Friendship Quotes

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Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

- Henry David Thoreau

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back: a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

- Anais Nin

It is not the gift, but the thought that counts.

- Henry Van Dyke

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

- Melody Beattie

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We don't need sugar, flour or rice or anything else. We just want to see our dear ones.

- Hafiz of Persia

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

- Margaret Mead

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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 Miller

Even after all this time,
The sun never says to the earth,
"You owe me."
Look what happens with
A love like that.
It lights the whole sky.

- Hafiz of Persia

You can make it, but it's easier if you don't have to do it alone.

- Betty Ford

In the spiritual life nowhere do our ideals meet the actual more truly than in how we relate to each other, in how we make, sustain and are friends.

- James Ishmael Ford

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.

- Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.

- Robin Morgan

How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might go and meet their ideal cousins.

- Henry David Thoreau

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

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

- Elbert Hubbard

The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.

- Francis Bacon

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

- Karl Menninger

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

- Rowan D. Williams

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

- Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

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