Friendship Quotes

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What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?

- George Eliot

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

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

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

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

- Samuel Coleridge

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True friendship consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and value.

- Ben Jonson

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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

- Marcel Proust

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.

- Indira Gandhi

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

- E. M. Forster

[W]e all need friends with whom we can speak of our deepest concerns, and who do not fear to speak the truth in love to us.

- Margaret Guenther

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The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention.... A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.

- Rachel Naomi Remen

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

- Mark Twain

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All love that has not friendship for its base,
Is like a mansion built upon the sand.

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

- Rabindranath Tagore

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.

- Rachel Carson

Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sign that you will recognize it.

- Simone Weil

How does one keep from "growing old inside"? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people…. Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are indispensable.

- Robert McAfee Brown

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Bereavement in their death to feel
Whom We have never seen --
A Vital Kinsmanship import
Our Soul and theirs -- between --

- Emily Dickinson

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