I define friendship as a bond that transcends all barriers. When you are ready to expect anything and everything from friends, good, bad or ugly… that’s what I call true friendship.

There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.

I sacrificed a lot, in terms of friendship and family, from working so much at such a young age, but I wouldn’t be where I am if I hadn’t.

Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs

We ought to cherish the body. Our body’s substance is not from an evil principle, as the Manicheans imagine, but from God. And therefore, we ought to cherish the body by the friendship of love, by which we love God

Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship

Happiness is the gift of friends; it is born out of human relationships

The best mirror is an old friend.

Sometimes you simply needed someone kind to sit with you while you dealt with things.

We could all do with some silence, just sitting back
in a dark theater and watching humans living and working and
discovering their affinities without any words.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time. This he had never experienced at Judge Miller’s down in the sun-kissed Santa Clara Valley. With the Judge’s sons, hunting and tramping, it had been a working partnership; with the Judge’s grandsons, a sort of pompous guardianship; and with the Judge himself, a stately and dignified friendship. But love that was feverish and burning, that was adoration, that was madness, it had taken John Thornton to arouse.

I enjoyed the meetings, too. It was like having friends.

What’s most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty.

Anyone who is willing to end a relationship because of a reasoned difference of opinion is not worthy of your friendship.

A successful marriage requires commitment to teamwork.

My philosophy is that I am a friend of the children. I don’t think anyone should see them as pitiable subjects or charity. That is old people’s rhetoric. People often relate childish behaviour to stupidity or foolishness. This mindset needs to change. I want to level the playing field where I can learn from the children. Something I can learn from children is transparency. They are innocent, straightforward, and have no biases. I relate children to simplicity and I think that my friendship with children has a much deeper meaning than others.

The joy of baseball is in the camaraderie of teammates and the friendship of rivals

All I have in this world is a place that’s mine, a few good friends and a few good lines, a couple pairs of shoes that I love that shine and I walk in peace.

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat

It is a difficult matter to gain the affection of a cat. He is a philosophical, methodical animal, tenacious of his own habits, fond of order and neatness, and disinclined to extravagant sentiment. He will be your friend, if he finds you worthy of friendship, but not your slave

The intimacy which is contracted in infancy, and friendship which is formed in misfortune, are, of all others, the most lasting and unalterable

And as to you, Sir, treacherous in private friendship and a hypocrite in public life, the world will be puzzled to decide whether you are an apostate or an impostor; whether you have abandoned good principles, or whether you ever had any

The reformation was preceded by the discovery of America, as if the Almighty graciously meant to open a sanctuary to the persecuted in future years, when home should afford neither friendship nor safety

He was a product of a culture where it was generally counterproductive to hold grudges.

Time after time during the next six months, he would put me together again.

His charm was not electric, but it was enveloping.

One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.

But, of course, it isn’t really Good-bye, because the Forest will always be there… and anybody who is Friendly with Bears can find it.

We’ll be friends until forever, just you wait and see

Friendship,” said Christopher Robin, “is a very comforting thing to have.

Kipps was unprepared for the unpleasant truth; that the path of social advancement is and must be strewn with broken friendships.

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

‘Friendship,’ Marx said, ‘is kind of like having a Tamagotchi.’

The way to turn an ex-lover into a friend is to never stop loving them, to know that when one phase of a relationship ends it can transform into something else. It is to acknowledge that love is both a constant and a variable at the same time.

Cause they say home is where your heart is set in stone, it’s where you go when’re you’re alone, its were you go to rest your bones. It’s not just where you lay your head, it’s not just where you make your bead. As long as we’re together does it matter where we go?

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man’s milk and restorative cordial.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine

People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people.

It is happiness if you laugh together, If you cry together, it is friendship; but if you are silent together, this is real love.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one’s children just because they are one’s children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Power will be maintained by the groovy guy or gal who gets the most media coverage for his sleaze. Naturally, his friends in various businesses will do okay, too

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.

The greater the Difficulty the more Glory in surmounting it, and the loss of false Joys secures to us a much better Possession of real ones.

Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can and does not want to.
If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent.
If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked.
If, as they say, God can abolish evil, and God really wants to do it, why is there evil in the world?

We cannot live pleasantly without living wisely and nobly and righteously.

If you would enjoy real freedom, you must be the slave of Philosophy.

We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Most men are in a coma when they are at rest and mad when they act.

The wise man neither rejects life nor fears death… just as he does not necessarily choose the largest amount of food, but, rather, the pleasantest food, so he prefers not the longest time, but the most pleasant.

The acquisition of riches has been for many men, not an end, but a change, of troubles.

I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo)

What will happen to me if that which this desire seeks is achieved, and what if it is not?

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men in their various relations with each other, in whatever circumstances they may be, that they will neither injure nor be injured.

The noble soul occupies itself with wisdom and friendship.

The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends

We’ll find out what we’re made of When we are called to help our friends in need

When our friends talk about you, all it does is just tear me down ‘Cause my heart breaks a little when I hear your name

I live in Puerto Rico, my family lives in Puerto Rico, my friends. What happens in Puerto Rico matters to melive in Puerto Rico, my family lives in Puerto Rico, my friends. What happens in Puerto Rico matters to me

Friendship cant end just because you change your life.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Have no friends not equal to yourself.

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

My friends, there are no friends.

You see, in this world there’s two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig.

My mum and I have an incredible friendship now after a mixture of pain, honesty, unconditional love and a long break from each other.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work but the solidest things we know.

Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character, a person that is uniform in his intimacy.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

The real friendship is like fluorescence, it shines better when everything has darken.

Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.

A goat does not eat into a hen’s stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.

We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.

If you become furious with every injustice, then you are my friend

The best and most beautiful thing in life is friendship that springs out of the heart, as fragrances out of the flower.

Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.

To help a friend in need is easy, but giving him your time is not always opportune.

We are one in Christ; let us be friends with one another; but let us never be friends with one another’s error. If I be wrong, rebuke me sternly; I can bear it, and bear it cheerfully; and if ye be wrong, expect the like measure from me, and neither peace nor parley with your mistakes.

A friend to everybody is often a friend to nobody.

If we would always recollect that we live among men who are imperfect, we should not be in such a fever when we find out our friend’s failings.

Be friendly to all, but make none your friends until they know you, and you know them.

Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.

Friendship depends on trust, not money, not power, not mere education or knowledge. Only if there is trust will there be friendship.

If we are sincere in taking care of others, if we protect their lives and respect their rights, we’ll be able to conduct our lives transparently and that is the basis of trust, which in turn is the basis of friendship.

Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops… If you are always showing a bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun.

A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Sometimes I wanna be with people that remind me of who I am. If I tell my friends I want some soda or I want a beer, they will tell me

There’s more, much more, to Christmas than candlelight and cheer. It’s the spirit of sweet friendship that brightens all year. It’s thoughtfulness and kindness. It’s hope reborn again, for peace, for understanding, and for goodwill to men

I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

It is when two such persons 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

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities

In a perfect Friendship this Appreciative love is, I think, often so great and so firmly based that each member of the circle feels, in his secret heart, humbled before the rest. Sometimes he wonders what he is doing there among his betters. He is lucky beyond desert to be in such company. Especially when the whole group is together; each bringing out all that is best, wisest, or funniest in all the others

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship

Are not all lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even in the best) of that something which you were born desiring, and which, beneath the flux of other desires and in all the momentary silences between the louder passions, night and day, year by year, from childhood to old age, you are looking for, watching for, listening for?

A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

Now we’ll start this band of robbers and call it Tom Sawyer’s gang. Everybody that wants to join has got to take an oath, and write his name in blood.

Between me and my roommate, we’ve hit 400 Major League home runs.

Love, friendship, laughter some of the best things in life really are free.

I been meek, and hard like an oak, i seen pretty people disappear like smoke. friends will arrive, friends will disappear. if you want me, honey baby, i’ll be here.

You’ve got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend. When I was down you just stood there a grining

Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone.

We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy

The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.

When your vision is powerful enough, everything else falls into place: how you live your life, your workouts, what friends you choose to hang out with, how you eat, what you do for fun. Vision is a purpose, and when your purpose is clear, so are your life choices. Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith, there is no anxiety, no doubt – just absolute confidence.

I make a great difference between people. I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. I have not got one who is a fool. They are all men of some intellectual power, and consequently they all appreciate me. Is that very vain of me? I think it is rather vain

I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.

O friend, for the morrow let us not worry
This moment we have now, let us not hurry
When our time comes, we shall not tarry
With seven thousand-year-olds, our burden carry

Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.

Make a list of your friends and determine who is the most positive thinker among them and deliberately cultivate his society.

Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

I wanted to make people feel really good when they listen to this. The thing that my friends say when they listen to this album is, ‘This feels like the girl we hang out with.’ When they listen they’re like, ‘This is our friend

Friendly reminder to be nice to yourself. We often make things harder for ourselves than they actually are. Be good to your brain

We didn’t have any mafia ties. I feel like we knew some of the mafia but we were not involved for sure. I do know somewhere down the line there were some friendships. No mafia ties though, it wasn’t something I bragged about

A woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages – first an acquaintance, then a mistress, and after that a friend.

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

The reason for my starting a diary is that I have no real friends

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.

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius

Friendship is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her

If you are a friend, why do you bite me so hard? If an enemy, why do you fawn on me?

He is not to be trusted as a friend who illtreats his own family.

The loiterer often imputes delay to his more active friend

Equals make the best friends.

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy.

No man is so poor as not to have many valuable friends

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing