Albert Camus Quotes

The difference between a friend and an acquaintance is that a friend helps; an acquaintance merely advises.

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.

All of those measures of relationships that you have in your life help feed your and inform your ability to act.

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.

My support system is simple - people and time. The miracle of other people in your life.

Human relationships are primary in all of living. When the gusty winds blow and shake our lives, if we know that people care about us, we may bend with the wind ... but we won’t break.

There is no life without friendship

Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.

For all of us, whether we walk old paths or blaze new trails, friends remain important.

There is always risk in relationships, but bottom line? The world has no meaning apart from relationships. Some are just messier than others, some are seasonal, others are difficult, and a few are easy, but every one of them is important.

I think the most important thing in life is relationships. I think that feeds us almost like food.

Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.

Few people give themselves time to be friends.

We're trained to believe we should cling to one person only. Yet there are so many people who pass in and out of our lives. Good people, worth people, interesting people. Most of them stay for a little while and then move on. Some of them find a place with us and, if we let them, they enrich us. Don't close yourself off from the rest of the world, Eve. If you find someone who can make you understand a little more, laugh every now and then, give you a new experience, then never feel guilty. You'll just have more to give back to those who are closest to you.

But you cant shut everyone out. I mean you have to have someone to love. . .someone to hold on to. . . someone--

Relationships can be about yourself, they can be about you and your god, you and your people, you and your family. It can be about a lot of different stuff. And it is.

There is no more precious experience in life than friendship. And I am not forgetting love and marriage as I write this; the lovers, or the man and wife, who are not friends are but weakly joined together. One enlarges his circle of friends through contact with many people. One who limits those contacts narrows the circle and frequently his own point of view as well.

Think back to the most important experiences of your life, the highest highs, the greatest victories, the most daunting obstacles overcome. How many happened to you alone? I bet there are very few. When you understand that being connected to others is one of life's greatest joys, you realize that life's best comes when you initiate and invest in solid relationships.

Life is nothing without friendship.

Relationships keep us alive and our lives meaningful.

For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations.

Because everything of value that we will know in this life comes from our relationships with those around us. Because there is nothing material that measures against the intangibles of love and friendship.

One faithful Friend is enough for a man's self, 'tis much to meet with such an one, yet we can't have too many for the sake of others.