Margaret Guenther: “[W]e all need friends with whom we can speak of our deepest concerns, and who do not fear to speak the truth in love to us.
Mohandas K. Gandhi: “It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.”
Mark Twain: “The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.”
Ella Wheeler Wilcox: “All love that has not friendship for its base,
Is like a mansion built upon the sand.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.”
Rabindranath Tagore: “Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.”
Rachel Carson: “If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.”
Simone Weil: “Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sign that you will recognize it.”
Robert McAfee Brown: “How does one keep from 'growing old inside'? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people…. Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are indispensable.”
Emily Dickinson: “Bereavement in their death to feel
Whom We have never seen --
A Vital Kinsmanship import
Our Soul and theirs -- between --
For Stranger -- Strangers do not mourn --
There be Immortal friends
Whom Death see first -- ‘tis news of this
That paralyze Ourselves...
Who, vital only to Our Thought --
Such Presence bear away
In dying -- ‘tis as if Our Souls
Absconded -- suddenly -- ”
Henry Ward Beecher: “It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.”
Mark Twain: “Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
Ann Richards: “I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.”
Katherine Mansfield: “I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.”
Henry David Thoreau: “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?”
Ralph Waldo Emerson: “The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.”
George Washington: “Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.”
Theodore H. White: “To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.”
Samuel Johnson: “Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.”
Eleanor Roosevelt: “Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world.”
Thomas Jefferson: “But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.”
Jessamyn West: “Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.: “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends”
Jane Austen: “Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson: “He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.”
Henri Nouwen: “When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. 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.”
Aristotle: “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
Seneca: “Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.”
David Hume: “Truth springs from argument amongst friends.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson: “A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.”
Jane Austen: “Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.”
Elie Wiesel: “Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”
Louisa May Alcott: “'Stay' is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.”
Maya Angelou: “Alone, all alone
Nobody, but nobody
Can make it out here alone.”
Francis Bacon: “There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.”
Francis Bacon: “We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.”
William Blake: “The bird a nest
the spider a web
the human friendship.”
William Blake: “It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”
Edward Bulwer-Lytton: “It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.”
Confucius: “Silence is the true friend that never betrays.”
Francis David (attributed): “We need not think alike to love alike.”Emily Dickinson: “I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you -- Nobody -- too?
Then there's a pair of us?
Don't tell! they'd advertise -- you know!”
Norman Douglas: “To find a friend one must close one eye; To keep him, two.”
Ecclesiasticus 6:14: “A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure.”
George Eliot: “Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson: “A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson: “The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
Epicurus: “It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.”
Shusha Guppy: “The verb 'to love' in Persian is 'to have a friend.' 'I love you' translated literally is 'I have you as a friend,' and 'I don't like you' simply means 'I don't have you as a friend.'”
Edgar Watson Howe: “When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.”
Zora Neale Hurston: “It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.”
C. S. Lewis: “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You, too? Thought I was the only one.'”
Audre Lorde: “The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.”
Abraham Lincoln: “Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?”
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.”
George Santayana: “The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.”
Cornelia Otis Skinner: “To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.”
Robert Louis Stevenson: “We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.”
Mark Twain: “The holy passion of friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring in nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.”
Henry David Thoreau: “True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.”
Gore Vidal: “Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.”
Simone Weil: “The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, 'What are you going through?'”
E. B. White: “You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.”
Unknown: “Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes.”
It's a Wonderful Life: “Remember, no man is a failure who has friends.”
Unknown: “Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.”
Karl Menninger: “Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.”
Rowan D. Williams: “Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.”
Don Marquis: “There is nothing we like to see so much as the gleam of pleasure in a person's eye when he feels that we have sympathized with him, understood him. At these moments something fine and spiritual passes between two friends. These are the moments worth living.”
Elizabeth Foley: “The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.”
Arthur Ashe: “We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.”
Charles Caleb Colton: “We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh: “If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.”
George Eliot: “What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
Bertrand Russell: “A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.”
Blaise Pascal: “Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back. ”
Albert Camus: “Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.”
Rollo May: “There is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and changes the relationship forever.”
George Macdonald: “But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air, and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up, and it cankers and breeds worms.”
Samuel Coleridge: “Friendship is a sheltering tree.”
Ben Jonson: “True friendship consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and value.”
Marcel Proust: “Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “Friendship is a sheltering tree.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson: “It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
Abraham Lincoln: “I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.”
Henry David Thoreau: “Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.”
Anais Nin: “Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back: a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”
Henry Van Dyke: “It is not the gift, but the thought that counts.”
Melody Beattie: “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson: “I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.”
Hafiz of Persia: “We don't need sugar, flour or rice or anything else. We just want to see our dear ones.”
Margaret Mead: “One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.”
Betty Ford: “You can make it, but it's easier if you don't have to do it alone.”
James Ishmael Ford: “In the spiritual life nowhere do our ideals meet the actual more truly than in how we relate to each other, in how we make, sustain and are friends.”
Henry David Thoreau: “How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might go and meet their ideal cousins.”
Georgia O'Keeffe: “Nobody sees a flower -- really -- it is so small it takes time -- we haven't time -- and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.”
Francis Bacon: “The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.”
Karl Menninger: “Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.”
Indira Gandhi: “You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.”
Rachel Naomi Remen: “The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention.... A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson: “The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.”
Cicero: “It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.”
Marlene Dietrich: “It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”
Anna Garlin Spencer: “The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life long experience of the greatest value to themselves and to all their circle of acquaintance and of activity; but for this type of friendship both a rare man and a rare woman are needed. Perhaps it should be added that either the man or the woman thus deeply bound in lifelong friendship who seeks marriage must find a still rarer man or woman to wed, to make such a three cornered comradeship a permanent success.”
Friedrich Nietzsche: “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
Cicero: “It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.”
Marlene Dietrich: “It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”
Anna Garlin Spencer: “The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life long experience of the greatest value to themselves and to all their circle of acquaintance and of activity; but for this type of friendship both a rare man and a rare woman are needed. Perhaps it should be added that either the man or the woman thus deeply bound in lifelong friendship who seeks marriage must find a still rarer man or woman to wed, to make such a three cornered comradeship a permanent success.”
Friedrich Nietzsche: “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
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