Quotes about Friendship

There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don't expect you to save the world I do think it's not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary and remove from your life those who offer you depression, despair and disrespect.

Treasure the friendship you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.

Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

Everyone wants 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.

When a friend told Francis Bacon that he would prefer not to have an eternal soul than to live in eternal torment, the painter replied with a grim realism that people are "so attracted to their egos that they'd probably rather have the torment than simple annihilation.

An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.

When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us.

When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted desires, a broken friendship, or a new friendship— when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us.