Jane Porter Quotes

What is Friendship? Something deep That the heart can spend and keep: Wealth that greatens while we give, Praise that heartens us to live.

All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.

It's proper that people have friends, friendships without self-interest. Without friends, life is too lonely.

In the hours of distress and misery, the eyes of every mortal turn to friendship; in the hours of gladness and conviviality, what is our want? It is friendship. When the heart overflows with gratitude, or with any other sweet or sacred sentiment, what is the word to which it would give utterance? A friend.

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.

From a social perspective, I am looking for friends, not acolytes.

Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too.

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

I have some really great friends who encourage me.

Friendship either finds or makes equals.

I am compassionate. I allow my heart and imagination to embrace the difficulties and concerns of others. While maintaining my own balance, I find it within myself to extend sympathy, attention, and support. When they are grieved, I listen with openness and gentle strength. I offer loyalty, friendship, and human understanding. Without undermining or enabling, I aid and assist others to find their strength. I allow the healing power of the Universe to flow through me, soothing the hearts and feelings of those I encounter.

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.

Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.

How bless'd the heart that has a friend. A sympathizing ear to lend.

The boy and his heart had become friends, and neither was capable now of betraying the other.

Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex.

They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend.

friendship is love made bearable.

The important thing is not what we look like, but the role we play in our best friend’s life. Friends choose certain friends because that’s the kind of company they are looking for at that specific time, not because they’re the correct height, age, or have the right hair color

Life is nothing without friendship.

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?

If you are going to be with someone all the time, they need to be your best friend.

I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.

Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.- Don Corleone