429 private quotes tagged friendship

“Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.” — Samuel Johnson

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“Came but for friendship, and took away love.” — Thomas Moore

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

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“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.” — Alice Walker

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“Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't.” — Judy Holliday

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“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 Nouwen

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“We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.” — Joseph Roux

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“A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!” — Doug Larson

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“A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.” — John D. Rockefeller

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“Friendship and money: oil and water.” — Mario Puzo

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“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” — Marcel Proust

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“She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.” — Toni Morrison

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“There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.” — Chanakya

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“I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.” — Robert Brault

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“The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.” — Giotto di Bondone

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“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

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“A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.” — Walter Winchell

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“A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.” — Leo Buscaglia

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“All lasting business is built on friendship.” — Alfred A. Montapert

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“The best time to make friends is before you need them.” — Ethel Barrymore

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“Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.” — Amos Bronson Alcott

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“Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.” — Margaret Lee Runbeck

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“There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.” — Paramahansa Yogananda

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“A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.” — Robert Hall

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“In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.” — Albert Schweitzer

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