Henry Drummond Quotes

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.

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.

If you have a friend, things are better than if you didn't have a friend.

Friendships have been such an important part of my life both emotionally and logistically.

By building relations we create a source of love and personal pride and belonging that makes living in a chaotic world easier.

I don't want to be alone my whole life. It is much more fun to share what you have than to have it to yourself. And it isn't like I don't have love in my life. I have a lot of friends who love me and who I love.

Everybody needs somebody.

I have found that most of the things I want from living I must get from people.

The value of friends has always been a natural thing. I prefer too many to too few.

I'm surrounded by great friends and family. I don't know what I would do without them.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is happy; he is merely existing. The joyous life is the one filled with rich relationships.

Friendship is such an important thing to me, and I feel like the people who I love and help keep me whole - I can't imagine a life without them.

Family is anybody you sit down to a meal with - and very often, after college, your family is your friends or the people you work with.

We all need friends, and friends are there to hold you up when nothing else can.

Everybody understands companionship, wants it, gets it, no matter what it looks like.

I really care about people around me, and I can't live without my family and friends.

In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

We were always surrounded by people who knew us very well and cared about us.

There is not enough celebration of companionship. Relationships aren't just about eroticism and sexuality.

I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.

You can never have too many friends.

When I was a kid - 10, 11, 12, 13 - the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that understood me. I wanted to just be close to somebody.

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.