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If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends -- you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
- Alice Duer Miller
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How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might go and meet their ideal cousins.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Nobody sees a flower -- really -- it is so small it takes time -- we haven't time -- and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.
- Georgia O'Keeffe
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The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
- Francis Bacon
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We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
- Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
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There is nothing we like to see so much as the gleam of pleasure in a person's eye when he feels that we have sympathized with him, understood him. At these moments something fine and spiritual passes between two friends. These are the moments worth living.
- Don Marquis
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The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elizabeth Foley
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We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
- Arthur Ashe
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If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
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A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.
- Bertrand Russell
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Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
- Blaise Pascal
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Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
- Albert Camus
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There is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and changes the relationship forever.
- Rollo May
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
- Samuel Coleridge
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