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

ELIE WIESEL
WRITER, HUMANITARIAN
FRIENDSHIP

“To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.”

PAUL AUBUCHON
FRIENDSHIP

Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love.”

JANE AUSTEN
NOVELIST
FRIENDSHIP

“If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than our own. ”

CHARLOTTE BRONTË
NOVELIST
FRIENDSHIP

“True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.”

CHARLES CALEB COLTON
CLERGYMAN, AUTHOR
FRIENDSHIP

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.”

GEORGE ELIOT [MARY ANN EVANS]
NOVELIST, EDITOR
FRIENDSHIP

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility; never an opportunity.”

KHALIL GIBRAN
ARTIST, POET, WRITER
FRIENDSHIP

“There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.”

DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON
POET, ESSAYIST, LEXICOGRAPHER
FRIENDSHIP

“If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.”

DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON
POET, ESSAYIST, LEXICOGRAPHER
FRIENDSHIP

“Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.”

DEAN KOONTZ
AUTHOR
COMPASSION

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art...It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.”

C.S. LEWIS
WRITER, THEOLOGIAN, SCHOLAR
FRIENDSHIP

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You, too? I thought I was the only one.”

C.S. LEWIS
WRITER, THEOLOGIAN, SCHOLAR
FRIENDSHIP

“I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.”

KATHERINE MANSFIELD
NOVELIST
FRIENDSHIP

“We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.”

GOLDA MEIR
PRIME MINISTER OF ISRAEL
FRIENDSHIP

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
SCHOLAR, WRITER, PHILOSOPHER
FRIENDSHIP

“Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.”

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
SCHOLAR, WRITER, PHILOSOPHER
FRIENDSHIP

Friendship among nations, as among individuals, calls for constructive efforts to muster the forces of humanity in order that an atmosphere of close understanding and cooperation may be cultivated.”

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
32ND U.S. PRESIDENT
FRIENDSHIP

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
U.S. FIRST LADY, DIPLOMAT, HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST
FRIENDSHIP

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another: People are friends in spots.”

GEORGE SANTAYANA
PHILOSOPHER, POET, ESSAYIST, NOVELIST
FRIENDSHIP

“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.”

LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA
STOIC PHILOSOPHER, WRITER, TUTOR
FRIENDSHIP

“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”

HENRY DAVID THOREAU
NATURALIST, AUTHOR, PHILOSOPHER
FRIENDSHIP

“The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?”

HENRY DAVID THOREAU
NATURALIST, AUTHOR, PHILOSOPHER
FRIENDSHIP

Friendship is love with understanding.”

PROVERB
FRIENDSHIP

“Most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty”

J.K. ROWLING
NOVELIST
LOYALTY

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.' I know I am very fortunate in that respect”

C.S. LEWIS
WRITER, THEOLOGIAN, SCHOLAR
FRIENDSHIP

“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over. ”

DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON
POET, ESSAYIST, LEXICOGRAPHER
FRIENDSHIP

“The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love, do not require coupons.”

GEORGE T. HEWITT
HISTORIAN
PURPOSE

“Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it.”

BILL BRADLEY
AMERICAN HALL OF FAME BASKETBALL PLAYER, RHODES SCHOLAR
LOYALTY

“The happiest business in all the world is that of making friends, And no investment on the street pays larger dividends, For life is more than stocks and bonds, and love than rate percent, And he who gives in friendship's name shall reap what he has.”

ANONYMOUS
REACHING OUT

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”

C.S. LEWIS
WRITER, THEOLOGIAN, SCHOLAR
FRIENDSHIP

“Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. ”

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR.
ASSOCIATE JUSTICE, U.S. SUPREME COURT
COURTESY
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