Friendship Quotes - Page 34

Wherever it is you may be, it is your friends who make your world.

Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.

There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment.

God gives us our relatives – thank God we can choose our friends.

The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They had buried him under our elm tree, they said-yet this wasn't totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.

But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognized by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realized, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

Friends are like spaghetti, they should stick together. The only way to have a friend is to be one.

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

We love those who can lead us to a place we will never reach without them.

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

I read in the proof sheets of Hardy on Ramanujan: "As someone said, each of the positive integers was one of his personal friends." My reaction was, "I wonder who said that; I wish I had." In the next proof-sheets I read (what now stands), "It was Littlewood who said..."

Let's examine the dog mind: Every time you come home, he thinks it's amazing. He can't believe that you've accomplished this again. You walk in the door. The joy of it almost kills him. "He's back again! It's that guy! It's that guy!"

You know when I feel inwardly beautiful? When I am with my girlfriends and we are having a 'goddess circle'.

Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos.

It is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.

Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.

Is your head up your ass so far that you can't pull it out?