#friendship

"The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character."

"If you wish to befriend someone, look for a person who loves first God then themselves. If they love God, they will be able to love their neighbor, too."

"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends."

"I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful disaster of human life as ever redeemable and redeemed by compassion, friendship and love."

"When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed."

"To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness."

"Nothing of real worth can ever be bought. Love, friendship, honour, valour, respect. All these things have to be earned."

"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."

"I want to grow a flower for every time someone tells me “F*** you.” Then I’ll go back to that person and pin the flower on their lapel in a gesture of friendship. And while they are looking down on it in astonishment, I’ll bunch up my knuckles and punch them in the face."

"Faith is salted and peppered through everything at Christmas. And I love at least one night by the Christmas tree to sing and feel the quiet holiness of that time that's set apart to celebrate love, friendship, and God's gift of the Christ child."

"Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day."

"Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty."

"Oh for God's sake,' Heather said, 'I wish you two would just go out, fail miserably as a couple, and get it over with."

"The old man slowly raised himself from the piano stool, fixed those cheerful blue eyes piercingly and at the same time with unimaginable friendliness upon him, and said: "Making music together is the best way for two people to become friends. There is none easier. That is a fine thing. I hope you and I shall remain friends. Perhaps you too will learn how to make fugues, Joseph."

"We’re a couple of shooting stars, Biggs, and we’ll never be stopped."

"Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends."

"We were as Hansel and Gretel and we ventured out into the black forest of the world."

"There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature."

"إن السعادة هي أن أشرب كوب شاي.. مع صديق.. في لحظة رضا."

"I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival."