No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground. 1.11K
The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you’re actually helping to make America stronger. 1.98K
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. 815
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. 607
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. 1.92K
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others! 664
People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other. 682
Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I’ve ever thought I’d have. 667
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole. 860
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love. 692
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. 643
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love. 692
Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends. 690
