What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.
A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals the secret of some hidden treasure.
The real friendship is like fluorescence, it shines better when everything has darkened.
Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.
So every year when Christmas comes, I realize a new, the best gift life can offer is having friends like you.
In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
The connections we make in the course of a life – maybe that’s what heaven is.
Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
To be alone means that you avoid bad company. But to have a true friend is better than being alone.
Sharing knowledge is the most fundamental act of friendship. Because it is a way you can give something without losing something.
Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
Community means strength that joins our strength to do the work that needs to be done. Arms to hold us when we falter. A circle of healing. A circle of friends. Someplace where we can be free.
Walking alone is not difficult but when we have walked a mile worth a thousand years with someone then coming back alone is what is difficult.
Live amongst people in such a manner that if you die they weep over you and if you are alive they crave for your company.