Wise and Inspirational Words Collection

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence. Joseph Roux What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. Aristotle When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character. W. Somerset Maugham Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. Aristotle You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job. Laurence J. Peter

Love has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. Antoine de Saint-Exupery Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible. Thomas a Kempis Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. Antoine de Saint-Exupery Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. James A. Baldwin Love changes darkness into light and makes the heart take a wingless flight. Helen Steiner Rice Love cannot survive if you just give it scraps of yourself, scraps of your time, scraps of your thoughts. Mary O'Hara Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion. Javan Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. John Donne Love builds bridges where th...

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. Henry David Thoreau The only way to have a friend is to be one. Ralph Waldo Emerson The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights. Giotto di Bondone The world is round so that friendship may encircle it. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you. Paramahansa Yogananda There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. Thomas Aquinas There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth. Chanakya True friends stab you in the front. Oscar Wilde True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. Henry David Thoreau Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. Helen Keller

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind. Toni Morrison Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. Margaret Lee Runbeck So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good. Helen Keller 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. Octavia Butler The best time to make friends is before you need them. Ethel Barrymore The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity. Ulysses S....

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. Aristotle My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. Henry Ford Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself. Confucius Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. Elbert Hubbard Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness. Chanakya No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. Alice Walker Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. Plautus Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly. Amos Bronson Alcott Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. Jean de La Fontaine Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend. Friedrich Nietzsche

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means. Charles Kingsley It takes a long time to grow an old friend. John Leonard It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. Marlene Dietrich Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. Oscar Wilde Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. Khalil Gibran Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. Friedrich Nietzsche Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend. Martin Luther King, Jr. Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't. Judy Holliday Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough. Walt Whitman I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar. Robert Brault If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue. Alice Miller If you have one true friend you have more than your share. Thomas Fuller 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. Albert Schweitzer 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. Khalil Gibran Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better. E. W. Howe It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to b...

Friendship and money: oil and water. Mario Puzo Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. Aristotle Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. Jane Austen Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. C. S. Lewis He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends. Oscar Wilde He who hath many friends hath none. Aristotle I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. Katherine Mansfield I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun. Charles R. Swindoll I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. Plutarch I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor o...

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. George Washington Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. Benjamin Franklin Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. Socrates But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine. Thomas Jefferson 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. Anais Nin False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports. Richard Burton Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go. Margaret Walker Friends are born, not made. Henry Adams Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness. Euripides Friends... they cherish one another...

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship. Saint Francis de Sales A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. Walter Winchell A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. Leo Buscaglia A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. William Penn A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success! Doug Larson A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else. Len Wein A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. Francois de La Rochefoucauld A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. Arnold H. Glasow Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? Abraham Lincoln An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him. Oscar Wilde

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely. Pam Brown A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. John D. Rockefeller A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away. Bil Keane A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend. Henry David Thoreau A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. Lucius Annaeus Seneca A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself. Jim Morrison A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity. Robert Hall A friend to all is a friend to none. Aristotle

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. Elbert Hubbard 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. Albert Camus Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. Muhammad Ali 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. Oprah Winfrey When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. Henri Nouwen