Anaïs 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.

Aristotle:

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

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.

Ben Jonson:

True friendship consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and value.

C.S. Lewis:

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What! You, too? Thought I was the only one.”

Deng Ming-Dao:

Those truly linked don’t need correspondence. When they meet again after many years apart, Their friendship is as true as ever.

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.

Charlotte, “Charlotte’s Web”

M. Forster:

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

Eleanor Roosevelt:

Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world.

Elie Wiesel:

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox:

All love that has not friendship for its base,
Is like a mansion built upon the sand.

 

Source: Wisdom Quotes