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• One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.

  Margaret Mead

  Topics in Friendship

• Don’t believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

  Albert Camus

  Topics in Friendship, Honesty

  Tags in Illusions, Integrity/Individuality

• Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

  Rowan D. Williams

  Topics in Friendship

  Tags in Interdependence, Equality

• Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.

  Samuel Johnson

  Topics in Friendship, Kindness

• Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love.

  Jane Austen

  Topics in Friendship, Love

• All love that has not friendship for its base,
  Is like a mansion built upon the sand.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Topics in Friendship, Love

• We all need friends with whom we can speak of our deepest concerns, and who do not fear to speak the truth in love to us.

  Margaret Guenther

  Topics in Friendship, Love

• Friendship is mutual backmail elevated to the level of love.

  Robin Morgan

  Topics in Friendship, Love

• The holy passion of friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring in nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

  Mark Twain

  Topics in Friendship, Money

• Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.

  Jane Austen

  Topics in Friendship, Money

• There is nothing we like to see so much as the gleam of pleasure in a person’s eye when he feels that we have sympathized with him, understood him. At these moments something fine and spiritual passes between two friends. These are the moments worth living.

  Don Marquis

  Topics in Friendship

  Tags in Sharing

• Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sign that you will recognize it.

  Simone Weil

  Topics in Friendship

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Solitude

• The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.

  Francis Bacon

  Topics in Friendship

  Tags in Solitude

• The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Topics in Friendship, Trust

• It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Topics in Friendship, Truth