We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.
— Ram Dass
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In every democracy, it is the people's will that is supreme. We should translate the intense yearning of the people of India and Pakistan for friendship into meaningful measures of cooperation in every walk of life.
— Rajiv Gandhi
There are no shortcuts to genuine friendship. Relationships are built over time.
— Rachel Simmons
When girls can be honest with each other, they can make mistakes on their own terms and discover through experience - and not through knee-jerk adult intervention - what a healthy friendship should look like.
India-Seychelles relations have been characterized by close friendship, understanding and cooperation.
— Pratibha Patil
I realized that everything I had to do I could not do on my own, and so I was almost obliged to put myself in God's hands, to trust in Jesus who - while I wrote my book on him - I felt bound to by an old and more profound friendship.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
— Plautus
Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon never to be able to be further apart than the antipodes. But suppose that you are leaving together to go on and on; it is impossible. To go beyond a certain point is to return to where you began.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
You can never maintain a friendship if you don't tell the truth, even if it hurts.
— Peyton List
In 1962, I wrote a series about 42nd Street called 'Welcome to Lostville.' One result was that the young Bob Dylan read it and invited me to his first concert at Town Hall; the result was a kind of friendship that years later led to my liner notes for 'Blood on the Tracks.'
— Pete Hamill
My off-camera friendship with Brock Lesnar has always been different than my off-camera friendship with CM Punk. But I could not tell you that I am closer to either one of them or either one of them is closer to me. It's just a different relationship.
— Paul Heyman
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
— Oscar Wilde
True friends stab you in the front.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
— Oprah Winfrey
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
We are committed to the development of friendship and good neighbourly relations with Pakistan. I believe that Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto shares this commitment.
There are times in every friendship when you or your friend are too busy to call or are more focused on other relationships. It will hurt, but it's rarely personal. Making it personal usually makes things worse, and being too clingy or demanding can drive a friend even further away. Like people, friendships can get 'overworked' and need to rest.
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
— Rabindranath Tagore
Friendship is a personal issue, and it should remain that way.
— Prabhas
Today, I, too, wish to reaffirm that I intend to continue on the path toward improved relations and friendship with the Jewish people, following the decisive lead given by John Paul II.
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
— Petrarch
Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.
— Paul Theroux
Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.
— Patrick O'Brian
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
— Pam Brown
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
What drew me towards team sport were the camaraderie and friendship. The chance to celebrate victory and success with a group of other people is something I have enjoyed doing.
— Rahul Dravid
A healthy friendship is one where you share your true feelings without fearing the end of the relationship. It's also one where you sometimes have to let things that bug you slide. The tough moments will make you wiser about yourself and each other. They will also make you stronger and closer as friends.
I didn't have any Indigenous friends until I was in my 30s, and I'll always remember and be inspired by the remarkable friendship I had with Connie Bush, an outstanding Indigenous leader from Groot Eylandt on who was on the National Women's Advisory Council with me.
— Quentin Bryce
I love all girl squads. I'm all for, like, girl power and friendship, and I'm all about that.
— Poppy Delevingne
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
— Plutarch
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
— Pietro Aretino
There's nothing that makes me cry and laugh more than stories about friendship.
— Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Once you're on the pitch, you play for your team, and you want to win. During the year, you can play against friends - you can play against big friends and close friends - but once you are on the pitch, this friendship goes away, and you just focus on winning the game.
— Petr Cech
I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work.
— Paul Simon
It's so great to be able to express the friendship between men.
— Park Hyung-sik
I lend people money, but I'd never lend something that would jeopardise a friendship if I didn't get it back.
— Paloma Faith
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
— Orson Welles
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
