Quotes About Friendship

Moments recalled like friends. It was that way or another. We're fairly certain either way. Stories. They are with us. Time doesn't forsake. It doesn't soothe or decrease. Never.

PÃ…â"¢átelství už jsou taková - kÃ…â"¢ehké konstrukce, které vydrží nápor bouÃ…â"¢e, a pÃ…â"¢esto se mohou rozpadnout na tisíc kousk? bez konkrétního d?vodu. KÃ…â"¢ehké jako bÃ…â"¢idlice.

Agora, Cato preferira regressar às casernas depois da instrução. Era imprescindível fazer amigos quanto antes, pensou. Mas como? E quem? Os outros tinham constituído pequenos grupos durante a viagem desde Avêntico, enquanto ele passara o tempo a ler o maldito Virgílio, recordou com súbita fúria. Dava tudo para voltar a iniciar aquela viagem, sabendo o que sabia agora.

judges in seventeenth-century France were discouraged from socializing on the grounds that friends and acquaintances might one day be called before the court.

I quickly realized that friendships without tomorrows, and the little anguishes of parting, were part of the pleasures of traveling. I resolutely avoided bores, saw only those who amused me. We spent afternoons taking long walks, nights drinking and talking, and then we would leave each other, never to meet again, and there were no regrets. How simple life was. No regrets, no obligations, my acts and gestures counted for nothing, no one asked my advice, and I knew no other rule but my whims.

In the old days the worst part of my depression used to be the astonishment it caused me, the scandalized way in which I fought against it. Nowadays, on the other hand, I accept it cheerfully enough, like an old familiar friend.

Y con la amistad pasa como con el amor físico: para que sea auténtica tiene que ser ante todo libre.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion

Ils tenaient beaucoup à respecter les nuances de leurs rapports. Une amitié est un délicat édifice; elle s'accommode de certains partages mais elle réclame aussi des monopoles. Chacune des combinaisons que nous formions - à deux, à trois, à quatre - avait sa physionomie et ses agréments: il convenait de ne pas sacrifier cette diversité.

Ce n'est donc pas l'amitié qui brisera la solitude où l'homme s'est enfermé; il n'est jamais possible à un individu de partager les joies et les peines d'un autre, ni même de les comprendre. Les êtres sont impénétrables, les consciences sont incommunicables; dans l'amour, l'amitié, dans toutes les affections, chacun reste pour l'autre un mystérieux étranger.

Comprendí en seguida que formaban parte de los placeres de los viajes las amistades sin futuro y el leve desgarramieto de las despedidas.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion.

Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).

There are two forms of friendship: meeting and separation. They are indissoluble. Both of them contain some good, and this good of friendship is unique, for when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation. As both forms contain the same good thing, they are both equally good.

But we can be nearly sure that those whose love for God has caused their pure loves here below to disappear are false friends of God.   Our neighbour, our friends, religious ceremonies and the beauty of the world do not fall in rank to unreal things after direct contact between God and the soul. On the contrary, only then do these things become real. Previously, they were half-dreams. Previously, they had no reality.

But your greatest blessing was of another order. In gaining my friendship through your charity— I have never encountered its equal— you have furnished me with a source of inspiration more powerful and more pure that one could find among human things. For nothing among human things is as powerful for maintaining our gaze, applied ever more intensely on God, than friendship with the friends of God.

Friendship is a miracle by which a person consents to view from a certain distance, and without coming any nearer, the very being who is necessary to him as food. It requires the strength of soul that Eve did not have; and yet she had no need of the fruit. If she had been hungry at the moment she looked at the fruit, and if in spite of that she had remained looking at it indefinitely without taking one step toward it, she would have performed a miracle analogous to that of perfect friendship.

You have provided me with a source of the most compelling and pure inspiration that is to be found among human things, for nothing… has such power to keep our gaze fixed ever more intensely upon god, than friendship for the friends of god.

Let us love this distance which is thoroughly woven with friendship, since those who do not love each other are not separated

A amizade não se procura, não se imagina, não se deseja; exercita-se (é uma virtude)

It is good to reflect about whatever forces us to come out of ourselves. I have difficulty in imagining how it can be that you really have some friendship for me; but as you apparently have, it may be for this purpose.

Every dream of friendship deserves to be shattered. It is not by chance that you have never been loved…. To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice.

Christ toujours présent entre deux vrais amis. Réciproquement la parole « Si deux ou trois.... » est la promesse de l'amitié humaine à ses amis.

Soon there will be distance between us. Let us love this distance that is wholly woven of friendship, for those who do not love each other cannot be separated.