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