Friendship Quotes - Page 27

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Stay with friends who support you in these. Talk with them about sacred texts, and how you are doing, and how they are doing, and keep your practices together.

My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way.

Good friends are those who care without hesitation, who remember without limitation and who love even without communication

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

Friendship, if somebody holds out his hand toward you, you've got to reach and take it... There are too many people alone, and if you're lucky enough for somebody to want you as a friend, it's an obligation.

You make each day a special day. You know how, by just your being you.

Friends are "annuals" that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a "perennial" that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There's a place in the garden for both of them.

But remember, when it comes to friends, it's not how much time you spend with them, just how you spend it!

My friends, there are no friends.

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.

You learn in this business.. If you want a friend, get a dog.

universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Best friends listen to what you don't say.

Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

It's not too late to develop new friendships or reconnect with people.

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.

A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.