When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.
Let friend trust friends, and love demand love's like.
The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
When two people respect each other, the ability to be vulnerable and to reveal hurt feelings can create a powerful emotional connection that is the source of real intimacy and friendship.
To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life.
The capacity for friendship usually goes with highly developed civilizations. The ability to cultivate people differs by culture and class; but on the whole, educated people have more ways to make friends. . . . In England, for instance, you find everyone in your class has read the same books. Here, people grope for something in common-like a newly engaged girl who came to me and said, "It's absolutely wonderful! His uncle and my cousin were on the same football team.
A long-term marriage has to move beyond chemistry to compatibility, to friendship, to companionship. It is certainly not that passion disappears, but that it is conjoined with other ways of love.
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
I am not looking for a friend; if I want a friend I'd buy a dog.
There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard.
The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Like two rivers flow to the sea, someday we'll reunite for all eternity.
In Friendship we only see those faults which may be prejudicial to our friends. In love we see no faults but those by which we suffer ourselves.
Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.
You can't build anything with a flimsy foundation. Friendship is the foundation.
Dog lovers are a good breed themselves.
The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence. Friendship perishes in proportion as this air diminishes.