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