Inner Wisdom Quotes

Quotes on Friendship

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Friendship
Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
- Lord Byron
Lord Byron Friendship
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.
- Anaïs Nin
Anaïs Nin Friendship
Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.
- H. Jackson Brown Jr.
H. Jackson Brown Jr. Friendship
In romance, we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship, we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.
- Mariella Frostrup
Mariella Frostrup Friendship
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
- Baltasar Gracián
Baltasar Gracián Friendship
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
Euripides Friendship
Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.
- Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie Friendship
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.
- Kahlil Gibran
Kahlil Gibran Friendship
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
Bruce Lee Friendship