Quotes about Friendship

Finally I asked my friend Judy, who spent many years as a student of Sufism and who embodies fana —the self-annihilating love of God—as well as anyone I know. When I asked her to define spirituality for me, she thought for a moment and said, 'Spirituality is the active pursuit of the God you didn't make up.' I loved that. I also did not know what it meant.

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly.

I want to live with that sense with the music I make, with the art I make, with the way I love my kids, with the way I am a father and a husband and a friend and a follower of Christ, I want to live with reckless abandonment to the truth of the Gospel.

You know when I feel inwardly beautiful? When I am with my girlfriends and we are having a 'goddess circle'.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Associate yourself with Men of good Quality if you Esteem your own Reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad Company.

A world where yesterday's classmate and fellow altar server becomes tomorrow's martyr to the firing squads.

I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy - it's serious business.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.