friendship

friendship

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
"Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh?" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand. "I just wanted to be sure of you." Winnie-the-Pooh
The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend. Someone Like You
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you. Winnie-the-Pooh
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
When you have a good friend that really cares for you and tries to stick in there with you, you treat them like nothing. Learn to be a good friend because one day you're gonna look up and say I lost a good friend. Learn how to be respectful to your friends, don't just start arguments with them and don't tell them the reason, always remember your friends will be there quicker than your family. Learn to remember you got great friends, don't forget that and they will always care for you no matter what. Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life.
There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met. Favorite Songs from Jim Henson's Muppets
Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.
'We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. 'Even longer,' Pooh answered. Winnie-the-Pooh
I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.
You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together. The Notebook
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival. The Four Loves
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
"People have forgotten this truth," the fox said. "But you mustn't forget it. You become responsible forever for what you've tamed. You're responsible for your rose." The Little Prince
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
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. The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next. Fear Nothing
If you have good friends, no matter how much life is sucking, they can make you laugh.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.
Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment. Norwegian Wood
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face. Letter to My Daughter
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back
So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend. Lay Morals
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends. De Senectute, De Amicitia
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.
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
One loyal friend is worth 10 thousand relatives
Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know. Essays: First Series
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.
Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. How to Win Friends and Influence People
Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.
Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends. Illusions
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends. A Guide To Happiness
A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him. Aesop's Fables
We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion
What was more, they had taken the first step towrd genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities. 2010: Odyssey Two
It takes much bravery to stand up to our enemies but we need as much bravery to stand up to our friends. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. Emerson in His Journals
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
A good friend will always stab you in the front.
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart
If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.
If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends. Forever Odd
If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends.
Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives. The Zahir
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.