Quotes About Friendship

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation.

Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

We talk of choosing our friends, but our friends are self-elected.

Let us even bid our dearest friends farewell, and defy them, saying, Who are you? Unhand me: I will be dependent no more. Ah! seest thou not, O brother, that thus we part only to meet again on a higher platform, and only be more each other's, because we are more our own?

If we are related, we shall meet. It was a tradition of the ancient world, that no metamorphosis could hide a god from a god; and there is a Greek verse which runs, The Gods are to each other not unknown. Friends also follow the laws of divine necessity; they gravitate to each other, and cannot otherwise.

Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.

An Eastern poet, Ali Ben Abu Taleb, writes with sad truth, — He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

Keep your friendships in repair.

I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with the roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know.

The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. The soul environs itself with friends, that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude; and it goes alone for a season, that it may exalt its conversation or society.

Life goes headlong. We chase some flying scheme, or we are hunted by some fear or command behind us. But if suddenly we encounter a friend, we pause; our heat and hurry look foolish enough; now pause, now possession, is required, and the power to swell the moment from the resources of the heart. The moment is all, in all noble relations.

My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.

I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.

Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door, and say, 'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me, I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act. "What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love.

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it's the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship.

The purpose of life seems to be to acquaint a man with himself and whatever science or art or course of action he engages in reacts upon and illuminates the recesses of his own mind. Thus friends seem to be only mirrors to draw out and explain to us ourselves; and that which draws us nearer our fellow man, is, that the deep Heart in one, answers the deep Heart in another, -- that we find we have (a common Nature) -- one life which runs through all individuals, and which is indeed Divine.

Me too thy nobleness has taught To master my despair; The fountains of my hidden life Are through thy friendship fair.

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It is better to be the thorn in the side of your friend than his echo

Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine