Art Quote by Laura Riding

It is the steady and merciless increase of occupations, the augmented speed at which we are always trying to live, the crowding of each…

— Agnes Repplier

Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how…

— Charles Caleb Colton

The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems…

— Charles de Lint

I think making friends you can work with is a skill like any other, developing those particular kinds of intimacies. They're intimacies like any…

— Sheila Heti

We spend most of our lives working. So why do so few people have a good time doing it?

— Richard Branson

Friendship takes place between those who have an affinity for one another, and is a perfectly natural and inevitable result. No professions nor advances…

— Henry David Thoreau

There are certain people that you don't have to even work at extracting their inner life. It is just there and they're happy to…

— Carol Friedman

Of course, on a job, you have a shared common interest in the fact that you're there making a movie or making a TV…

— Jamie Campbell Bower

There is nothing like friendship nowadays ,its the Coincidence of selfishness

— Melchor Lim

Friendship exists outside our modern economy of scarcity... It's not about apportioning vanishing resources of time and energy. Friendship is a blessed relic of…

— Victor Hugo

We are driven by self-interest, it’s necessary to survive. But we need wise self-interest that is generous and co-operative, taking others’ interests into account.…

— Dalai Lama

“in a thousand ways people combine not just in circles of friendship but in formal associations, willingly adopting and submitting to rules and procedures…

— Roger Scruton