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FRIENDSHIP
"We
need each other, deeper than anyone ever dares
to admit even to themselves. I think it is a genetic
imperative that we huddle together and hold on
to each other. There is no question in my mind
that there is nothing else in life, really, than
friendship."
-- Patch
Adams
"The
rain may be falling hard outside,
But your smile makes it all alright.
I'm so glad that you're my friend.
I know our friendship will never end."
-- Robert
Alan Silverstein
Friends
are one of the greatest treasures we have in life.
We choose our friends and share ourselves with them
in good times, bad times and through every day life.
-- Robert
Alan Silverstein
The
greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise
this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which
but few discover.
-- Joseph Addison
"A
faithful friend is the medicine of life."
-- Apocrypha
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"Wishing
to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a
slow-ripening fruit."
-- Aristotle
"Friendship
is essentially a partnership."
-- Aristotle
"What
is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
-- Aristotle
In
poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are
a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to
the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness,
and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
-- Aristotle
"I
keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because,
of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater
or better than friendship."
-- Pietro Aretino (1537)
"There
is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and
the love of friends."
-- Hillaire Belloc
"Two
are better than one; because they have a good reward for
their labor. For if they fall, the one will lift up his
fellow: but woe unto him that is alone when he falleth;
for he hath not another to help him up."
-- The Bible: Ecclesiastes 4:9-10.
"A
friend loves at all times."
-- The Bible: Proverbs 17, 17.
"A
companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may
possess, but a friend loves the man himself."
-- James Boswell (1763)
"Friendship
is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to
promote the good and happiness of one another."
-- Eustace Budgell (1711)
"Friendship
is Love without his wings!"
-- Lord Byron (1806)
"Friendship
makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity
by dividing and sharing it."
-- Cicero (44 B.C.)
Friendship
improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling
of our joy and the dividing of our grief
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero
"True
friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom
known until it be lost"
-- Charles Caleb Colton (1825)
No
one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed
to make up what everyone means by friendship.
-- Francis Marion Crawford
A
friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings
"If
you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends.
You talk to your enemies."
-- Moshe Dayan
My
friends are my estate.
-- Emily Dickinson
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...to
have a friend, and to be true under any and all
trials, is the mark of a man!
-- Charles
Eastman (Ohiyesa)
Friendship
is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person,
having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
-- George Eliot
The
glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor
the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is
the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers
that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust
him with his friendship.
-- Ralph
Waldo Emerson
"We
do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence
of their help in need."
-- Epicurus (3rd century B.C.)
"Friends
show their love in times of trouble..."
-- Euripides (408 B.C.)
"One
loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."
-- Euripides (408 B.C.)
A
quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie
to friendship.
-- St. Francis De Sales
Be
slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
-- Benjamin
Franklin
"A
good friend is my nearest relation."
-- Thomas Fuller (1732)
"My
friend is he who will tell me my faults in private."
-- Solomon Ibn Gabirol
"It
is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But
to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy
is the quintessence of true religion. The other is
mere business."
-- Mohandas
K. Gandhi
True
friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
--Dave Tyson Gentry
"Your
friend is your needs answered."
-- Kahil Gibran
"Let
there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of
the spirit."
-- Kahil Gibran.
"Let
your best be for your friend..."
-- Kahil Gibran
"In
the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and
sharing of pleasures."
-- Kahil Gibran
"Friendship
multiplies the good of life and divides the evil."
-- Baltasar Gracian (1647)
Friendship
needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the
anguish of loneliness. -- Dag
Hammarskjold
"Friends
are the sunshine of life."
-- John Hay (1871)
Friendship
reaches well above all currency.
-- Robert M. Hensel
"The
best mirror is an old friend."
--George Herbert
Don't
flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say
disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you
come into relation with a person, the more necessary do
tact and courtesy become.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
"A
sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother."
-- Homer (9th century B.C.)
"Your
friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes
you."
-- Elbert Hubbard
"Who
finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure."
-- Jewish saying
"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."
-- Samuel Johnson
The
friendship which is to be practised or expected by common
mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and
must end when the power ceases of delighting each other.
-- Samuel Johnson
The
best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility
of other nations and makes friends of them.
-- Helen
Keller
"However
rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."
-- La Rochefoucauld (1665)
"A
true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that
which we take the least care to acquire."
-- La Rochefoucauld (1665)
Friendship
arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the
companions discover that they have in common some insight
or interest or even taste which the others do not share
and which, till that moment, each believed to be his own
unique treasure (or burden). The typical expression of
opening Friendship would be something like, "What? You
too? I thought I was the only one." . . . . It is when
two such person discover one another, when, whether with
immense difficulties and semi-articulate fumblings or
with what would seem to us amazing and elliptical speed,
they share their vision - it is then that Friendship is
born. And instantly they stand together in an immense
solitude.
-- C.S. Lewis
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"I
destroy my enemies when I make them my friends."
-- Abraham
Lincoln
"I
shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.
I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, who has sight so keen and strong
That it can follow the flight of song?
Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend."
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"If
you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to
work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
-- Nelson
Mandela
"A
true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good
egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked."
-- Bernard Meltzer.
"You
can make more friends in two months by becoming really
interested in other people, than you can in two years
by trying to get other people interested in you."
-- Bernard Meltzer
A
real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world
walks out. Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
-- Mencius
"Hold
a true friend with both your hands."
-- Nigerian proverb
I
cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one
of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.
-- Anais Nin
"Each
friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not
born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting
that a new world is born."
-- Anaïs Nin (1903-1977)
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
and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing,
not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness,
that is a friend who cares.
-- Henri Nouwen
"Love
is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than
love."
-- Charles Peguy
"There
can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom."
-- William
Penn
Friendship
is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and
the bond thereof virtue
-- William
Penn
That
friendship will not continue to the end which is begun
for an end.
-- Francis Quareles
"Peace
is not made with friends. Peace is made with enemies."
--Yitzhak
Rabin
Peace
is achieved one person at a time, through a series of
friendships.
--Fatma Reda
Friendship
with oneself is all-important because without it
one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
-- Eleanor
Roosevelt
"Before
we can make friends with anyone else, we must first
make friends with ourselves."
--
Eleanor
Roosevelt
We
have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said that
the only way to have a friend is to be one. We can
gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion
or mistrust or with fear.
-- Franklin
Delano Roosevelt
"To
like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a
solid friendship."
-- Sallust (1st century B.C.)
Good
friends must not always be together; It is the feeling
of oneness when distant That proves a lasting friendship.
-- Susan P. Schultz
“I
know that the purpose of life is to understand and be
in the present moment with the people you love. It’s just
that simple.” - Jane Seymour
"One
who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a
friend better than any possession."
-- Sophocles (409 BC)
"No
man is useless while he has a friend."
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
So
long as we are loved by others I should say that we are
almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has
a friend.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
"A
friend is a present you give yourself."
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends,
the noblest, the most sacred—that of keeping their
own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . .
If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting
without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true
friend.
-- Harriet
Beecher Stowe
"Life
is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made
by the friends whom we choose."
-- Tehyi Hsieh
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Every
child deserves a chance at a life
filled with love, laughter, friends and family.
--
Marlo
Thomas
Every
child deserves a chance
at a life filled with love,
laughter, friends and family.
--
Marlo
Thomas
*
"Friends
. . . They are kind to each other's hopes. They cherish
each other's dreams."
-- Henry
David Thoreau
"Grief
can take care of
itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must
have somebody to divide it with." -- Mark
Twain
"A
true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd
rather be anywhere else."
-- Len Wein
"You
cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon
the terms of equality." -- Woodrow
Wilson
A
real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world
walks out.
--Walter Winchell
For
more Inspiring thoughts on friendship here are two books
that you'll treasure like friends:
A
BOOK OF FRIENDSHIP, by Dr. Rudolp Brasch (Angus
& Robertson\HarperCollins, 1982).
This book is a wonderful celebration of friendship.
It is filled with inspiring stories of friendship
and sprinkled with uplifting quotes.
KINDRED
SPIRITS: Meditations on Family and Friends, edited
by Peg Streep, with paintings by Claudia Karabaic
Sargent. (Viking Studio Books, 1995).
This is a beautifully illustrated book of quotations
and literary passages that honor friendship. The
selections are inspiring, and the accompanying
illustrations are exquisitely breathtaking.
