Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Friendship is one of the greatest gifts a human being can receive. It is a bond beyond common goals, common interests, or common histories. It is a bond stronger than sexual union can create, deeper than a shared fate can solidify, and even more intimate than the bonds of marriage or community. Friendship is being with the other in joy and sorrow, even when we cannot increase the joy or decrease the sorrow. It is a unity of souls that gives nobility and sincerity to love. Friendship makes all of life shine brightly.

The best relationships develop out of friendships.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Friendship is insipid to those who have experienced love.

Friendship, Roland realized, was its very own kind of love.

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

I think of friendship in terms of love.

I can understand companionship.

I think friendship is more important than love, but that love that grows out of friendship is the very best of all.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Love means being happy, and it is that magical feeling which you get around people you love. Be it friends, family. It could mean different to different people, but to me, it is just being kind and happy with each other.

True friendship destroys envy, and true love destroys coquetterie.

Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting.

friendship is love made bearable.

I think love is one of the most elusive things in the world. I don't know that there's a perfect formula for it and that's what makes the stories interesting.

Love is friendship that has caught fire . . .

If more people recognized the difference between friendship and mere attraction, or how love must partake of both to prosper, I expect there'd be more happy people." "And a lot fewer poems and plays," I said, laughing as I splashed about in the scented water.

Fondness is a poor substitute for friendship.

...of two simple men I saw today on the pier in the midst of the crowd, parting the parting of dear friends, the one to remain hung on the other's neck and passionately kissed him. While the one to depart tightly pressed the one to remain in his arms.

Freindshipp is beyond all relations of flesh and blood, because it is less materiall.

Love is dope, not chicken soup.

Friendship's the wine of life.

This is as much a part of my story as anything else. Friendship is love as much as any romance.