Quotes About Friendship

She'd Shot A Man & Found A Friend - Maggie Allison

I die. I breathe in and breahe in and cannot exhale. I explode all over my friends. They forget my name and pretend it is dung. They wash off in the square and the well becomes polluted. All die. O the embarrassment.

What Mr. Albee most desires is for the Model UN, the entire group of them, all eleven, even the scoundrel Quinn, to be there waiting, when he gets home each dreary night, and there again when he awakes in the morning, all of them politely debating one another with their resplendent voices, their hearts—which have not yet been broken by anything more serious than an unrequited crush or an unfair grade—quietly aglow with everything.

Lending books to other people is merely a shrewd form of housecleaning.

The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied. To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here. Fathers and mothers, husbands, wives, or children, or the company of earthly friends, are but shadows; but God is the substance. These are but scattered beams, but God is the sun. These are but streams, but God is the fountain. These are but drops; but God is the ocean.16

Puritan Thomas Gataker (1574–1654) said, "There is no society [relationship][3] more near, more entire, more needful, more kindly, more delightful, more comfortable, more constant, more continual, than the society of man and wife."[4] By the grace of God, such friendship between husbands and wives is possible and practical and should be our priority.

Az egész reneszánsz ezt a vágyképet dédelgette, fák alatt meghúzódó, h?vös házban jó és bölcs barátok csendes, der?s, mégis komoly társalgásának a képét. Nyugalom és harmónia. Az egész évszázad az egyszer?ség, Å'szinteség, igazság és természetesség megvalósítására törekedett.

The most beautiful thing of all, though, is to be able to shake hands again with an old friend, as in days gone by; it is a great comfort to find again, what we have treasured.

The happiest of all things is when an old friend comes and greets us as in former times; the heart is comforted with the assurance that someday everything that we have loved will be given back to us.—

Ah, Heidi, that brings light to the heart! What comfort you have brought me!

Thomas Jefferson still survives

Every spouse is a potential best friend.

Friendship is not more of going out to look for friends; but rather being a true friend.

Friendship with children unwraps their hidden potentials.

Friendship is not about manipulating people; but rather inspiring them to reach their potentials.

In all your love relationships, hide in friendship. It will protect you and keep your love forever.

Friendship is not a system for taking advantage of people; but rather a relationship for empowering people to be better than they used to be.

In all your love relationships, stay in friendship. It will protect you and keep your love forever.

Your deficiency in friendship is traceable to your fundamental friendship knowledge from your family.

True friendship is not based on intentional reciprocity; but rather sharing from a cheerful heart.

Friendship with children creates obedient people in society.

Friendship with children eliminates the propensity for suicide in society.

When love hurts you, friendship will heal you.

Friendship with children increases the pleasure of life.