“No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.”
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“To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.”
“The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.”
“Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.”
“Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.”
“One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.”
“The friendship that can cease has never been real.”
“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.”
“General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.”
“But it all comes down to friendship, treating people right.”
“Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.”
“It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.”
“Friendship has its illusions no less than love.”
“The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.”
“Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another people are friends in spots.”
“I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.”
“When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better.”
“There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.”
“She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.”
“All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.”
“One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.”
“Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.”
“For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.”
“Friendship is a sheltering tree.”