Friendship Quotes
The chosen family. Quotes about the people who show up, stick around, and make life better.
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"True friendship is a mirror that reflects both your light and shadow."Wisdom, John
"The capacity for friendship is a supreme gift of nature."Moore, George Edward
"The good person wishes well for others not as a means but as an end."Foot, Philippa
"Friendship demands honesty even when kindness tempts us toward silence."Austin, John Langshaw
"Friendship flourishes when both parties risk genuine self-disclosure and honesty."Austin, John Langshaw
"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too?"Weil, Simone
"Friendship requires perpetual vigilance."Weil, Simone
"Community is the redemption of the individual."Rosenzweig, Franz
"Friendship is the form of human relationship in which we are valued for ourselves, not for what we can do."Strawson, Peter Frederick
"A true friend is one who knows you completely and loves you still."Moore, George Edward
"Community is the being no longer side by side but with one another."Buber, Martin
"The fundamental fact of the relation of man to man is not struggle, but communion."Buber, Martin
"The community that truly exists is not the multitude but the fellowship."Buber, Martin
"Community grows from the capacity for genuine dialogue."Buber, Martin
"Friendship is the most necessary relationship for human flourishing."Weil, Simone
"Friendship is love stripped of its complications and perfected through constancy."Moore, George Edward
"Fraternity is rooted in our shared vulnerability."Levinas, Emmanuel
"True friendship is born when one person says to another: 'You too? I thought I was the only one.'"Arendt, Hannah
"Friendship is the dialogue with an irreconcilable other."Blanchot, Maurice
"A friendship without reciprocal weakness cannot be true."Weil, Simone
"Friendship requires the willingness to be changed by the other."Weil, Simone
"A true friend is a mirror to your soul."Moore, George Edward
"Community is not a luxury but a fundamental necessity for human flourishing."Rosenzweig, Franz
"Friendship exists in the space between words unspoken."Blanchot, Maurice
"Friendship is the school of redemption."Rosenzweig, Franz
"Friendship transcends utility and celebrates the beloved's being."Rosenzweig, Franz
"Solidarity is forged through struggle."Althusser, Louis
"Friendship demands a peculiar death, a going toward the other without return."Blanchot, Maurice
"The friend is the one who inhabits my death."Blanchot, Maurice
"Community is the being no longer side by side but with one another of a multitude of persons."Buber, Martin