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We are wont to see friendship solely as a phenomenon of intimacy in which the friends open their hearts to each other unmolested by the world and its demands...Thus it is hard for us to understand the political relevance of friendship...But for the Greeks the essence of friendship consisted in discourse...The converse (in contrast to the intimate talk in which individuals speak about themselves), permeated though it may be by pleasure in the friendโs presence, is concerned with the common world.
Hannah ArendtFriendship above all ties does bind the heart; And faith in friendship is the noblest part.
Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of OrreryTo have a friendship with God, all I really have to do is have a friendship with my Self.
Neale Donald WalschA gang is the same as a wolf pack; gang members do not use their energies in friendship with one another, for they do not know what friendship is. If they are united, it is by the common bond of a desire to attack their world.
Haniel LongFriendship takes time and energy if it's going to work. You can luck into something great, but it doesn't last if you don't give it proper appreciation. Friendship can be so comfortable, but nurture it-don't take it for granted.
Betty WhiteIn loneliness, in sickness, in confusion-the mere knowledge of friendship makes it possible to endure, even if the friend is powerless to help. It is enough that they exist. Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply. It is from these things that it flowers.
Pam BrownThe place where two friends first met is sacred to them all through their friendship, all the more sacred as their friendship deepens and grows old.
Phillips BrooksDrink in the beauty of friendship. In this world of constant change, we need the comfort of friendship more than ever before.
Susan JeffersBetween men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Oscar WildeIt is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.
Marcus Tullius CiceroFriendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.
Thomas F. WilsonOn average, once a month for the last 10 years since her [Harper Lee] stroke, we have sat and talked and told stories and exchanged insults... Which she loves. I think one secret to our friendship was I did not treat her like a marble woman, and my wife - I joked with her, and I joked with her, and that was the sort of contours of our friendship.
Wayne FlyntThe 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.
Anna Garlin SpencerDoesn't this quote just call up feelings of comfort and home? Comparing friendship to the nest a bird lives in and builds with loving determination reminds me that having a solid relationship takes work and dedication. And yet, when you succeed in crafting a friendship, you can rest in the comfort it provides.
George EliotFriendship is not something you can learn in college or some learning institution, no one knows how to become friends you just become but if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship you haven't learned anything
Muhammad AliIf you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes.
Victoria JusticeFriendship with the upright, with the truthful and with the well informed is beneficial. Friendship with those who flatter, with those who are meek and who compromise with principles, and with those who talk cleverly is harmful.
ConfuciusFriendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.
Charlotte BrontePerfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
AristotleA friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.
John D. RockefellerI've learned that friendship does not equate business, business does not equate friendship.
Jill ScottWe, however, have a different goal: the Son of God, the true man. He is the measure of true humanism. An "adult" faith is not a faith that follows the trends of fashion and the latest novelty; a mature, adult faith is deeply rooted in friendship with Christ. It is this friendship that opens us up to all that is good and gives us a criterion by which to distinguish the true from the false, and deceit from truth.
Pope Benedict XVIFriendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be.
Mahatma GandhiWe live in an extraordinary time. We are caught up in a pace of social and technological change that makes our work, our business and education, sources of anxiety and unfulfillment. Thinking about our thinking and observing our observations can bring us a new world in which work becomes a place for innovation, and in which peace, wisdom, friendship, companionship and community can exist. Let us design this world together.
Fernando FloresIt is not a demonstration of kindness or friendship to the people we care about to join them in indulging in wrongheaded, negative feelings. We do a better service to ourselves and others by remaining detached and avoiding melodramatic reactions.
EpictetusGod has written in the law of nature that when two people are joined in love or friendship, one must always give his heart more perfectly than the other.
George SandStar Wars has always struck a chord with people. There are issues of loyalty, of friendship, of good and evil... The theme came from stories and ideas that have been around for thousands of years.
George LucasFriendship means understanding, not agreement. It means forgiveness, not forgetting. It means the memories last, even if contact is lost.
Unknowne foundation to a good friendship is trust but the foundation to good comedy is by betraying your friends.
Daniel ToshMy friendship with the Steinway piano is one of the most important and beautiful things in my life.
Krystian ZimermanFriendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
Jean de La FontaineBetween friends there is no need for justice, but people who are just still need the quality of friendship; and indeed friendliness is considered to be justice in the fullest sense.
AristotleTrue happiness comes only by making others happyโthe practical application of the Savior's doctrine of losing one's life to gain it. In short, the Christmas spirit is the Christ spirit, that makes our hearts glow in brotherly love and friendship and prompts us to kind deeds of service.
David O. McKayFriendship was another illusion like love, though it did not reach the same mad heights. People pretended that they were friends, when the fact was they were brought together by force of circumstances.
R.K. NarayanTo wish to escape from solitude is cowardice. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).
Simone WeilIf your reaction to your partner's fear-or any other form of distress- is disdain or irritation, you do not want oneness or even friendship with your partner at that moment.
Hugh PratherThe feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
Samuel JohnsonFriendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.
Kenneth BranaghWhen I recollect the treasure of friendship that has been bestowed upon me I withdraw all charges against life. If much has been denied me, much, very much has been given. So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart I shall say that life is good.
Helen KellerGood company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
Edmund Burke