Characteristics Quote by George Santayana

Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination…

— Henry David Thoreau

When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when…

— Zhang Ziyi

Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition... in…

— John O Donohue

The more we seek exclusivity in friendship, the more it becomes obligatory and the less likely it is to fulfill the wonderful vision of…

— Harriet Lerner

Friendship is like water. It is the elixir of life; pure and clear. But when doubt and suspicion cloud friendship, it becomes murky.

— Zahid

Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels.

— Joan Walsh Anglund

We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, want, magic - of missing people, avoid others - like loneliness.

— Koena Mitra

Friendship is like a sunrise. It begins dim, but grows in intensity as the day goes on. It warms the hearts and lives of…

— Innah Delos Angeles

“Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or interest or…

— C.S. Lewis

Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard.

— William Hazlitt

Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or interest or…

— C. S. Lewis

Friendship is like the breeze,You can't hold it,Smell it,Taste it,Or know when it's coming,But you can always feel it,And you'll always know it's there,It…

— Ritu Ghatourey