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