Quotes About Friendship

That your friend is succeeding does not mean you are failing.

Someone's darkness disappears when you show up and allow your light to shine

Friendship cannot become permanent unless it becomes spiritual. There must be fellowship in the deepest things of the soul, community in the highest thoughts, sympathy with the best endeavors.

Once you find someone to share your ups and downs, downs are almost as good as ups.

Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as it is nourished with kindness, sympathy, and understanding.

I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.

When you sympathize with a married woman you either make two enemies or gain one wife and one friend.

To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world--without friends or country, home or kindred.

There are moments in life when all we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us; our wounds would wince at the touch of consoling words, that would reveal the depths of our pain.

If you want sympathy, look for a friend, but if you want honesty, an enemy might be the best friend you ever had.

Don't act so callous to blank out good friends who failed on their way to success, just because something unusual hindered them, but you meandered out by a stroke of luck.

How bless'd the heart that has a friend. A sympathizing ear to lend.

A friend giveth sympathy in trouble.

Literary friendship is a sympathy not of manners, but of feelings.

But better far it is to speak One simple word, which now and then Shall waken their free nature in the weak And friendless sons of men.

When you need someone To talk to Or just to be with you Remember there is someone close by That someone is me

Not everyone who has helped or is helping you wanted or wants to help you.

Rejoice with them that do rejoice and weep with them that weep.

The teachers I've learned the most from, didn't think they were teaching me; they just thought we were friends.

A college education should equip one to entertain three things: a friend, an idea and oneself.

Mindful choosing of friends and lovers, not to mention teachers, is critical to remaining conscious, remaining intuitive, remaining in charge of the fiery light that sees and knows.

Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction.

Every Communist working in the mass movements should be a friend of the masses and not a boss over them, an indefatigable teacher and not a bureaucratic politician.

Rumi called his teacher "the friend." And that's what we need. We need friends.