My Friendship Quotes
When two people respect each other, the ability to be vulnerable and to reveal hurt feelings can create a powerful emotional connection that is the source of real intimacy and friendship.
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would update the list of my 'Top Ten' friends in the manner of a Top Of The Pops chart countdown.
I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.
After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring.
Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.
When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.
I haven't any close friends. Friendship needs time to interact, sit down, gossip. I don't have that time.
For people on social assistance, the loss of free dental care, prescription drugs and subsidized housing can greatly outweigh additional income from working. We've all heard the stories.
Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.
Did I choose you? Did you choose me? And what difference does it make? All that really matters, friend, is that we chose together.
Distrust those who love you extremely upon a slight acquaintance, and without any visible reason.
Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.
We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet; and amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog has made an alliance with us.
If we merely try to impress people and get people interested in us, we will never have many true, sincere friends. Friends, real friends, are not made that way.
My best male friend is my best friend until he crosses me. We're all protective of the self.
Holy Week is a privileged time when we are called to draw near to Jesus: friendship with him is shown in times of difficulty.
Man himself cannot express love and humility by external signs, so plainly as does a dog, when with drooping ears, hanging lips, flexuous body, and wagging tail, he meets his beloved master.
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
I have a dog and sometimes I'll be the littlest kid with my dog and marvel at his ears and his nose and how he looks at me. If he died, I'd bawl like a baby.
I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.
You know, I think everything I do cinematically for the rest of my life will probably have some direct route back to Jonathan. But I love him to death. He's like my best friend and my big brother.
When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations.
I was never the 'babe,' so I knew I'd never get those big roles. I'd always be the best friend or the quirky sidekick.
When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.
Do not save your loving speeches For your friends till they are dead; Do not write them on their tombstones, Speak them rather now instead.
Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard-you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!
Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
With every true friendship, we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests.
The light of friendship is like light of phosphorus, seen plainest when all around is dark.
Adversity not only draws people together, but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship.
Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to mis'ry (all he had) a tear, He gained from Heav'n ('t was all he wish'd) a friend.
Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.
