medicine of life.”
— Unknown
“What cannot be communicated to the mother cannot be communicated to the self”
— John Bowlby
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
— Marcel Proust
“No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away”
— Terry Pratchett
“Wear a friend as a garment that fits closely, not loosely.”
“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together”
— Woodrow Wilson
“The endearing elegance of female friendship”
— Samuel Johnson
“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.”
— Euripides
“Friends are as companions on a journey who ought to aid each other”
— Pythagoras
“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people”
— Dale Carnegie
“Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole of family life by far the most important is the acquisition of friends who become like family.”
“Be slow in choosing a friend slower in changing”
— Benjamin Franklin
“Strength lies in differences not in similarities”
— Stephen Covey
“When we are no longer able to change a situation we are challenged to change ourselves”
— Viktor Frankl
“I do not need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better”
— Plutarch
“A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy”
— Aesop
“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.”
— James Boswell
“A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks”
— John Muir
“One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.”
“My religion is very simple my religion is kindness”
— Dalai Lama
“You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality”
— Logan Pearsall Smith
“Friendship doubles joys and halves griefs”
— Francis Bacon
“The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church”
— Tertullian
“Rarely if ever are any of us healed in isolation healing is an act of communion”
— bell hooks
“Life is nothing without friendship”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
“A single rose can be my garden and a single friend my world.”
— Leo Buscaglia
“Think where family glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such family friends.”
— W.B. Yeats
“Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.”
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent intolerable uncertainty made bearable by friends”
— Ursula K. Le Guin
“We are what we pretend to be so we must be careful about what we pretend to be”
— Kurt Vonnegut
“Love is friendship that has caught fire.”
— Ann Landers
“With self-compassion we give ourselves the same kindness we would give a good friend in need”
— Kristen Neff
“True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils”
— Baltasar Gracian
“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
— Mark Twain
“I find that friendship is like wine raw when new ripened with age”
— Thomas Jefferson
“The purpose of life is to use our gifts in the service of others”
— Robin Sharma
“Fortune favors the bold”
— Virgil
“Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.”
“I have seen what a laugh can do it can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable even hopeful”
— Bob Hope
“He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.”
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of”
— Blaise Pascal
“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship”
— Thomas Aquinas
“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“Have no friends not equal to yourself”
— Confucius
“When they go low we go high”
— Michelle Obama
“The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow”
— Alan Alda
“In prosperity our friends know us in adversity we know our friends”
— John Churton Collins
“In everyone life at some time our inner fire goes out and a friend fans it into flame again”
— Albert Schweitzer
“Of all the means to ensure happiness the most important is the acquisition of friends”
— Richard Brooks
“Wherever you go there you are”
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
“A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday”
— Erma Bombeck
“Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health but in men on a well-formed character”
— Democritus
“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us.”
— Washington Irving
“A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships”
— Tony Robbins
“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life”
— Melody Beattie
“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends.”
— Jane Austen
“The greatest sweetness of existence is friendship”
— Joseph Addison
“Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle”
— Plato
“The only normal people are the ones you do not know very well”
— Alfred Adler
“If you go looking for a friend you will find them very scarce if you go out to be a friend you will find them everywhere”
— Zig Ziglar
“Friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it”
— Thomas More
“The face of the other instructs me”
— Emmanuel Levinas
“Can miles truly separate you from friends if you want to be with someone you love you are already there”
— Richard Bach
“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”
“People dont care how much you know until they know how much you care”
— John Maxwell
“Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.”
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies the man who never reads lives only one”
— George R.R. Martin
“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked”
— David Tyson
“A true friend unbosoms freely advises justly assists readily adventures boldly and takes all patiently”
— William Penn
“Between friends there is no need of justice.”
“Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life.”
“When a friend asks, there is no tomorrow.”
— George Herbert
“We cannot change what we are not aware of and once we are aware we cannot help but change”
— Sheryl Sandberg
“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know”
— Pema Chodron
“When two people relate to each other authentically the between is where god dwells”
— Martin Buber
“Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.”
“A stranger is just a friend I have not met yet”
— Will Rogers
“A life is made up of a great number of small incidents and a small number of great ones”
— Roald Dahl
“Wherever you are and whatever you do be in love”
— Rumi
“You need to learn how to select your thoughts the same way you select your clothes every day”
— Elizabeth Gilbert
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through”
— Maya Angelou
“From that hour I clove to him for a friend, and a friend we were, and are forever.”
— Herman Melville
“I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires rather than in attempting to satisfy them”
— John Stuart Mill
“All flourishing is mutual”
— Robin Wall Kimmerer
“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 is worth more than gold.”
“The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.”
— William Blake
“I have found that among its other benefits giving liberates the soul of the giver”
“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives when seeking peace.”
“What is food to one man is bitter poison to others”
— Lucretius
“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures.”
— Kahlil Gibran
“The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.”
— David Storey
“I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends and bring them peace.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“If you have one true friend you have more than your share”
— Thomas Fuller
“If you judge people you have no time to love them”
— Mother Teresa
“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair is the one who shows true compassion”
“Be impeccable with your word speak with integrity”
— Don Miguel Ruiz
“Love is a friendship set to music.”
— Joseph Campbell
“The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.”
— Hubert H. Humphrey
“A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.”
— Saint Jerome
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity”
— Simone Weil
“A faithful friend is the medicine of life”
— Ovid
“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
— Elbert Hubbard
“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with”
— Jim Rohn
“We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves”
— Angeles Arrien
“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light”
— Helen Keller
“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“You can love someone and still choose to say goodbye”
— Tara Westover
“Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends”
— Virginia Woolf
“The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends”
“Be with those who help your being”
“If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own”
— Charlotte Bronte
“It is what we make out of what we have not what we are given that separates one person from another”
— Nelson Mandela
“A friend is, as it were, a second self.”
“To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.”
— Sallust
“The richest and fullest lives attempt to achieve an inner balance between three realms work love and play”
— Erik Erikson
“Do not walk behind me I may not lead. Do not walk in front of me I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend in peace.”
— Albert Camus
“Whoever has God for his friend has all friends.”
“I had a lovers quarrel with the world”
— Robert Frost
“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.”
— Tennessee Claflin
“A companion's words of persuasion are effective.”
— Homer
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go”
— T.S. Eliot
“Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy much the greatest is the possession of friendship.”
“Life is nothing without friendship.”
“Good friends good books and a sleepy conscience this is the ideal life”
“Lead me O God and thou O Destiny to the goal which you have ordained for me”
— Cleanthes
“The single story creates stereotypes and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue but that they are incomplete”
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“I may not have gone where I intended to go but I think I have ended up where I needed to be”
— Douglas Adams
“If you press me to say why I loved him I can say no more than because he was he and I was I”
— Michel de Montaigne
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
“With self-compassion we give ourselves the same kindness and care we would give to a good friend”
— Kristin Neff
“Each friend represents a world in us a world not born until they arrive”
— Anais Nin
“Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.”
— Baltasar Gracián
“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”
“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives”
“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility never an opportunity”
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us we often find it is those who have shared our pain”
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page”
— Augustine of Hippo
“We are cups constantly and quietly being filled the trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out”
— Ray Bradbury
“No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.”
— Robert Southey
“Tell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life”
— Mary Oliver
“It is not that I am mad it is only that my head is different from yours”
— Diogenes
“A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence”
— David Hume
“I no doubt deserved my enemies but I do not believe I deserved my friends”
— Walt Whitman
“Family friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.”
“True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.”
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature.”
“Connection is why we are here it is what gives purpose and meaning to our lives”
— Brene Brown
“Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person”
— George Eliot
“Friendship is the marriage of souls and this marriage is subject to divorce”
— Voltaire
“Friendship is a sheltering tree”
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“The power plant does not have energy it generates energy”
— Brendon Burchard
“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch a smile a kind word a listening ear”
“There is nothing on earth more to be prized than true friendship.”
“A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity stability and beauty of the biotic community”
— Aldo Leopold
“Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.”
“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”
“A book is a dream that you hold in your hand”
— Neil Gaiman
“Without friends no one would choose to live though he had all other goods”
“Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness”
“Wisdom cannot be imparted wisdom that a wise man tries to impart always sounds like foolishness”
— Hermann Hesse
“Silence is a true friend who never betrays”
“The truth is everyone is going to hurt you you just have to find the ones worth suffering for”
— Bob Marley
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom”
— Isaac Asimov
“The best mirror is an old friend”
“Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth you owe me look what happens with a love like that it lights the whole sky”
— Hafiz
“Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with another”
— George Santayana
“The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity”
— Leo Tolstoy
“Without a certain amount of laziness you do not know how to love your friends”
— Andre Maurois
“My friends are my estate”
— Emily Dickinson
“If you have one true friend, you have more than your share.”
“When we love we always strive to become better than we are when we strive to become better everything around us becomes better too”
— Paulo Coelho
“Your heart and my heart are very old friends.”
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man true nobility is being superior to your former self”
— Ernest Hemingway
“Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.”
“The soul is healed by being with children”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“We can do hard things”
— Glennon Doyle
“A true friend is the greatest of all blessings and that which we take the least care to acquire”
— La Rochefoucauld
“No man is free who is not master of himself”
— Epictetus
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them”
— Seneca
“My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.”
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom”
“A friend to all is a friend to none.”
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading you can only think what everyone else is thinking”
— Haruki Murakami
“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane”
— Marcus Aurelius
“The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself”
— Thales
“It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.”
“It is the little things citizens do that is what will make the difference my little thing is planting trees”
— Wangari Maathai
“Friends are Gods way of taking care of us”
— Wayne Dyer
“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood”
“True happiness arises from the enjoyment of one's self, and from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.”
“The deepest need of man is the need to overcome his separateness”
— Gabriel Marcel
“Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.”
“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with success”
— Oscar Wilde
“Nature holds the key to our aesthetic intellectual cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction”
— E.O. Wilson
“The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude”
— William James
“The most meaningful way to succeed is to help other people succeed”
— Adam Grant
“Friendship is the marriage of the soul.”
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure”
— Marianne Williamson
“It is not so much our friends help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us in our pursuit of peace.”
“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves”
— Thomas Merton
“Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.”
“The earth is what we all have in common”
— Wendell Berry
“An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast”
— Buddha
“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you”
“Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare — and precious as a pearl.”
— Taras Shevchenko
“You do not choose your family they are given to you but you can choose your friends”
— Desmond Tutu
“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”
“Love is friendship set on fire.”
— Jeremy Taylor
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am then I can change”
— Carl Rogers
“Solitude does not necessarily mean living apart from others rather it means never living apart from oneself”
— Parker Palmer
“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature”
“Do not walk behind me I may not lead do not walk in front of me I may not follow just walk beside me and be my friend”
“Love is like a friendship caught on fire.”
— Bruce Lee
“If the only tool you have is a hammer you tend to see every problem as a nail”
— Abraham Maslow
“Start by doing what is necessary then do what is possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible”
— Francis of Assisi
“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed”
“Friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.”
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
“I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best they are merely the people who got there first”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“A person is a person no matter how small”
— Dr Seuss
“Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.”
— Publilius Syrus
“He who loses money, loses much; he who loses a friend, loses much more; he who loses faith, loses all.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction both are transformed”
— Carl Jung
“When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy.”
“We have two ears and one mouth so we should listen more than we say”
— Zeno of Citium
“A true friend is distinguished in the crisis of hazard and necessity; when the gallantry of his aid may show the worth of his soul and the loyalty of his heart.”
— Quintus Ennius
“It is not a lack of love but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages”
“One friend in a lifetime is much two are many three are hardly possible”
— Henry Brooks Adams
“Be courteous to all but intimate with few and let those few be well tried”
— George Washington
“There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends.”
— Paramahansa Yogananda
“Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.”
“Books are a uniquely portable magic”
— Stephen King
“The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend”
“The better part of ones life consists of friendships”
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
“It is a joy to be hidden and disaster not to be found”
— Donald Winnicott
“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone”
— Neale Donald Walsch
“We forfeit three quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
“The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice it is conformity”
— Rollo May
“A true friend stabs you in the front.”
“Although the physicality of death destroys us the idea of death saves us”
— Irvin Yalom
“For the world is only the desert which needs the oasis of friendship”
— Hannah Arendt
“The universe itself is god and the universal outpouring of its soul”
— Chrysippus
“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself”
— Jim Morrison
“Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.”
“Many people will walk in and out of your life but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart”
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