Friendship Quotes

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends. - William Butler Yeats

Friendship with one's self is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Sometimes I wonder if life is really worth it, then I look at your smile and I know it is.

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If our friendship depends on things like space and time, then when we finally overcome space and time, we've destroyed our own brotherhood! But overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now. And in the middle of Here and Now, don't you think that we might see each other once or twice?" - Richard Bach, from "Jonathan Livingston Seagull"

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all. - Eleanor Roosevelt

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked what I thought, and attended to my answer. - Thoreau

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

A part of us remains where ever we have been.

Everyone hears what you say; friends listen to what you say, best friends listen to what you don't say.

If all my friends were to jump off a bridge I wouldn't jump with them - I would be at the bottom to catch them.

Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born. - Anias Nin

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. - Jim Morisson

Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.' - Clive Staples Lewis

Hold a true friend with both your hands. - Nietzsche

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough. - Walt Whitman

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair. - Samuel Johnson

"Don't be dismayed at goodbyes, a farewell is necessary before you can meet again; and meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends." - Richard Bach

True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,

And he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere. - Emerson

Even the death of friends will inspire us as much as their lives... Their memories will be encrusted over with sublime and pleasing thoughts, as monuments of other men are overgrown with moss; for our friends have no place in the graveyard. - Thoreau

Thank you for teaching my heart to dance among the stars.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. - Emily Dickinson

The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one other person. - Vi Putnam

Friends... are God's apology for relatives. - Hugh Kingsmill

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