Quotes

I have walked away from friendships when I've realized that someone smiles to someone's face and talks about them the minute they walk out of a room. I have no room in my life for that kind of negative energy anymore.

Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey.

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

I am afraid that, like Timon of Athens, I just cannot let go of my friendships.

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

The knot of intimacy at the center of 'Ten Thousand Saints' is the friendship between Teddy McNicholas and Jude Keffy-Horn.

Get a hobby. Maintain your friendships. Hang out with other people.

Being a scientist is a special privilege: for it brings the opportunity to be creative, the passionate quest for answers to nature's most precious secrets, and the warm friendships of many valued colleagues.

They took their meals together; and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test, that they never quarrelled or disputed the possession of a favourite fruit with each other.

To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but you have the gift of friendship to overwhelm the loneliness that grips the lives of so many.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.

I don't need to go onto Facebook and pretend to have friends I've never even met. To my mind, that kind of destroys the meaning of the word 'friend.' I take exception to that. Because I value and respect friendship.

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

People feel better when their spouses have good friendships, over and above the effects of their own friendships.

Marriage is generally based on more equality and deeper friendship than in the past, but even so, it is hard for it to compensate for the way that work has devoured time once spent cultivating friendships.

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do.