Quotes About Friendship

She said that whenever she feels the old insidious chill of loneliness beginning to creep back into her life, she picks up the phone and calls someone who may be lonelier than she is.

The final and best antidote for worry is simply this: Image Jesus Christ as actually your personal friend.

here is your own magic staff. Use it well and there is nothing it cannot do for you." He placed in Milo's breast pocket a small gleaming pencil which, except for the size, was much like his own. Then, with a last word of encouragement, he and the Dodecahedron (who was simultaneously sobbing, frowning, pining, and sighing from four of his saddest faces) made their farewells and watched as the three tiny figures disappeared into the forbidding Mountains of Ignorance.

the front seat with his alarm again ringing furiously. "Are you all right?" shouted Milo. "Umphh," grunted Tock. "Sorry to get carried away, but I think you get the point." As they drove along, Tock continued to explain the importance of time, quoting the old philosophers and poets and illustrating each point with gestures that brought him perilously close to tumbling headlong from the speeding automobile.

Love and large-hearted giving, when added together, can leave deep marks.It is never easy to cover these marks, dear friends—never easy.

But the best, in my opinion, was the home life in the little flat--the ardent, voluble chats after the day's study; the cozy dinners and fresh, light breakfasts; the interchange of ambitions--ambitions interwoven each with the other's or else inconsiderable--the mutual help and inspiration; and--overlook my artlessness--stuffed olives and cheese sandwiches at 11 p.m.

And most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another, being oft associated, until not even obituary notices them do part.

But in the case of human beings, friendship is a transitory art, subject to discontinuance without further notice.

Hay 3 clases de amistad: por interés o utilidad, por placer y la amistad perfecta, la de los hombres de bien y semejantes en virtud, porque éstos se desean igualmente el bien.

La elección y la exclusividad son condiciones que la amistad comparte con el amor. La amistad nace de la comunidad y de la coincidencia en las ideas, en los sentimientos o en los intereses. El amor nace de un flechazo; la amistad es el intercambio frecuente y prolongado. El amor es instantáneo; la amistad requiere tiempo.

El amor es trágico; añado que la amistad es una respuesta a la tragedia.

El amor nace también de la elección... su fuego.. es más activo, punzante, ávido; pero es un fuego temerario y voluble... un fuego febril. ...El de la amistad es un calor parejo y universal, templado... un calor constante y tranquilo, todo dulzura y pulimiento, sin asperezas.

Work is not your enemy but your friend. How you work, not what you do, determines the course of your life. You may work grudgingly or you may work gratefully; you may work as a human or you may work as a robot. There is no work so rude that you may not exalt in it; no work so demeaning that you cannot breathe soul into it; no work so dull that you may not enliven it.

I will greet this day with love in my heart. And how will I speak? I will laud mine enemies and they will become friends; I will encourage my friends and they will become brothers. Always will I dig for reasons to applaud; never will I scratch for excuses to gossip. When I am tempted to criticize I will bite on my tongue; when I am moved to praise I will shout from the roofs.

I will know that only those with inferior ability can always be at their best, and I am not inferior. There will be days when I must constantly struggle against forces which would tear me down. Those such as despair and sadness are simple to recognize but there are others which approach with a smile and the hand of friendship and they can also destroy me. Against them, too, I must never relinquish control—

I will encourage my friends and they will become brothers. Always will I dig for reasons to applaud; never will I scratch for excuses to gossip.

Ain't the best prayin' jest bein' with God and talkin' a while, like He's a good friend, stead a-like he runs a store and you've come in a-hopin' to git a bargain?

I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.

The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Death is never easy when you know the people doing the dying.

Olivia Goldsmith

Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.

I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself.