Quotes About Friendship

It's a sad thing to watch your best friend turn into somebody you don't know anymore. Or even want to know.

Ho un amico che non ama Dickens. Non so se compatirlo o picchiarlo.

Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent

Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.

Be wary of friends—they will betray you more quickly, for they are easily aroused to envy. They also become spoiled and tyrannical. But hire a former enemy and he will be more loyal than a friend, because he has more to prove. In fact, you have more to fear from friends than from enemies. If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

Ouiser, you sound almost chipper. What happened today - you run over a small child or something?" ~Clairee (Steel Magnolias)

It's not the story though, not the friend leaning toward you, saying "And then I realized—," which is the part of stories one never quite believes. I had the idea that the world's so full of pain it must sometimes make a kind of singing. And that the sequence helps, as much as order helps— First an ego, and then pain, and then the singing.

Her eyes the glowworm lend thee,The shooting stars attend thee; And the elves also, Whose little eyes glowLike the sparks of fire, befriend thee.

While friendship itself has an air of eternity about it, seeming to transcend all natural limits, there is hardly any emotion so utterly at the mercy of time. We form friendships, and grow out of them. It might almost be said that we cannot retain the faculty of friendship unless we are continually making new friends.

No man can be a friend of Jesus Christ who is not a friend of his neighbor.

Love bombing" is a related and more extreme strategy for dealing with insecure assholes—you go beyond expressing empathy and holding your tongue, and respond to their nastiness with warmth and kindness. Your aim is to transform your oppressor into a friend and admirer.

Why do we mourn departing friends, Or shake at death's alarms? 'Tis but the voice that Jesus sends To call them to His arms. Why should we tremble to convey Their bodies to the tomb? There the dear flesh of Jesus lay, And left a long perfume. Thence He arose, ascending high, And showed our feet the way; Up to the Lord our flesh shall fly, At the great rising day.

He whom Jesus nameth must be on His side.

Christ has to be more than a friend of the middle and upper classes.

Yet, for most, our journey toward having the healthiest perspective possible is shaped by the way we face and "make friends" with the periodic roadblocks we encounter on our way.

Gypsies make difficult friends for ordinary people, and he was seething of a gypsy.

They were good friends, though they would never understand what lay inside of her, would not understand even if she told them.

Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.

Voltaire had exercised the greatest intellectual influence on Catherine, and Diderot was the only one of the major philosophes she actually met, but it was in Friedrich Melchoir Grimm that the empress found a lifelong friend.

I don't want the books [...] to be too far away; they, also, have become friends. I even feel this way about books I don't own. In libraries, I find myself visiting the books I used before. I regard those rows of memoirs and letters as voices from the past, bound into books, and I like to make sure they are all there, alive and well. If they have collected dust, I take out the small towel I carry in my briefcase and wipe them off. -from 2012 NYT Book Review Essay

Viewmont High School also

Even their downtime was epic.

Life is short, no use wasting it with bad people.