Baltasar Gracian Quotes

Friends are the best therapy.

I think it's important to cultivate as many people as you can to see which ones you jive with. And it makes you happy. If one dies, you have another one. So living is a process that you have to do by yourself, and if you can learn a few little goodies along the way that might make it easier for you, so much the better.

If you have good friends, no matter how much life is sucking , they can make you laugh.

How does one keep from "growing old inside"? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people.... Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are indispensable.

When you have little kids, you lose friends because you're so busy, but as they get older, you realise how important it is to have your girlfriends around.

Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.

Keep in mind that to avoid loneliness, many people need both a social circle and an intimate attachment. Having just one of two may still leave you feeling lonely.

Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.

Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.

Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.

It's important to have girlfriends, because guys tend to come and go.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

I surround myself with people who make me laugh.

I've found that the more friends I have, the luckier I am.

I have some really great friends who encourage me.

I probably like being isolated more than many people do, but I'm lucky to have the friendship of many fine people, and they keep me from becoming very isolated. The world of my mind is certainly a populated and warm place, too. It's difficult for me to become too isolated with such resources.

I'm not sure I even need a lover, male or female. Sometimes I think I'd settle for five good friends.

Having a friend made everything else suck less.

One's capacity for friendship, which can be developed, is basic to one's capacity for happiness.

We should always have three friends in our lives-one who walks ahead who we look up to and follow; one who walks beside us, who is with us every step of our journey; and then, one who we reach back for and bring along after we've cleared the way.

Friends are like a pleasant park where you wish to go; while you may enjoy the flowers, you may not eat them.

Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.

As long as you are lucky, you will have many friends; if cloudy times appear, you will be alone. -Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos; tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris

In the world of relationships, possibly the most complicated, uncommon, hard to find, hard to keep and most rewarding has got to be friendship.

Man have to have friends even in hell.