F Quotes
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“Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.”
“Friendship is something that gets harder to understand, every damn year of my life.Friendship is like a kind of algebra test that nobody passes. In my worst moods, I think the best you can say is that a friend is anyone you don't despise.”
Source: Shantaram: A Novel
“Friendship is something that is cultivated.”
“Friendship is something to be built up carefully, by people with leisure, it is an art, nature does not enter into it.”
Source: The Pursuit of Love
“Friendship is spiritual...highly spiritual.”
Source: Who Is Your Friend?: The School Of Friendship
“Friendship is staying close enough to put a hand on their shoulder while giving them enough room to feel the weight.”
Source: On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
“Friendship is strengthened by...that which ever so lightly elevates us from the trough of self-concern and self-devotion.”
“Friendship is stronger than kindred.”
“Friendship is such a powerful healer and source of support.”
“Friendship is such an elastic word. There never was an age when it stood for so many things in private, and was yet so absolutely non-existent in fact.”
Source: Othmar. Friendship. And other stories
“Friendship is system for creating lasting changes in people.”
“Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.”
“Friendship is that virtue by which spirits are bound by ties of love and sweetness and out of many are made one.”
Source: Spiritual friendship
“Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds.”
Source: The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Clerus domini. Office ministerial. Discourse of friendship. Rules and advices to the clergy. Heber's Life of Bp. Taylor, and indexes to the ten volumes
“Friendship is the art of turning shared moments into timeless treasures.”
“Friendship is the best kind of ship.”
Source: Streamline
“Friendship is the bestiest thing that comes to life . Friends will always be there for you don't worry about the fakes worry about the people who had your back from the start and never treated you wrong always remember they are your real friends don't never take them as granted because one day your going to lose a good friend by the way your action's are when you see a good friend stick to that person .”
“Friendship is the bread of the heart.”
Source: OUR VILLAGE
“Friendship is the foundational block for building all relationships.”
Source: Who Is Your Friend?: The School Of Friendship
“Friendship is the gift of the gods, and the most precious boon to man.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches
“Friendship is the grand fundamental principle of Mormonism”
“Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life.”
“Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. If I had to give a piece of advice to a young man about a place to live, I think I should say, 'sacrifice almost everything to live where you can be near your friends.'”
“Friendship is the hands of love.”
Source: Who Is Your Friend?: The School Of Friendship
“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.”
“Friendship is the heaven of life.”
“Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.”
“Friendship is the holiest of gifts;
God can bestow nothing more sacred upon us!
It enhances every joy, mitigates every pain.
Everyone can have a friend,
Who himself knows how to be a friend.”
“Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; reality always remains far apart from the ideal.”
“Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.”
“Friendship is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.”
“Friendship is the love that is ignored; people don't theorise about friendship, write poetry about it. It just goes quietly along, sustaining. Passion spends itself--oh my goodness, does passion spend itself--but friendship is always there. Like a good marriage, it survives attack.”
Source: Perfect Happiness
“Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.”
Source: Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression
“Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.”
“Friendship is the most amazing catalyst for fusing a husband and wife together as one flesh, one soul and one spirit.”
Source: Dating and Friendship: A New Model For A Lasting Love Relationship
“Friendship is the most constant, the most enduring, the most basic part of love.”
“Friendship is the most important thing in my life. It's rare to have friends like I've got. If I had as great a taste in husbands as I have in friends, what an even better life I would have had!”
Source: Reflections of a Successful Wallflower: Lessons in Business; Lessons in Life
“Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more glads the heart of man.”
Source: Plutarch's Complete Works
“Friendship is the mother of friends.”
“Friendship is the next pleasure we may hope for: and where we find it not at home, or have no home to find it in, we may seek it abroad. It is an union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue.”
Source: The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...
“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”
Source: Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson
“Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace.”
“Friendship is the only point in human affairs concerning the benefit of which all, with one voice, agree.”
Source: Cicero's Three Books Of Offices, Or Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate
“Friendship is the only relationship in the whole universe that has the capacity to bind two different spirits together.”
Source: Who Is Your Friend?: The School Of Friendship
“Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.”
Source: Thoughts of Cicero: On the Following Subjects, Viz. I. Religion. II. Man. III. Conscience. IV. The Passions. V. Wisdom. VI. Probity. VII. Eloquence. VIII. Friendship. IX. Old Age. X. Death. XI. Scipio's Dream. XII. Miscellaneous Thoughts
“Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.”
Source: The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson: Author of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison
“Friendship is the positive and unalterable choice of a person whom we have singled out for qualitites that we admire.”
“Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.”
“Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.”
“Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.”
Source: Aquinas Selected Political Writings