~ Friends and Friendship Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]We have no more right to put our discordant states of mind into the lives of those around us and rob them of their sunshine and brightness than we have to enter their houses and steal their silverware.

Julia Seton

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end ... I have lost every other friend on earth I shall at least have one friend left and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Abraham Lincoln

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

Pam Brown

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]My God this is a hell of a job. I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends my goddamn friends. They're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights.

Warren G. Harding

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The friend of my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Ulysses S. Grant

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]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.

Aristotle

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]That friendship may be at once fond and lasting there must not only be equal virtue on each part but virtue of the same kind; not only the same end must be proposed but the same means must be approved by both.

Samuel Johnson

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]You will find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make earnest effort to confer that pleasure on others?...Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.

Lydia Maria Child

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]When we hurt each other we should write it down in the sand so the winds of forgiveness can make it go away for good. When we help each other we should chisel it in stone lest we never forget the love of a friend.

Christian H. Godefroy

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]True happiness is of a retired nature and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises in the first place from the enjoyment of one's self; and in the next from the friendship and conversations of a few select companions.

Joseph Addison

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement who can tolerate not knowing... not healing not curing... that is a friend who cares.

Henri J. M. Nouwen

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Families will not be broken. Curse and expel them send their children wandering drown them in floods and fires and old women will make songs of all these sorrows and sit in the porches and sing them on mild evenings.

Marilynne Robinson

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty esteem cordiality sympathy affection readiness to aid to help to stick to fight for if need be. ... Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.

B. C. Forbes

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]To cement a new friendship especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person and cut across the accidents of place and time.

George Santayana

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things but above all the power of getting out of one's self and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.

Thomas Hughes