Bob Edwards Quotes

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

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.

It is love and friendship, the sanctity and celebration of our relationships, that not only support a good life, but create one. Through friendships, we spark and inspire one another's ambitions.

There is no life without friendship

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.

However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.

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

Life is nothing without 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.

There are three types of friends: those like food without which you can't live those like medicine which you need occasionally and those like an illness which you never want.

In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.

In the past, friendship was a huge thing. But it's hard for us to think of friendship as a calling, because it's not a vocation.

The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.

I really like people and I keep friendships. I have people from all parts of my life.

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.

We need to have intimate, enduring bonds; we need to be able to confide; we need to feel that we belong; we need to be able to get support, and just as important for happiness, to give support. We need many kinds of relationships; for one thing, we need friends.

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

All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later.

Relationships are people's No. 1 priorities. They want to have good relationships, and a lot of times they don't.

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

I'm very close with Brian Davis, Thomas Hill, and Marty Clark.

Relationships are so important to all of us.

I do have many close girlfriends; these relationships are paramount in my life.

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

Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.