65 phrases about true friendship

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1. Not even the greatest of successes can be compared to the happiness of having a good friend. Juan Armando Corbin

2. “Friendship is an affective relationship based on communication, understanding, mutual support, affection and harmony among its members.” Carl Rogers

3. “It is time to stop seeing our friendships as a luxury and start recognizing them for what they really are: a powerful means to invest in our well-being, development and community.” Miriam Kirmayer

4. “True friendship must be based on the things we share and will share in the future, without any intention of getting anything in return.” Jorge Bucay

5. “A friend, a person who is truly understanding, who takes the trouble to listen to us and consider our problems, can change our vision of the world.” elton mayo

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6. A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world. Leo Buscaglia

7. “The capacity of our heart for friendship, like our muscles, obeys the biological principle “use it or lose it.” If we do not regularly exercise our ability for contact and relationships, to tune in affectively with others, we will end up losing part of our basic biological ability to do so. Richard G. Erskine

8. “The great lesson is that the sacred hides in the ordinary, in everyday life: in the neighbors, friends, family; in our own backyard.” abraham maslow

9. “Friendship has a profound effect on physical well-being. Having good personal relationships helps improve health and fights depression.” eugene kennedy

10. “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if any reaction occurs, both are transformed.” Carl Gustav Jung

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11. Wherever you are, it’s your friends who shape your world. William James

12. “Friendship can be very positive and enriching, but as long as it is free of submission and judgment.” Ramon Soler

13. “Friendship and contact between people of different types is beneficial and fruitful. We should all seek the company of people belonging to another type during our free time.” Roberto Assagioli

14. “Not even the greatest of successes can compare to the happiness of having a good friend.” Juan Armando Corbin

15. “Real friends take ‘no’ for an answer.” Ferran Ramon-Cortes

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16. It is easier to have sex than friendship with someone of the opposite sex, so when two people choose each other as friends, it is good that they honor the bond. Sergio Sinai

17. “When a relationship is authentic, thanks to empathy people share a common field of emotions.” roll may

18. “Friendship is the springboard for every other kind of love, spilling over into the other important relationships in life.” Alan McGinnis

19. “Friendship is solid proof that we have a conscience of humanity and that we are willing to share it.” Emma S.Etuk

20. “Many people go through life without getting married; some don’t get to know the texture of a true family. However, very rarely do we find someone who has lived without having any friends.” Thomas R Brigante

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21. Adolescence is the moment in which we commit ourselves for the first time to love, friendship and the rest of the satisfactions that life can offer us. charlotte bühler

22. “Friends are the support to endure the unbearable of existence.” Helen Kaplun

23. “We can have many connections around us, but if they are not meaningful, if they are not based on emotional intimacy and trust, if they are not reciprocated, then they are not going to do us any good.” Caroline Anderson

24. “Wherever you are, it’s your friends who shape your world.” William James

25. “Why is it so indescribably beneficial to think that someone besides me knows me?” Karen Horny

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26. Treat anyone like a friend and you will never lack company or a helping hand when you need it. Francesc Miralles

27. “A good friendship develops out of a certain amount of unconditional respect and consideration.” C. Eugene Walker

28. “People cannot be loved simply by desiring them, because then we would use them for our own satisfaction. People must be loved in another way: with the love of friendship or benevolence.” Erich Fromm

29. “It is not the difference that prevents love, friendship, communication, joy. It is the attitude towards the difference that opens or closes the doors for you.” Geronimo Acevedo

30. “Friendship, that relationship without dependency, without episode and where, nevertheless, all the simplicity of life fits, goes through the recognition of common strangeness.” Maurice Blanchot

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31. We need other people who are interested in us and whom we can trust, that is, friends, in order to live a meaningful life. Robert S Albert

32. “All positive interactions with other human beings involve, to some extent, the experience of visibility: the experience of being seen and understood.” Nathaniel Branden

33. “Friendship, affection and trust were the things that, before people signed contracts, long before laws were written, held human societies together.” Robert Wright

34. “We could choose a partner, make friends, hire staff that make us feel perfect. But, think about it, don’t you want to grow?” Carol S. Dweck

35. “Those who surround themselves with ‘friends’ who simply reinforce their public image, who never question their dreams and desires, who never force them to try new ways of being, miss out on the opportunities that friendship presents.” Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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36. In friendship we learn to look with another person’s eyes, to listen with their ears, and to feel with their hearts. Alfred Adler

37. “No doctor can prescribe friendship and love: they are complex and hard-earned capabilities.” Bessel A. van der Kolk

38. “You can make more friends in two months by taking an interest in others than you can in two years of trying to get others to take an interest in you.” Dale Carnegie

39. “Only through friendship or love can we recognize someone in all their integrity.” Maurice Natanson

40. “Friendship is the purest love: in which nothing is asked for, conditions are not placed, simply enjoyment is given.” Osho

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41. Friends can eat together, live together, talk together, have fun together, go out together. But in addition to all that, they stay together their whole lives and help each other when they need it. Eric Berne

42. “Friendship is a useful and stimulating way of loving. Friendship is the love of equals, based on an appreciation of the value of the other person.” Everett L. Shostrom

43. “The value of a friend is not so much what he can do for me, but how much he cares about me.” robert kurzban

44. “Within the intimate bond of a friendship, people explore new ideas and meanings, search through their thoughts and feelings, find new meanings.” Clark E. Moustakas

45. “The friendly impulse often springs from the affective depths of our psyche, long before we have been able to acquire rational knowledge of the other.” Ignace Lepp

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46. ​​Friendship is thinking of the other person first. George Alexiou

47. “Finally feeling the presence of a man to whom I feel inferior, and eventually the relationship of mutual respect and friendship that emerged – all this helped me to overcome most of my pomposity and falsehood.” Fritz Perls

48. “When the people in our lives don’t really know us, they don’t understand us. When we’re not understood, especially by our family and friends, we join the lonely crowd.” Sidney M. Jourard

49. “Relationships with others matter more than anything else in the world.” George Vaillant

50. “Friends use each other constantly. The challenge is learning to distinguish when we are useful and when we are being used.” Daniel J. Hruschka

51. “A friend is someone who knows everything about you and still loves you.” Elbert Hubbard

52. “Friendship marks a life even more profoundly than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession; friendship is just sharing.” Elie Wiesel

53. “A true friend is someone who is by your side when they would rather be anywhere else.” Len Wein

54. “Friendship is the only thing in the world about the usefulness of which all men agree.” Cicero

55. “The best mirror is an old friend.” George Herbert

56. “True friendship arises when the silence between two people is comfortable.” david tyson

57. “A true friend is one who reaches out to you when the rest of the world leaves.” walter winchell

58. “The only way to have a friend is to be one.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

59. “A true friend is the greatest of blessings and the one we least think of acquiring.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

60. “A friend is someone who gives you the freedom to be yourself.” Jim Morrison

61. “A friend is someone who knows you as you are, understands where you’ve been, accepts who you’ve become, and still allows you to grow.” William Shakespeare

62. “The language of friendship is not words, but meanings.” Henry David Thoreau

63. “It is not enough to be friendly….