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I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each shall stand guard over the solitude of the other. For, if it lies in the nature of indifference and of the crowd to recognize no solitude, then love and friendship are there for the purpose of continually providing the opportunity for solitude. And only those are the true sharings which rhythmically interrupt periods of deep isolation.
Sep 10, 2025
Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and friendship flourish.
Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.
Finally ... You have accomplished your mission in going there tonight - you were 'seen,' and you furnished your host and hostess with the sincerest proof of your great love and friendship for them - you endured their cocktail party.
As everyone applauds and sips champagne, I smile back at Rachel, thinking she got it just right. Love and friendship. They are what makes us who we are and what can change us, if we let them.
Life is not bad, and it doesn't look more real if it's ugly or it's gritty. Think of your own life. Most of what's in your own life, hopefully, is exactly that. Friendship and love and passion for movies and cartoons and comic books, whatever it is that you love. Most of the way we live our lives involves looking for pleasure and beauty and happiness and affection. Real artists don't use reflexive clichés about things. It's about honoring the reality of people's lives, which defies conventions and clichés and expectations. People are interesting, period.
When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.
Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer.
Friendship and love are impossible without a mutual vulnerability.
We live now in a global village and we are in one single family. It's our responsibility to bring friendship and love from all different places around the world and to live together in peace.
It amazes me that you feel that each time you write a story you give away one of your dreams and you feel the poorer for it. But then you have not thought that this dream is planted in others, others begin to live it too, it is shared, it is the beginning of friendship and love. How is this world made which you enjoy, the friends around me that you love? They came because I first gave away my stories.
Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
The essence of true friendship, in my view, is to make allowances for one another's little lapses.
Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
Friendship is Love without his wings!
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 curing, not healing...that is a friend who cares.
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.
Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
You Too? I thought I was the only one.
Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
I get by with a little help from my friends.
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple.
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.