🤝 Friendship

“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

#friendship #crisis #loyalty

“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 #loyalty #hardship

“I have seen what a laugh can do it can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable even hopeful”

— Bob Hope

#friendship #laughter #hope

“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives”

— Euripides

#friendship #loyalty #value

“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts”

— Rachel Carson

#friendship #beauty #strength

“The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#friendship #attention #gift

“The deepest need of man is the need to overcome his separateness”

— Gabriel Marcel

#friendship #separateness #need

“Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.”

— Publilius Syrus

#friendship #adversity #loyalty

“If you have one true friend you have more than your share”

— Thomas Fuller

#friendship #one #treasure

“People dont care how much you know until they know how much you care”

— John Maxwell

#friendship #caring #knowledge

“Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.”

— Euripides

#friendship #wisdom #blessing

“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with success”

— Oscar Wilde

#friendship #sympathy #success

“Friendship is one mind in two bodies.”

— Mencius

#friendship #unity #understanding

“I have found that among its other benefits giving liberates the soul of the giver”

— Maya Angelou

#friendship #giving #liberation

“Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness”

— Jean Vanier

#friendship #weakness #growth

“We cannot change what we are not aware of and once we are aware we cannot help but change”

— Sheryl Sandberg

#friendship #awareness #change

“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom”

— Marcel Proust

#friendship #gratitude #happiness

“We can do hard things”

— Glennon Doyle

#friendship #strength #courage

“Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.”

— Thomas Aquinas

#friendship #pleasure #joy

“In prosperity our friends know us in adversity we know our friends”

— John Churton Collins

#friendship #adversity #prosperity

“A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.”

— Saint Jerome

#friendship #perseverance #value

“Friendship doubles joys and halves griefs”

— Francis Bacon

#friendship #joy #grief

“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.”

— Tennessee Claflin

#friendship #choices #life

“Be with those who help your being”

— Rumi

#friendship #being #help

“Rare as true love is true friendship is rarer still”

— Jean de La Fontaine

#friendship #rare #true

“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards”

— Soren Kierkegaard

#friendship #understanding #living

“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

#friendship #love #improvement

“It is a joy to be hidden and disaster not to be found”

— Donald Winnicott

#friendship #hiding #finding

“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures.”

— Rumi

#sweetness #laughter #sharing

“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”

— Kahlil Gibran

#laughter #dew #morning

“Wherever you are and whatever you do be in love”

— Rumi

#friendship #love #everywhere

“The truth is everyone is going to hurt you you just have to find the ones worth suffering for”

— Bob Marley

#friendship #truth #suffering

“No man is free who is not master of himself”

— Epictetus

#friendship #freedom #mastery

“I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires rather than in attempting to satisfy them”

— John Stuart Mill

#friendship #happiness #contentment

“True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils”

— Baltasar Gracian

#friendship #multiply #good

“A friend is as it were a second self”

— Cicero

#friendship #self #mirror

“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know”

— Pema Chodron

#friendship #lessons #patience

“Tell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life”

— Mary Oliver

#friendship #life #planning

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”

— C.S. Lewis

#born #moment #shared

“Be slow to fall into friendship but when you are in continue firm and constant”

— Socrates

#friendship #constancy #patience

“Friendship is a sheltering tree”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#friendship #shelter #tree

“Of all the means to ensure happiness the most important is the acquisition of friends”

— Epicurus

#friendship #happiness #importance

“Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness”

— Brene Brown

#friendship #vulnerability #connection

“He who has begun has half done dare to be wise begin”

— Horace

#friendship #beginning #wisdom

“We are what we pretend to be so we must be careful about what we pretend to be”

— Kurt Vonnegut

#friendship #authenticity #pretense

“A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still gently allows you to grow.”

— William Shakespeare

#knowing #understanding #growing

“The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church”

— Tertullian

#friendship #sacrifice #growth

“Friends are Gods way of taking care of us”

— Wayne Dyer

#friendship #divine #care

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies the man who never reads lives only one”

— George R.R. Martin

#friendship #reading #lives

“Life is nothing without friendship.”

— Cicero

#friendship #life #meaning

“Good friends good books and a sleepy conscience this is the ideal life”

— Mark Twain

#friendship #books #life

“To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.”

— Sallust

#friendship #agreement #bond

“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship”

— Thomas Aquinas

#friendship #prize #earth

“I may not have gone where I intended to go but I think I have ended up where I needed to be”

— Douglas Adams

#friendship #journey #destination

“Friendship is the marriage of the soul.”

— Voltaire

#marriage #soul #friendship

“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people”

— Dale Carnegie

#friendship #interest #people

“Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.”

— George Eliot

#friendship #positivity #warmth

“Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.”

— Epicurus

#friendship #happiness #wisdom

“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks”

— John Muir

#friendship #nature #walking

“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.”

— Cicero

#happiness #misery #doubling

“A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday”

— Erma Bombeck

#friendship #humor #loyalty

“A friend is, as it were, a second self.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#friendship #self #mirror

“You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality”

— Logan Pearsall Smith

#friendship #equality #terms

“A true friend unbosoms freely advises justly assists readily adventures boldly and takes all patiently”

— William Penn

#friendship #qualities #patience

“Friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it”

— Thomas More

#friendship #prosperity #adversity

“Be slow in choosing a friend slower in changing”

— Benjamin Franklin

#friendship #caution #choosing

“It is what we make out of what we have not what we are given that separates one person from another”

— Nelson Mandela

#friendship #effort #character

“One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.”

— Hasidic Proverb

#friendship #acceptance #imperfection

“Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health but in men on a well-formed character”

— Democritus

#friendship #character #breeding

“The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity”

— Leo Tolstoy

#friendship #service #humanity

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”

— Mother Teresa

#judging #loving #time

“The richest and fullest lives attempt to achieve an inner balance between three realms work love and play”

— Erik Erikson

#friendship #balance #fullness

“Life is nothing without friendship”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#friendship #life #essential

“The most meaningful way to succeed is to help other people succeed”

— Adam Grant

#friendship #success #helping

“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch a smile a kind word a listening ear”

— Leo Buscaglia

#friendship #small-gestures #power

“You need to learn how to select your thoughts the same way you select your clothes every day”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#friendship #thoughts #selection

“The soul is healed by being with children.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#soul #children #healing

“For the world is only the desert which needs the oasis of friendship”

— Hannah Arendt

#friendship #world #oasis

“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”

— Leo Tolstoy

#warriors #patience #time

“An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast”

— Buddha

#friendship #sincerity #caution

“I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

#loved #forms #forever

“The only thing that is constant is change”

— Heraclitus

#friendship #change #constant

“A person is a person no matter how small”

— Dr Seuss

#friendship #equality #respect

“You cannot be lonely if you like the person you are alone with.”

— Wayne Dyer

#lonely #alone #liking

“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of”

— Blaise Pascal

#friendship #heart #reasons

“Have no friends not equal to yourself.”

— Confucius

#equal #friends #yourself

“Friends are as companions on a journey who ought to aid each other”

— Pythagoras

#friendship #journey #aid

“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#footprints #heart #walking

“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent intolerable uncertainty made bearable by friends”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#friendship #uncertainty #bearing

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them”

— Seneca

#friendship #old-friends #comfort

“A book is a dream that you hold in your hand”

— Neil Gaiman

#friendship #dreams #sharing

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#having #being #reciprocity

“What cannot be communicated to the mother cannot be communicated to the self”

— John Bowlby

#friendship #communication #self

“In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends”

— Martin Luther King Jr

#friendship #silence #memory

“When two people relate to each other authentically the between is where god dwells”

— Martin Buber

#friendship #authenticity #divine

“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

#friendship #love #letting-go

“A true friend stabs you in the front.”

— Oscar Wilde

#friendship #honesty #trust

“It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.”

— Epicurus

#friendship #trust #comfort

“A stranger is just a friend I have not met yet”

— Will Rogers

#friendship #stranger #openness

“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves”

— Thomas Merton

#friendship #love #freedom

“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

#friendship #timing #fate

“Strength lies in differences not in similarities”

— Stephen Covey

#friendship #differences #strength

“Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.”

— Socrates

#friendship #loyalty #patience

“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am then I can change”

— Carl Rogers

#friendship #acceptance #paradox

“A friend to all is a friend to none.”

— Aristotle

#friendship #authenticity #depth

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure”

— Marianne Williamson

#friendship #power #fear

“We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves”

— Angeles Arrien

#friendship #courage #yes

“Each friend represents a world in us a world not born until they arrive”

— Anais Nin

#friendship #world #discovery

“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

#friendship #mind #gathering

“Connection is why we are here it is what gives purpose and meaning to our lives”

— Brene Brown

#friendship #connection #purpose

“Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person”

— George Eliot

#friendship #comfort #safety

“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself”

— Jim Morrison

#friendship #freedom #authenticity

“Although the physicality of death destroys us the idea of death saves us”

— Irvin Yalom

#friendship #mortality #meaning

“Without friends no one would choose to live though he had all other goods”

— Aristotle

#friendship #necessity #life

“The only normal people are the ones you do not know very well”

— Alfred Adler

#friendship #normal #knowing

“The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude”

— William James

#friendship #attitude #discovery

“Start by doing what is necessary then do what is possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible”

— Francis of Assisi

#friendship #possibility #action

“The earth is what we all have in common”

— Wendell Berry

#friendship #earth #common

“Have no friends not equal to yourself”

— Confucius

#friendship #equality #standards

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good friend should be. Be one.”

— Marcus Aurelius

#arguing #being #good

“Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#friendship #effort #connection

“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”

— Oprah Winfrey

#limo #bus #loyalty

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page”

— Augustine of Hippo

#friendship #world #travel

“If the only tool you have is a hammer you tend to see every problem as a nail”

— Abraham Maslow

#friendship #perspective #tools

“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

#friendship #devotion #love

“The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships”

— Tony Robbins

#friendship #quality #relationships

“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity”

— Simone Weil

#friendship #attention #generosity

“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility never an opportunity”

— Kahlil Gibran

#friendship #responsibility #sweetness

“True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.”

— David Tyson

#friendship #silence #comfort

“A friend to all is a friend to none.”

— Aristotle

#friend #all #none

“Friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.”

— Cicero

#friendship #adversity #sharing

“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”

— Thomas Aquinas

#friendship #value #truth

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.”

— Dalai Lama

#love #compassion #necessities

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through”

— Maya Angelou

#friendship #growth #change

“I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued.”

— Brene Brown

#connection #energy #seen

“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.”

— Kahlil Gibran

#friendship #joy #laughter

“Without a certain amount of laziness you do not know how to love your friends”

— Andre Maurois

#friendship #ease #relaxation

“Stay is a charming word in a friends vocabulary”

— Louisa May Alcott

#friendship #stay #presence

“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

#friendship #sharing #overflow

“Wear a friend as a coat against the storm.”

— Thiruvalluvar

#friendship #protection #support

“Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.”

— George Eliot

#comfort #safe #feeling

“The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships.”

— Robin Sharma

#quality #life #relationships

“A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence”

— David Hume

#friendship #wisdom #evidence

“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 #enemies #wisdom

“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.”

— Henry David Thoreau

#friendship #distance #connection

“Nature holds the key to our aesthetic intellectual cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction”

— E.O. Wilson

#friendship #nature #satisfaction

“I no doubt deserved my enemies but I do not believe I deserved my friends”

— Walt Whitman

#friendship #gratitude #humility

“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 #being #seeking

“Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life.”

— Jean de La Fontaine

#friendship #aging #time

“My friends are my estate.”

— Emily Dickinson

#estate #friends #wealth

“The single story creates stereotypes and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue but that they are incomplete”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#friendship #stories #completeness

“You do not choose your family they are given to you but you can choose your friends”

— Desmond Tutu

#friendship #choice #family

“Books are a uniquely portable magic”

— Stephen King

#friendship #magic #portable

“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked”

— David Tyson

#friendship #humor #acceptance

“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#friendship #nature #connection

“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

#friendship #bravery #honesty

“A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy”

— Aesop

#friendship #doubt #enemy

“Wherever you go there you are”

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

#friendship #presence #awareness

“In the midst of movement and chaos keep stillness inside of you”

— Deepak Chopra

#friendship #stillness #chaos

“Think where glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends”

— William Butler Yeats

#friendship #glory #pride

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life”

— Melody Beattie

#friendship #gratitude #fullness

“Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”

— Charles Dickens

#heart #temper #touch

“The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice it is conformity”

— Rollo May

#friendship #courage #conformity

“Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.”

— Hermann Hesse

#holding #letting-go #strength

“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.”

— Euripides

#friendship #loyalty #wisdom

“The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.”

— Henry David Thoreau

#doing #simply #being

“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

#friendship #kindness #gradual

“A leader is best when people barely know he exists when his work is done they will say we did it ourselves”

— Lao Tzu

#friendship #leadership #humility

“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.”

— Seneca

#understanding #beautiful #qualities

“What is food to one man is bitter poison to others”

— Lucretius

#friendship #difference #perspective

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”