Seeking Solace: 63 Literary Quotes On The Beauty of Nature

“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”

— Marcel Proust

“Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”

— E. B. White, amazon.com

“There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound.”

— Diana Cortes, scrapbook.com

“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”

— Jean de La Fontaine, britannica.com

“True friendship is hating on everything together.”

— Violet Benson, instagram.com

“True friendship is when two friends can walk in opposite directions, yet remain side by side.”

— Josh Grayson, amazon.com

“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”

— Thomas Aquinas, etd.ohiolink.edu

“True friendship and trust are two of the greatest gifts you can give to someone. Cherish and treasure them.”

— Maine Mendoza, twitter.com

“Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.”

— A. Bronson Alcott, amazon.com

“From sunrise to sunset, I was in the forest, sometimes far from the house, with my goat who watched me as a mother does a child. All the animals in the forest became my friends, even dangerous and poisonous ones. Thanks to my goat-mother and my Indian nurse, I have always enjoyed the trust of animal…”

— Diego Rivera, amazon.com

“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.”

— Euripides

“Friends are a strange, volatile, contradictory, yet sticky phenomenon. They are made, crafted, shaped, molded, created by focused effort and intent. And yet, true friendship, once recognized, in its essence is effortless.”

— Vera Nazarian, goodreads.com

“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg, even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.”

— Bernard Meltzer

“The slightest pressure of a petal in your hand: I left a bouquet of flowers at your door. Pretty, bright, and fake because I would never kill anything to prove that you (you, with the slightest pressure of your skin) pulled me back to life.”

— Marianna Paige

“You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing.”

— Charlotte, amazon.com

“An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.”

— Buddha, amazon.com

“Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.”

— Ed Cunningham

“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”

— Kahlil Gibran, amazon.com

“Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends. Mmm, I get high with a little help from my friends. Oh, I'm gonna try with a little help from my friends.”

— The Beatles, amazon.com

“Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breat…”

— Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, amazon.com

“In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.”

— Albert Schweitzer

“Wilber: Why did you do all this for me? I've never done anything for you. Charlotte: You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing.”

— E.B White, amazon.com

“People just need a little help because they are so used to not loving.”

— Miranda July, amazon.com

“Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.”

— Muhammad Ali, biographyonline.net

“I support the arts and I'm a really good friend.”

— Ari Graynor, Katie, amazon.com

“Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.”

— G. Randolf

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”

— Aristotle, amazon.com

“A new friend represents a new universe, created the day she/he arrived.”

— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com

“There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.