Mary Astell Quotes

When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.

Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.

All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help

Love with its paraphernalia of sexuality, jealousy, nostalgia and exaltation was easier to reognize than friendship, which seemed to have (excepting athletic equipment) no paraphernalia at all.

Just as I need other human beings in order to learn from them, so I also need their trust. If we aren't aware of that, if we fail to take it to heart and instead betray other people's trust, things will go badly with us.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

Women care about their friends.

Between friends there is no need for justice, but people who are just still need the quality of friendship; and indeed friendliness is considered to be justice in the fullest sense.

Close friendships are one of life's miracles - that a few people get to know you deeply, all your messy or shadowy stuff along with the beauty and sweetness, and they still love you. Not only still love you, but love you more and more deeply. I would do anything for my closest friends, and they would do almost anything for me, and that is about as spiritual a truth as you can get.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.

The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.

Life is nothing without friendship.

As frost to the bud, and blight to the blossom, even such is self-interest to friendship; for confidence cannot dwell where selfishness is porter at the gate.

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

There is no life without friendship

I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.

Confidence is the only bond of friendship.

Actually, I think friendship and love are exactly the same thing.

No one can live without friendship, because what would you do all day without friends?

What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words?

Friendship is very important to me. With some friends, we've known each other since we were kids and it's a very strong relationship. They always tell me what they think even when I am wrong. It's great to share with them the best moments. I also have many friends in the team, and I like to share my passion with them.

It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.

Again and again, I learn how much friendship enriches my life, bringing warmth, assurance, humour, inspiration, a sense of security. It depends on honesty, trust, loyalty. It's about giving. It's for sharing the good times, but also the tough times, hurt, grief, sadness.