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