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Quotes About Friendship

To become reconciled to a friend with whom you have broken, is a form of weakness; and you pay the penalty of it when he takes the first opportunity of doing precisely the very thing which brought about the breach.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Do mesmo modo que o papel-moeda circula no lugar da prata, também no mundo, no lugar da estima verdadeira e da amizade autêntica, circulam as suas demonstrações exteriores e os seus gestos imitados do modo mais natural possível. Por outro lado, poder-se-ia perguntar se há pessoas que de facto merecem essa estima e essa amizade. Em todo o caso, dou mais valor aos abanos de cauda de um cão leal do que a cem daquelas demonstrações e gestos.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Die Freunde nennen sich aufrichtig; die Feinde sind es: daher man ihren Tadel zur Selbsterkenntnis benutzen sollte, als eine bittre Arznei
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Kdo je pÃ…â"¢ítelem vÅ¡ech, není pÃ…â"¢ítelem nikoho.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Ludzie zawsze s? gotowi do ?miechu, a ci, co si? ?miej?, s? po naszej stronie.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
At home there were cards and calls from friends and family. I heard from people I had not seen in years and was surprised they even knew I had cancer. These messages in particular gave me what I think ill people need most, a sense that many others, more than you can think of, care deeply that you live.
~ Arthur W. Frank
Enemies can't break your spirit, only friends can.
~ Arundhati Roy
Et tu, Caesar? Then fall, Caesar. Et tu, Estha? Then fall, Estha.
~ Arundhati Roy
There was no tour guide on hand to tell her that in Kashmir nightmares were promiscuous. They were unfaithful to their owners, they cartwheeled wantonly into other people's dreams, they acknowledged no precincts, they were the greatest ambush artists of all. No fortification, no fence-building could keep them in check. In Kashmir the only thing to do with nightmares was to embrace them like old friends and manage them like old enemies.
~ Arundhati Roy
He looked cheerful, as though he was with an imaginary friend whose company he enjoyed.
~ Arundhati Roy
In battle, Musa told Tilo, enemies can't break your spirit, only friends can
~ Arundhati Roy
Not many noticed the passing of the friendly old birds. There was so much else to look forward to.
~ Arundhati Roy
There was no tour guide on hand to tell her that in Kashmir nightmares were promiscuous. That they were unfaithful to their owners, they cartwheeled wantonly into other people's dreams, they acknowledged no precincts, they were the greatest ambush artists of all. No fortification, no fence-building could keep them in check. In Kashmir the only thing to do with nightmares was to embrace them like old friends and manage them like old enemies.
~ Arundhati Roy
stay. I nearly asked to see her again. Just to talk, I wanted to say. To talk to someone who enjoys listening.
~ Ashley Gardner
A good book is like a good friend, do you know, Lacey? One you can turn to when the night is cold and you are lonely.
~ Ashley Gardner
Friends are hard to find. In a lifetime you only get a few. And when you find them, you always know them by sight and heart alone, you always grow a little bit taller in your soul , and you know you have been blessed just to know them.
~ Ashley Rice
Studies find that as people grow older they interact with fewer people and concentrate more on spending time with family and established friends. They focus on being rather than doing and on the present more than the future. Understanding
~ Atul Gawande
It is not death that the very old tell me they fear. It is what happens short of death—losing their hearing, their memory, their best friends, their way of life.
~ Atul Gawande
I never expected that among the most meaningful experiences I'd have as a doctor—and, really, as a human being—would come from helping others deal with what medicine cannot do as well as what it can. But it's proved true, whether with a patient like Jewel Douglass, a friend like Peg Bachelder, or someone I loved as much as my father.
~ Atul Gawande
It is not death that the very old tell me they fear. It is what happens short of death—losing their hearing, their memory, their best friends, their way of life. As Felix put it to me, "Old age is a continuous series of losses.
~ Atul Gawande
That fall, they moved in a greyhound named Target, a lapdog named Ginger, the four cats, and the birds. They threw out all their artificial plants and put live plants in every room. Staff members brought their kids to hang out after school; friends and family put in a garden at the back of the home and a playground for the kids. It was shock therapy.
~ Atul Gawande
Studies find that as people grow older they interact with fewer people and concentrate more on spending time with family and established friends
~ Atul Gawande
Several months passed before I saw Vince Caselli again.
~ Atul Gawande
and I called him to see how he was doing.
~ Atul Gawande