Quotes About Friendship

Love is a rare herb that makes a friend even of a sworn enemy and this herb grows out of nonviolence.

I couldn't believe Sam actually got me a present because i honestly thought the "I love you" was it.

When you're all alone, love one another.

You know who your true friends are when things go wrong for you, but the opposite is also true. When things go well, the people who really love you are happy.

Look at us, we are the three Nina, Mel, and there's Avery Shout it loud, then shout it louder Shout it out, Triangle Power!

You'll like it here, she said. Pix is nice. She's an archaeologist? And anthropologist. She collects teeth. Who doesn't? he said.

No one is as real to me as people in the novel. It grows like a living thing. When I realize they do not exist except in my mind I have a feeling of sadness, looking around for them, as if the half-empty cafe were a place I had once come to with friends who had all moved away.

Somehow a group of middle-aged men had transformed themselves into the immature kids they'd been back in their college days.

They had become good enough friends to allow the other silence

To a friend you give yourself away, and you get yourself back bigger and stronger.

Man kann alles erzählen, nur nicht sein wirkliches Leben; – diese Unmöglichkeit ist es, was uns verurteilt zu bleiben, wie unsere Gefährten uns sehen und spiegeln, sie, die vorgeben, mich zu kennen, sie, die sich als meine Freunde bezeichnen und nimmer gestatten, daß ich mich wandle [...].

Betray. The word is an eighth of an inch above betroth in the dictionary, but a world from betroth in life. It's a weapon found only in the hands of one you love. Your enemy has no such tool, for only a friend can betray. Betrayal is mutiny. It's a violation of a trust, an inside job.

To others, Jesus was a miracle worker. To others, Jesus was a master teacher. To others, Jesus was the hope of Israel. But to John, he was all of these and more. To John, Jesus was a friend. You don't abandon a friend—not even when that friend is dead. John stayed close to Jesus.

Mucha gente tiene pensamientos limitados sobre Dios. En un esfuerzo por verlo como nuestro amigo, hemos perdido de vista su inmensidad. En nuestro deseo de entenderlo, hemos intentado contenerlo.

John teaches us that the strongest relationship with Christ may not necessarily be a complicated one. He teaches us that the greatest webs of loyalty are spun, not with airtight theologies or foolproof philosophies, but with friendships: stubborn, selfless, joyful friendships.

Make the most of your relationships. Follow the advice of Benjamin Franklin: "Be slow in choosing friends and be even slower in leaving them.

Proverbs 27:5–6 5It is better to correct someone openly than to have love and not show it. 6The slap of a friend can be trusted to help you, but the kisses of an enemy are nothing but lies.

How could viewing the Lord as a faithful friend who greets you in the early morning for a long walk or a conversation over coffee shape the way you see your current situation?

Take time to meet with the Lord as a friend this week. Rest, knowing he sees and he feels along with you more than anyone else in your life can.

In our loneliest moments the One who formed our "inmost being and knitted us together in the womb" offers us a friendship, a nearness unlike any other. God created our inmost and our outermost beings. He knows us emotionally, physically, and mentally better than anyone else.

As long as you think you can handle all of your problems by yourself, you don't need a problem-fixer. As long as you are feeling happy, you don't need comfort. As long as you would rather follow your friends Monday through Saturday and follow Jesus only on Sunday, you're not really following Him at all. Because He wants all of you every day, not just a little bit on Sunday.

I never met a teddy I didn't like.

If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.

If you make friends with yourself, you'll never be alone.