Friendship is the art and craft of making and keeping friends, of nurturing a mutual relationship with another human being. Friends are comrades in the journey of life, providing support, understanding, and fellowship. Below you’ll read what some have thought about the pleasures and challenges of being a friend.
You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like “What about lunch?”
If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together… there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart…I’ll always be with you.
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.
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.
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
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.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
All intimacy is rare — that’s what makes it precious. And it involves the revelation of one’s self and the loving gaze upon another’s true self (no makeup, no fancy car, no defensive charm, no seduction) — that’s what makes it so damn hard. Intimacy requires honesty and kindness in almost equal measure (a little more kindness, I think), trust and trustworthiness, forgiveness and the capacity to be forgiven . . . It’s more than worth it — just don’t let them tell you it’s bilss.
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.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
I’ve always said that in politics, your enemies can’t hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life long experience of the greatest value to themselves and to all their circle of acquaintance and of activity; but for this type of friendship both a rare man and a rare woman are needed. Perhaps it should be added that either the man or the woman thus deeply bound in lifelong friendship who seeks marriage must find a still rarer man or woman to wed, to make such a three cornered comradeship a permanent success.
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
If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be too cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.
We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.
Please remember, especially in these times of group-think and the right-on chorus, that no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended.
The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
True friendship consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and value.
A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.
You can make it, but it’s easier if you don’t have to do it alone.
