Friendship
Quotes - What is a Friend?
“What
is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
―
Aristotle
“I
think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay
connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't
be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends
are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.”
―
Jon Katz
“Nobody
likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's
all. It just leads to disappointment. ”
―
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“Friendship
is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in
school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really
haven't learned anything.”
―
Muhammad Ali
“Each
friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
―
Anais Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
“He
must have known I'd want to leave you."
"No,
he must have known you would always want to come back.”
―
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“How
many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices
in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends
how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give
'em.”
―
Shel Silverstein
“It
is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but
rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?”
― A.
A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“No
person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
―
Alice Walker
“Well,
it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are
frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look
at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a
switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is...
suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.”
―
Gillian Anderson
“There
is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in
literature.”
―
P.G. Wodehouse
“Only
a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.”
―
Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy
“Why
is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known
you so many years?"
"Because
I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.”
―
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
“Do
I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
―
Abraham Lincoln
“The
man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his
friends.”
―
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Some
birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright,
their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage
to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it
was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place
where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.”
―
Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
“If
you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good
friend, you're more than lucky.”
―
S.E. Hinton
“There
are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love
the same books.”
―
Irving Stone, Clarence Darrow for the Defense
“The
beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the
resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not
love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do
not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them”
―
Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island
“Words
are easy, like the wind; faithful friends are hard to find.”
―
William Shakespeare, The Passionate Pilgrim
