Friendship Quotes - Page 92

I believe in God, because he is the only thing that kept me going. He's my best friend.

If I stopped writing and being at my piano, I wouldn't know how to live. It's your best friend.

Give others freedom to be themselves. Appreciate the differences between their ways an yours.

She's been there for me in a lot of ways, and she really is just the most dependable and loyal and funny as all get out. I mean, she just cracks me up. Constantly.

My friendship with Martin [Schulz], by contrast, is completely different in that it goes far beyond politics.

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends as to give them no cause to miss him less.

Friendship * * * is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity.

I thought you might have some advice to give on how to be insensitive.

A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.

Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed.

If friendship is to transpire between two people, it is important that both be in a state of availability. I have often been in the company of those who complain that they have no friends. Inevitably, I have observed that this condition was due to their own lack of availability; they were too encumbered to be able to welcome another. Such unavailability may be exterior in nature; that is, people may lack the time or the emotional energy necessary for friendship.

These are called the pious frauds of friendship.

Is it the lumberman, then, who is the friend and lover of the pine, stands nearest to it, and understands its nature best? Is it the tanner who has barked it, or he who has boxed it for turpentine, whom posterity will fable to have been changed into a pine at last? No! no! it is the poet: he it is who makes the truest use of the pine-who does not fondle it with an axe, nor tickle it with a saw, nor stroke it with a plane. . . .

I had but three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship; three for society. When visitors came in larger and unexpected numbers there was but the third chair for them all, but they generally economized the room by standing up.

I often accuse my finest acquaintances of an immense frivolity; for, while there are manners and compliments we do not meet, we donot teach one another the lessons of honesty and sincerity that the brutes do, or of steadiness and solidity that the rocks do. The fault is commonly mutual; however, for we do not habitually demand any more of each other.

For a companion, I require one who will make an equal demand on me with my own genius. Such a one will always be rightly tolerant.It is suicide, and corrupts good manners, to welcome any less than this. I value and trust those who love and praise my aspiration rather than my performance. If you would not stop to look at me, but look whither I am looking, and farther, then my education could not dispense with your company.

Friends, companions, lovers, are those who treat us in terms of our unlimited worth to ourselves. They are closest to us who best understand what life means to us, who feel for us as we feel for ourselves, who are bound to us in triumph and disaster, who break the spell of our loneliness.

The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them.

My mind is full of secrets I'm too afraid to tell. My body's full of longing for you to know me well.

Time for Tolerance,Equality, and Acceptance, It's allways TEA time with my Friends.

There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.

The friendship I have conceived will not be impaired by absence; but it may be no unpleasing circumstance to brighten the chain by a renewal of the covenant.

It's family, and it's faith, and it's friends, and it's not the glamour of the Presidency, or the wonder of going to receive the Nobel Prize. All those are important, of course. But maybe it's just that I'm 71 years old now. It's family, and it's faith, and it's friends. I would tell them that. Don't forget that. In your brilliance, don't turn your back on your friends. Don't think you're entitled to something, you're smarter than the next guy.

It is hard to believe long together that anything is "worth while," unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.

Flea brain, got a hole in her head. If she wasn't good looking, she'd be better off dead.