Friends Quotes - Page 14

It is lack of love for ourselves that inhibits our compassion toward others. If we make friends with ourselves, then there is no obstacle to opening our hearts and minds to others.

Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you.

A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.

A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them: lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America.

Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best.

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

Friends are relatives you make for yourself.

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Be civil to all; serviceable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.

Everything I have achieved in football is due to playing football in the streets with my friends

We expect more from technology and less from each other. We create technology to provide the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.

Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.

To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

You do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.

I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my friends. So I would spend time walking through the woods, looking for the most beautiful tropical thing that can survive the winter in the woods in New Hampshire.

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared with Jesus Christ.

You’re my best friend, Shmuel,’ he said. ‘My best friend for life.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

It is when we are most lost that we sometimes find our truest friends.