The
best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes
friends of them.
-- Helen
Keller |  |
"However
rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."
-- La Rochefoucauld
(1665)
"A
true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least
care to acquire."
-- La Rochefoucauld (1665)
Friendship
arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that
they have in common some insight or interest or even taste which the others do
not share and which, till that moment, each believed to be his own unique treasure
(or burden). The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like,
"What? You too? I thought I was the only one." . . . . It is when two such person
discover one another, when, whether with immense difficulties and semi-articulate
fumblings or with what would seem to us amazing and elliptical speed, they share
their vision - it is then that Friendship is born. And instantly they stand together
in an immense solitude.
-- C.S. Lewis
"I
shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For so
swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.
I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For,
who has sight so keen and strong
That it can follow the flight of song?
Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And
the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend."
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
 | "If
you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then
he becomes your partner.
-- Nelson
Mandela |
"A
true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows
that you are slightly cracked."
-- Bernard Meltzer.
"You can make
more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people, than
you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."
--
Bernard Meltzer
A
real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. Friendship
is one mind in two bodies.
-- Mencius
"Hold
a true friend with both your hands."
-- Nigerian proverb
I
cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no
one is complete enough in himself.
-- Anais Nin
"Each
friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
-- Anaïs Nin (1903-1977)
The
friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can
stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing,
not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that
is a friend who cares.
-- Henri Nouwen
"Love
is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love."
-- Charles
Peguy
 | "There
can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom."
-- William
Penn Friendship
is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue
-- William
Penn |
