Inner Wisdom Quotes

Quotes on Friendship

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
- Bruce Lee
A friend in power is a friend lost.
- Henry Adams
The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.
- Ovid
Value your friendship. Value your relationships.
- Barbara Bush
When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.
- Maria Shriver
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
- Elie Wiesel
Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
- Thomas Jefferson
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson