Quotes on Friendship

Friendship -- Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are -- chaff and grain together -- certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away...
-- Dinah Mulock

A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness is a byproduct of an effort to make someone else happy.
-- Gretta Brooker Palmer

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
-- Mark Twain

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
-- Goethe

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 they discover that someone else believes in them and is willing to trust them with their friendship.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
-- Joseph Addison

Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.
-- Bible: Ecclesiastes

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
-- Henri-Frederic Amiel

A friend is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
-- Aristotle

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
-- Dag Hammarskjold

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
-- Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
-- Aristotle

The friendship that can cease has never been real.
-- Saint Jerome

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
-- Elizabeth Bowen

Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
-- Honoré de Balzac

Solitude: A good place to visit, but a poor place to stay.
-- Josh Billings

I waited and waited, and when no message came, I knew it must have been from you.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant (UC Berkeley 'street' philosopher)

Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards.
-- R. A. Dickson