Life And Friendship Quotes

#1. Make all good men your well-wishers, and then, in the years' steady sifting, Some of them turn into friends. Friends are the sunshine of life.

John Hay

#2. Friends disappear
or they are powerless.
This is what misfortune means
an acid test of friendship.
I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

Anne Carson

#3. I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship. I am still very much a part of my friends' lives and they are very much a part of my life. A First Lady who does not have this source of strength and comfort can lose perspective and become isolated.

Nancy Reagan

#4. There is no medicine that can ignite the bond of love. Friendship is compulsory, love comes around when friendship ripes, and sex is a matter of choice.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#5. But sometimes there's a difference between being needed and being taken advantage of.

Lindsey Kelk

#6. Youth is beautiful; its friendship is precious; the intercourse with it is a purifying release from the worn and stained harness of older life.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

#7. Of all the gifts that wise Providence grants us to make life full and happy, friendship is the most beautiful.

Epicurus

#8. Someday we're going to look back on every shared smile and smile some more. It's moments like this that make life worth enduring.

Nadege Richards

#9. I didn't know who to
believe
but
one thing I do
know: when a man is
living
many claim relationships
that are hardly
so
and after he dies, well,
then it's everybody's
party.

Charles Bukowski

#10. A girl would be lucky to have you, but not like this, Carmine. Not the way you treat people now. You're wasting your time, and it's not worth it. You need to find something that is. So, maybe your life isn't boring, but it has to be unfulfilling.

J.M. Darhower

#11. I don't want to be
one of those easily forgotten people, so important at the time, so special, so
influential, and so treasured, yet years later just a vague face and a distant
memory.

Cecelia Ahern

#12. Animals are not property or "things" but rather living organisms, subjects of a life, who are worthy of our compassion, respect, friendship, and support.

Marc Bekoff

#13. It is love and friendship, the sanctity and celebration of our relationships, that not only support a good life, but create one. Through friendships, we spark and inspire one another's ambitions.

Wallace Stegner

#14. In civilized society [a person] stands at all times in need of the cooperation and assistance of great multitudes," Smith wrote, "while his whole life is scarce sufficient to gain the friendship of a few persons.

Arthur Herman

#15. When there's a history between people, it makes for some serious complications - even in something seemingly as simple as friendship. There is no real starting over. There's only trying to minimize the importance of things in the past. And some events are just too life altering to trivialize.

Megan Thomason

#16. Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.

Emily Giffin

#17. If you love somebody, tell them. If there is conflict, let it go and fight instead for peace. Break the numb false silence and break the distance too. Laugh and cry and apologize and start again. This life is short and fragile but friendship is among the greatest miracles.

Jamie Tworkowski

#18. We often misunderstood between having good number of friends and having number of good friends.

Vijay Dhameliya

#19. Ranking where people stand in your life and who they are to you helps you determine who you value the most and therefore where best to spend your time.

Connor Franta

#20. I want to know what it is to build the foundation of the friendship for real, to have my best friend and not because we're just intimate, but because we're mentally intimate. So I'm waiting for that person to come into my life.

LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

#21. Stop worrying about being that perfect person because no one is perfect. Put your focus on being that right person that will love, understand, and care for that other.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#22. Keep in mind that the reason you know you can be good to others is only because you've taken strides to be better for and to yourself.

Alexandra Elle

#23. The more one delves into Rumi's life and his mystical poetry it becomes clear that for him, the issue of faith and reason is incomplete unless one includes the central theme of love.

Rumi

#24. Win hatred with love, enemies with friendship, and cruelty with kindness.

Debasish Mridha

#25. ...only the dreamers of a dream are capable of translating their dreams into worthy practical endeavors that are devoid of haunting errors. After all, they are the ones who carefully observed the link between their dreams and reality; they are the ones who worked consciously to blend them into one.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#26. I get very nostalgic for times and places and experiences, but I have a wonderful group of core friends and family who I love and adore, so I don't mourn the loss of any particular friendship. I think they're all part of a path, and the ones that really mean something are still important in my life.

Katie Aselton

#27. A word, a smile, and the stranger at your elbow may become an interesting friend. All through life we deny ourselves stimulating fellowship because we are too proud or too afraid to unbend.

Donald C. Peattie

#28. I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that respect.

Salman Rushdie

#29. In a basic sense, 'A Little Life' is a homage to how my friends and I live our lives. I wanted to push past the definitions of how we typically define friendship. It's a different version of adulthood, but it's no less important and no less legitimate than anyone else's.

Hanya Yanagihara

#30. Your best friend is the person who not only knows all the important stories and events in your life, but has lived through them with you. Your best friend isn't the person you call when you are in jail; mostly likely, she is sitting in the cell beside you.

Irene S. Levine

#31. From open sea she's chosen me
and dashed the hopes of many.
A life with her is worth the hopes
my love for her may bury.

Uzoma C. Azuonye

#32. You have it on your noise, but you still need a glass to see it ... We need others to admit our faults.

Amen Muffler

#33. I play- it's kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what's their friendship like, and what's their life like and so I just play one of the four friends.

Joan Cusack

#34. We can let go of the person or love or friendship without letting go of the lesson.

Mandy Hale

#35. Life is travelled at a pace one decides for themselves

Chandra Sekhar

#36. Our one goal is to give the world a taste of peace, friendship and understanding. Through the visual arts, the art of celebration of life.

Steven Spielberg

#37. That's what I love about Aibileen, she can take the most complicated things in life and wrap them up so small and simple, they'll fit right in your pocket.

Kathryn Stockett

#38. Here's a news flash: No soldier gives his life. That's not the way it works. Most soldiers who make a conscious decision to place themselves in harm's way do it to protect their buddies. They do it because of the bonds of friendship - and it goes so much deeper than friendship.

Eric Massa

#39. And this way, l'll leave everything behind before it gets the chance to do the same to me.

Holly Smale

#40. Focus on creating value by finding and solving problems for others.

Mensah Oteh

#41. Attention to detail is the secret of success in every sphere of life, and little kindnesses, little acts of consideration, little appreciations, little confidences, ... they are all that are needed to keep the friendship sweet.

Hugh Black

#42. The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#43. Love is more than an unblinking deep gaze, or a romantic fairytale of two hearts...
Love is two people bound by loyalty and deep friendship, standing side-by-side on the same trail of life.

Krista Leontieff

#44. The true leaders of our time, the legends of this world or the movers of the movers are the towering figures that are blessed with beautiful minds, receptive ears and directing voices. They are the ones we should emulate in life.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#45. Amazing love, amazing life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#46. I learnt my best lessons from some of the worst people & I look back now and think thank fuck I let you go, I deserved to grow.

Nikki Rowe

#47. Societies and people that come close to being happy are those that do well in narrowing the disparity between their desires and their needs, especially the material things of life.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#48. Tiny Giggles
Silly giggles of laughter
I store upon a shelf
I give some to other
I save some for myself
I am rich beyond all measure
Though not with worldly wealth
I store up these treasures
For my heart and soulful health.

Muse

#49. When you get older, everybody sort of changes and moves away. I think that stands the test of time, when you have a friendship from youth that's still in your life today.

Michelle Gomez

#50. The underlying issues, the psychological motives, in all my movies have been the same, he said. Personal responsibility and friendship, the importance of a compassionate life as opposed to a passionate life.

George Lucas

#51. I was a little cross.I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.

Abraham Lincoln

#52. For a permanent solution to easing tension and soothe the rough waters of the world that cause people to go to drugs, drinking, gambling, pornography, overeating, or anything that will give them some temporary relief, you can't beat the support and encouragement of a friend.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#53. The human spirit is more powerful than any drug and THAT is what needs to be nourished: with work, play, friendship, family. THESE are the things that matter.

Robin Williams

#54. You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.

Nicholas Sparks

#55. A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer - to be living a kind of double life.

Jorge Luis Borges

#56. At fifty-one, why would she choose to dispose of her house, uproot herself, and come here to be a part of your work if she didn't feel that, for the first time in her life, she was profoundly known for who she is, that she was at last cherished for who she truly is?

Dean Koontz

#57. To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life.

Sarah Ellis

#58. Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. There are three faithful friends in our life,an old wife,an old dog and ready money. A real friend is one who always warms you.
Love is blind. Friendship close it eyes.

Benjamin Franklin

#59. Forsooth, brethren, fellowship is heaven and lack of fellowship is hell; fellowship is life and lack of fellowship is death; and the deeds that ye do upon the earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them.

William Morris

#60. And suddenly that we were laughing out loud, laughing as if there were no power left in us save laughter.

Ayn Rand

#61. If [people] place such things as friendship and family ties above their own productive work, yes, then they are immoral. Friendship, family life and human relationships are not primary in a man's life. A man who places others first, above his own creative work, is an emotional parasite.

Ayn Rand

#62. When we all work together for love, for unity,
there will be friendship, happiness, and beauty.

Debasish Mridha

#63. There's no time like the present,
No present like time.
And life can be over in the space of a rhyme.
There's no gift like friendship
And no love like mine.
Give me your love to treasure through time.

Georgia Byng

#64. I have a lot of wonderful women in my life and each one means so much to me. That's why I'm passionate about finding the cures. Let friendship inspire your passion to fight breast cancer. Join me and go Passionately Pink for the Cure today!

Melina Kanakaredes

#65. A man can't talk of true happiness if he has never known true love - the trusting, selfless and unconditional love that I took for granted.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#66. It's funny how you can think you know someone pretty well, and then something happens or they do something that makes you understand that you didn't really know them at all.

Wendelin Van Draanen

#67. A child who's got the habit will start reading under the covers with a flashlight," she said. "If the parents are smart, they'll forbid the child to do this, and thereby encourage her. Otherwise she'll find a peer who also has the habit, and the two of them will keep it a secret between them.

Jonathan Franzen

#68. Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.

Jane Harrison

#69. In this world it is not possible that everyone will follow your steps. You can't change some one and some one will not change their lifestyle because of you.

Nutan Bajracharya

#70. You enlighten the light of love in my life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#71. The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

Samuel Johnson

#72. They that live at the source of a great river shall always take the great river for granted but they that live at the estuary of the great river shall always watch the great river in awe and admiration!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#73. She never wanted an extravagant life-- only one filled with simple joys like children, family, friendship, good books, funny jokes, and a pint of mint chocolate chip ice cream.

S.A. Huchton

#74. Richard Donner's friendship and guidance showed me that there's more to life than being an actor.

Jeff Cohen

#75. There are certain kinds of currency you acquire in life. Most of it is ephemeral. But friendship and faith in the unseen world and the commitment to be true unto thine own self are the human glue that you never give up, not for any reason.

James Lee Burke

#76. What is the purpose of wealth if it cannot serve an ideal that enhances humanity and betters the lives of the people, even if that means those we have never met before in our lives?

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#77. A Genrous friend gives life for an other friend live this anamalitic behaviour and be kind to one an other

Muhammad Siddique Bugti

#78. You made me see that friendship is a farce and trusting anyone other than myself is the biggest mistake I could make. It was a lesson I had been learning my whole life up until that point. But you tattooed it on my soul in a way I could never forget.

Aly Martinez

#79. Friends are life's ingredient that makes every sad moment sweeter, every difficult time easier, and every normal moment extraordinary.

Johnathan Jena

#80. Was I ever crazy? Maybe. Or maybe life is ... Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever. They were not perfect, but they were my friends.

Susanna Kaysen

#81. You have friends and you have enemies, the trick is mastering that the only difference between the two is; your friends will plot your downfall without you realising.

Keysha Jade

#82. Many kinds of fruit grow upon the tree of life, but none so sweet as friendship; as with the orange tree its blossoms and fruit appear at the same time, full of refreshment for sense and for soul.

Lucy Larcom

#83. I had a dream about you; you were a zombie in a post-apocalyptic world. I was the only human left, you tried to bite me and I said no. We became good friends.

Rodney Jenkins

#84. All losses are sad. The end of an important relationship is also a death. When people fall out of love with each other, or when what seemed like a solid friendship falls into ruin, the hope for a shared future
a hope that provided a context and a purpose to life
is gone. [p. 149]

Sylvia Boorstein

#85. Don't be afraid to take the first step and speak from your heart.

Nash

#86. Talk a walk with me through nature and let's gaze on the marvelous wonders of creation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#87. Hold my hands and let walk together.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#88. Don't write in the name of friendship. Write because it's the only way to make this tiny, insignificant thing we call life into a legitimate and rewarding experience

Joel Dicker

#89. Primarily, 'Black Girl/White Girl' is the story of two very different, yet somehow 'fated' girls; for Genna, her 'friendship' with Minette is the most haunting of her life, though it is one-sided and ends in tragedy.

Joyce Carol Oates

#90. Write what you like, then imbue it with life and make it unique by blending in your own personal knowledge of life, friendship, relationships, sex, and work. Especially work. People love to read about work. God knows why, but they do.

Stephen King

#91. Life is sometimes hard. Things go wrong, in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do. Make good art.

Neil Gaiman

#92. She really did trust Eliza. People made mistakes. She understood that now. And as Happy as she was to be with Ryan again, her friendship with Eliza was just as important. You only met a few kindred spirits in your life, and you had to hold on to the ones you were lucky enough to find.

Melissa De La Cruz

#93. If anyone conceives, that an object of his love joins itself to another with closer bonds of friendship than he himself has attained to, he will be affected with hatred towards the loved object and with envy towards his rival.

Baruch Spinoza

#94. My friends have stood by me marvelously in the ups and downs of my career. I don't believe there is anything more worthwhile in life than friendship. Friendship is a far better thing than love, as it is commonly accepted.

William Powell

#95. You don't have to live happily ever after with every single person in your life in order to live happily ever after. Some unfortunate endings are necessary.

Joyce Rachelle

#96. Yeah, okay. But, Nico, you do choose how to live your life. You want to trust somebody? Maybe take a risk that I'm really your friend and I'll accept you. It's better than hiding.

Rick Riordan

#97. I am careful
with whom I spend my time.
I surround myself only
with those who encourage
and uplift me.

Human Angels

#98. I don't know where life will lead me, but I know where I've been. I can't say what life will show me, but I know what I've seen. Tried my hand at love and friendship, but all that is passed and gone. This little boy is moving on.

Jimmy Cliff

#99. Love is easy early on...it's when feelings ebb and flow and the busyness of life creeps in that real love shines through in small conscious choices.

Steve Knox

#100. Expose human ties for what they really are and you are most likely to find the worst forms of betrayal staring back at you.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando