Quotes about Relationships
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
— Epicurus
Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
— Anais Nin
Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world
— Eleanor Roosevelt
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
— Henri Nouwen
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
— George Washington
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.
— Dale Carnegie
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular a.. that does so whom we can't tolerate
— William James
No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were . . .
— John Donne
To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if they may some time become our enemies, is not a moral but a political maxim
— Thomas Paine