EcoSalon’s favorite quotes about the people that make us stronger.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. -Buddha
Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything. -Muhammad Ali
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up. -John Holmes
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
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. -Arnold H. Glasow
The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. -Elbert Hubbard
A friend to all is a friend to none. -Aristotle
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. -George Washington
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. -Shirley MacLaine
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won’t go. -Margaret Walker
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. -Katherine Mansfield
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 value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar. -Robert Brault
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not. -Mignon McLaughlin
Friendship and money: oil and water. -Mario Puzo
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It’s good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind. -Toni Morrison
It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. -Marlene Dietrich
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
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. -Margaret Lee Runbeck
The only way to have a friend is to be one. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. -Edward W. Howe
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. -Aristotle
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What! You too? I thought I was the only one.” -C.S. Lewis
I think if I’ve learned anything about friendship, it’s to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don’t walk away, don’t be distracted, don’t be too busy or tired, don’t take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff. -Jon Katz
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. -Mark Twain
A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow. -William Shakespeare
I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light. -Helen Keller
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
The best mirror is an old friend. -George Herbert
There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them. -J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. -Elie Wiesel
The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away. -Barbara Kingsolver
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over. -Gloria Naylor
There’s not a word yet, for old friends who’ve just met. -Jim Henson
Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that. -Ally Condie
There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends. -Sylvia Plath
Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard. -Walter Dean Myers
It’s bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They’re not. They’re just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire to be close. -Rachel Cohn
There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate. -Charles Dickens
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