Friendship Quotes

The chosen family. Quotes about the people who show up, stick around, and make life better.

18559 quotes

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