Christianity, sharing the Christian faith, in common, gives you instant friendship, and that is the remarkable thing, because it transcends culture.
A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.
There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.
The reason why most women have so little sense of friendship is that this is but a cold and flat passion to those that have felt that of love.
CPEC is an epoch-making project going to put Pakistan-China friendship and their economic cooperation to new heights.
I've come, even as a feminist, to dread the phrase 'female friendship,' because it tends to signal overdetermined relationships.
The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond; reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires.
Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.
Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.
Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
We can solve many problems in an appropriate way, without any difficulty, if we cultivate harmony, friendship and respect for one another.
But what have I, but what have I, my friend,
To give you, what can you receive from me?
Only the friendship and the sympathy
Of one about to reach her journey's end.
There's a natural instinct embedded in friendship, a sympathy that makes us willing to fight for someone we like when they are treated unjustly.
He thought of her often, and he missed the companionship they'd once shared and the friendship that had been the bedrock of their marriage at its best.
It is not for minds like ours to give or to receive flatter; yet the praises of sincerity have ever been permitted to the voice of friendship
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
It should be our endeavor to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation, even of that which has injured us most.
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
With the publication of my book, Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship With the First Lady,' I have exercised my right to free expression.
Holy Week is a privileged time when we are called to draw near to Jesus: friendship with him is shown in times of difficulty.
Friendship is an island that you retreat to and you all fall on the floor and laugh at all the other ninnies that don't have enough brains to have your good taste.
The knot of intimacy at the center of 'Ten Thousand Saints' is the friendship between Teddy McNicholas and Jude Keffy-Horn.
He stared at me with bitter understanding. We both knew there was no room in this for friendship. Nothing left but childhood history.
The friendship I have conceived will not be impaired by absence; but it may be no unpleasing circumstance to brighten the chain by a renewal of the covenant.
People instantly assume you can't have a platonic friendship with someone of the opposite sex. I think this may be specific to L.A.—or America.
Blunders, no, only friendship binds us to honesty - attracting crypts of mushrooms in the wake of our snowboards.
Roose is a very cold, pragmatic guy, and he's a survivor. He makes choices based on that, and friendship goes out the window.
My characters have never waged a war against any gender. They are all about friendship and being loyal to your friends.
Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.
Acceptance is the universal currency of real friendship. . . .It does not warp or shape or wrench a person to be anything other than what they are.
Their friendship was more important than any relationship. Guys would come and go; girlfriends were forever.
Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding.
I believe that friendship, like love, of which it is a particular kind, requires nearly as much art as a successful choreography.
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
Friend is a very small word, A little sound we make, For one who is true, one who will do, Great deeds for friendship's sake.
Warmth, kindness, and friendship are the most yearned for commodities in the world. The person who can provide them will never be lonely.
the four virtues a person needs in order to be safe and happy in life: intelligence, friendship, strength and (I love this one) poetry.
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
Their friendship was like a wilted bunch of flowers that she insisted on topping up with water. Why not let it die instead?
One hopes, of course, that a relationship grows and becomes a deep and wonderful marriage and friendship that lasts forever. But that's not always the case.
Friendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading.
Nothing corrupts a politician quite as much as friendship. Good politicians don't bribe; they make us like them.
On a friendship with former president George W. Bush: He's a personal friend, but we've all got the right not to agree with our friends.
What a relief. I didn't have to check the toilet for anything or the light bulbs or the phone. It was just good old-fashioned friendship.
For the good of all, I say: Be careful, the brutality of the world must not be more powerful or attractive than love and friendship.
Look to what you have around you and be grateful, instead of searching for more. All you take with you when you leave this world is love, friendship, and good deeds.
The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.
As the audience, I always love to get to a point where, surprisingly, I find myself in a secret friendship allegiance with the characters that are unexpected.
Despots prefer the friendship of the dog, who, unjustly mistreated and debased, still loves and serves the man who wronged him.
What strikes me most about Best Buddies International is the simplicity and magnitude of the mission. Friendship is a simple idea.
Stick around long enough to be someone's friend. Because true friendship, once recognized, in its essence is effortless.
Perhaps. . .love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.
Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word.
My father tutored me well on amnesia. He always said it was a necessary ingredient for any friendship. (Kiara)
You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk.
I learned about what I love. Imagination, deep friendship, animals, family, the natural world, ideas and ideals ... and silliness.
I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman. Friendship is far more human.
A true test of friendship, to sit or walk with a friend for an hour in perfect silence , without wearying of one another's company.
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