Quotes About Friendship

We need to be angels for each other, to give each other strength and consolation. Because only when we fully realize that the cup of life is not only a cup of sorrow but also a cup of joy will we be able to drink it.

Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place. It is not to bring men and women over to our side, but to offer freedom not disturbed by dividing lines.

Dare to love and to be a real friend. The love you give and receive is a reality that will lead you closer and closer to God as well as those whom God has given you to love.

Paris'te ayn? evi payla?t???m Betty Rayn adl? k?z olmasayd? Yunanistan'a belki de hiç gitmeyecektim.

Det värsta är inte att man förlorar sina pengar utan att man förlorar sina rika vänner.

A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was an avatar. One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

She pondered: Was it worth the feelings of sadness and melancholy to make a friend and then lose him? Would she rather not have the heartache of losing a friend and not have the memory of friendship? No, she decided, no.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

My friend is one who takes me for what I am.

Even the death of friends will inspire us as much as their lives…. Their memories will be encrusted over with sublime and pleasing thoughts, as monuments of other men are overgrown with moss; for our friends have no place in the graveyard.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

The Friend asks no return but that his Friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Faint heart never won true friend. O my friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my friend I may be yours.

Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life.

How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we may go and meet their ideal cousins.

My friend is one... who take me for what I am.

One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then.

The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our friends' thoughts of us were of so pure and lofty a character that they passed over us like the winds of heaven unnoticed when they treated us not as what we were, but as what we aspired to be. -- from A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.