I think in friendship, you want to be there for your friend, and sometimes you just don't know what to do or the relationship you have with them is not clear enough for you to know what to do. Marion Cotillard
Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces. Austin O'Malley
Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation. Paul Theroux
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other. Oliver Goldsmith
I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different. Emma Bunton
I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another. Jean Cocteau
Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you. Anne Lamott
Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded. Gertrude Stein
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation. Samuel Richardson
When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands. Maria Shriver
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. Charlotte Bronte
Friendship always benefits love sometimes injures. Seneca
Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. Plautus
The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many. James Whistler
Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure. Edward Young
Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake. J. Donald Walters
A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others. Jena Malone