Quotes about friendship
friendship easier made
Friends are like money, easier made than kept. Samuel Butler
friendship real-friends tree
Friendship is a sheltering tree. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
friendship burned foe
I burned my candle at both ends, And now have neither foes nor friends. Samuel Hoffenstein
friendship two sorrow
Two in distressmake sorrow less. Samuel Beckett
friendship worst-enemy my-best-friend
I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy. Whitney Houston
friendship running cheer-up
If you can't run, you crawl. If you can't crawl-- you find someone to carry you. Joss Whedon
friendship dog broken
There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog Konrad Lorenz
friendship support world
Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports. Kenneth Branagh
friendship tired care
I don’t trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they’re going to get tired of me and take off. Rainbow Rowell
friendship soul immortality
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. Ralph Waldo Emerson
friendship stars men
We begin with friendships, and all our youth is a reconnoitering and recruiting of the holy fraternity they shall combine for thesalvation of men. But so the remoter stars seem a nebula of united light, yet there is no group which a telescope will not resolve; and the dearest friends are separated by impassable gulfs. Ralph Waldo Emerson
friendship selfish men
The service a man renders his friend is trivial and selfish, compared with the service he knows his friend stood in readiness to yield him, alike before he had begun to serve his friend, and now also. Compared with that good-will I bear my friend, the benefit it is in my power to render him seems small. Ralph Waldo Emerson
friendship friends men
You shall not come nearer a man by getting into his house. Ralph Waldo Emerson
friendship spiritual stars
Then, though I prize my friends, I cannot afford to talk with them and study their visions, lest I lose my own. It would indeed give me a certain household joy to quit this lofty seeking, this spiritual astronomy, or search of stars, and come down to warm sympathies with you; but then I know well I shall mourn always the vanishing of my mighty gods. Ralph Waldo Emerson
friendship law games
Happy is the house that shelters a friend! It might well be built, like a festal bower or arch, to entertain him a single day. Happier, if he know the solemnity of that relation, and honor its law! He offers himself a candidate for that covenant comes up, like an Olympian, to the great games, where the first- born of the world are the competitors. Ralph Waldo Emerson
friendship dream heart
Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the toughfibre of the human heart. The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals. Ralph Waldo Emerson
friendship exercise men
Almost every man we meet requires some civility,--requires to be humored; he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion orphilanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils all conversation with him. But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me. Ralph Waldo Emerson
friendship pride accomplishment
I must feel pride in my friend's accomplishments as if they were mine,--and a property in his virtues. I feel as warmly when he ispraised, as the lover when he hears applause of his engaged maiden. Ralph Waldo Emerson
friendship trust essence
The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust. It must not surmise or provide for infirmity. It treats its object as a god, that it might deify both. Ralph Waldo Emerson
friendship eye moon
I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence. It must plant itself on the ground, before it vaults overthe moon. I wish it to be a little of a citizen, before it is quite a cherub. Ralph Waldo Emerson
friendship men names
Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul. Ralph Waldo Emerson
friendship friends joy
The only joy in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine. Ralph Waldo Emerson
friendship sex wall
My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of virtue with itself,I find them, or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of the individual character, relation, age, sex, circumstance, at which he usually connives, and now makes many one. Ralph Waldo Emerson
friendship league no-friends
Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be. Our impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances which no God attends. Ralph Waldo Emerson
friendship friends treats
Treat your friend as a spectacle. Ralph Waldo Emerson
friendship book names
We over-estimate the conscience of our friend. His goodness seems better than our goodness, his nature finer, his temptations less. Everything that is his,--his name, his form, his dress, books, and instruments,--fancy enhances. Our own thought sounds new and larger from his mouth. Ralph Waldo Emerson
friendship sleep yield
A new person is to me a great event, and hinders me from sleep. I have often had fine fancies about persons which have given me delicious hours; but the joy ends in the day; it yields no fruit. Ralph Waldo Emerson
friendship children future
A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger of a greater friend. Ralph Waldo Emerson
friendship hope heart
A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart. Ralph Waldo Emerson
friendship memories blessing
If your friend has displeased you, you shall not sit down to consider it, for he has already lost all memory of the passage, and has doubled his power to serve you, and, ere you can rise up again, will burden you with blessings. Ralph Waldo Emerson
friendship men two
I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding, which can subsist, after much exchange ofgood offices, between two virtuous men, each of whom is sure of himself, and sure of his friend. It is a happiness which postpones all other gratifications, and makes politics, and commerce, and churches, cheap. Ralph Waldo Emerson
friendship sex stars
For, when men shall meet as they ought, each a benefactor, a shower of stars, clothed with thoughts, with deeds, with accomplishments, it should be the festival of nature which all things announce. Of such friendship, love in the sexes is the first symbol, as all other things are symbols of love. Those relations to the best men, which, at one time, we reckoned the romances of youth, become, in the progress of character, the most solid enjoyment. Ralph Waldo Emerson
friendship two world
There can never be deep peace between two spirits, never mutual respect, until, in their dialogue, each stands for the whole world. Ralph Waldo Emerson