#friendship

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#cannot #even #face #friends #full

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial. ↗

— Nahum Tate

#friendship #greatness #knows #men #private

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God. ↗

— Saint Teresa

#else #friendship #god #nothing #prayer

Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#also #exploitation #failings #friendship #help

The language of friendship is not words but meanings. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#language #meanings #words

We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether... The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#inspirational #family

In my public service, I treasure my friendship with law enforcement officers. I admire what they do and support them in every aspect of their job. I have always looked upon law enforcement officers as my friends. ↗

— Dirk Kempthorne

#always #aspect #enforcement #every #friends

To some it may be a thrill to be known, to me it's a thrill to start a friendship even up. ↗

— Christopher Knight

#friendship #known #may #me #some

[On married love] This love is above all fully human, a compound of sense and spirit. It is not, then, merely a question of natural instinct or emotional drive. It is also, and above all, an act of the free will, whose trust is such that it is meant not only to survive the joys and sorrows of daily life, but also to grow, so that husband and wife become in a way one heart and one soul, and together attain their human fulfillment. It is a love which is total—that very special form of personal friendship in which husband and wife generously share everything, allowing no unreasonable exceptions and not thinking solely of their own convenience. Whoever really loves his partner loves not only for what he receives, but loves that partner for the partner's own sake, content to be able to enrich the other with the gift of himself. ↗

— Pope Paul VI

#love #married-love #friendship

Look, I worked with American Republican presidents and Democratic presidents, all of them, and each of them has shown a deep and profound friendship to Israel, you know? I can't remember anybody who was in that sense negative as far as Israel is concerned. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#anybody #as far as #concerned #deep #democratic