Self Friendship Quotes: top 84 famous quotes about Self Friendship

Self Friendship Quotes & Sayings

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Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. — Eleanor Roosevelt

True friendship never questions what it costs you. — Stephen Richards

One thing I learned in life, the only true friend you have in this world is your self. — Auliq Ice

You don't understand," Alecto replied vacantly. "It isn't that I want to die ... I just don't want to exist. — Rebecca McNutt

Caring for friends opens the heart, and gifts us with the privilege of sharing the fruits of our self-imposed and necessary solitude. — Max Elliott Slade

That is the honest nature of friendship. That is when it becomes sincere, and not self-serving. — R.A. Salvatore

Never joke about the job of your friend. He/she feeds their family with it and it affects their dignity! — Rossana Condoleo

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth. — Chanakya

May you love blossom like a lily. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Everyone is a Butthole. — Ted Aramac

Human interaction. The most complicated form of happiness I will never figure out. — Charlotte Eriksson

When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier. — Diane Von Furstenberg

As much as we thirst for approval, we dread condemnation. — Hans Selye

Where self-interest is the bond, The friendship is dissolved When calamity comes. Where Tao is the bond, Friendship is made perfect By calamity. — Thomas Merton

Some people make you want to be a better person, and that, for me, is the purest form of love. — Charlotte Eriksson

The three most important words in a relationship are not, 'I love you,' but, 'Tell me more. — Stefan Molyneux

I was a little cross.I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up. — Abraham Lincoln

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life. — James F. Byrnes

The most valuable gift you can receive is an honest friend. — Stephen Richards

Love is divinity within us. — Lailah Gifty Akita

True sacrifice is the offering of self so that God can realize the power of creativity, compassion and friendship in and through your life. — Keith Ward

Every relationship will suffer to some degree without finding self-acceptance and treating yourself like your own best friend. — L.K. Elliott

When you're alone is when you can count your friends. — Stephen Richards

Protect your self-esteem and self-confidence - it is your responsibility! — Mark Donnelly

You will find love, when you surrender yourself to love. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When you let people into the inner sanctum of your life, you risk having them see the heart of you. (from Vanishing Acts) — Jodi Picoult

Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts. — Anne Lamott

I'm already a monster!" she shrieked.
"No, you're not!" Tom managed to heave himself to his knees. "You're my friend!" he shouted. — Philip Reeve

Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love. — Mandy Hale

Lead your life with love and friendship; self-love as your own friend. — Bryant McGill

It's a lot harder to get someone OUT of your life than it is to let them IN, so please ... be selective. — Mandy Hale

If you desire it, you can get it. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Friendship is a traffic wherein self-love always proposes to be the gainer. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

To earn respect, you must earn your own self respect before you can expect others, to respect you. — Auliq Ice

Always make an effort to be around people who will help you grow. — Joyce Rachelle

The worst thing about being concise with people is the game of puzzle you've made them play. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Love is not self-seeking.
Love is not easily angered. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Both therapy and friendship possessed the common denominator of discovering a self ... — Dorothy Gilman

Friendship gives us the strength to turn from lambs into lions. — Stephen Richards

What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship. — Terry Tempest Williams

Despite the company of friendship we still have ourselves to reckon with at the end of the day. — Darien Gee

Part of not being a self-centered asshole, Colin reasoned, is doing things with your friends even when you don't want to. — John Green

When we make friends then we change from being animals to being human. — Stephen Richards

And we find at the end of a perfect day, The soul of a friend we've made. — Carrie Jacobs-Bond

Don't allow people into your energy field on a regular basis that you wouldn't want to be like yourself. — Dawn Gluskin

It does seem
the more we drink
the better the words
go. — Charles Bukowski

If people don't appreciate your REAL self it's hard to be with them, but you only find TRUE friends by SHOWING that self & TRUSTING. — Jay Woodman

I am friendly.
I am lovable. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I was speaking without thinking about it first, not hesitating, just saying what I felt first. — Morgan Matson

You cannot slay yourself in me, Nor I to all eternity Destroy my truest self in you. — William Rose Benet

If you can't love yourself, how can you love others? — Debasish Mridha

Friendship is strengthened by ... that which ever so lightly elevates us from the trough of self-concern and self-devotion. — William F. Buckley Jr.

There is no key to open the heart of another - except curiosity. — Stefan Molyneux

If you can fall in love, then you can love. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It is proper for people to have friends, friendships without self-interest. Without friends, life is too lonely. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Deal with him, Hemingway! — James Joyce

Friendship is what really resolves and mitigates loneliness while not compromising the self in the way that love does, romantic love does. — Chuck Palahniuk

Find yourself first ... like yourself first ... love yourself FIRST ... & friendship & love will naturally find YOU. — Mandy Hale

Thus another friendship was dashed on the cruel rocks amid the storm of my self-destruction. — Russell Brand

A broken friendship that is mended through forgiveness can be even stronger than it once was. — Stephen Richards

The better part of friendship might be holding one's tongue over the prospect of self-made wreckage. — Barbara Kingsolver

Why is it so easy to abandon ourselves, and why do we so easily fall into the illusion that this self-abandonment is the only way people will like us? — Ariana Carruth

To have a friendship with God, all I really have to do is have a friendship with my Self. — Neale Donald Walsch

Anger and hatred lead to fear; compassion and concern for others allow us to develop self-confidence, which breeds trust and friendship. — Dalai Lama

Everyone is overcoming something, be gentle. — Nikki Rowe

Find someone you care enough about to help you control your drinking. Preferably yourself. — Robert Black

Love is friendship. Love is happiness. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening. — Ruth Rendell

I'd rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society. — Criss Jami

N the face of a true friend a man sees as it were a second self ... — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I learnt my best lessons from some of the worst people & I look back now and think thank fuck I let you go, I deserved to grow. — Nikki Rowe

Love always trust, always hopes, and always protects. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A friend is, as it were, a second self. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

When someone needs you to be small, for them to be big, it's not love or friendship they seek; it's power. — Charles F. Glassman

The only relationships that exist are based on truth. Everything else is just a mutual and isolating delusion. — Stefan Molyneux

I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me. — Joel Edgerton

Gentleness towards self and others makes life a little lighter. — Deborah Day

Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self. — David Brooks

...friendship is something you do. — Nuala O'Faolain

Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word. — Frederick William Faber

The selfish and self-centered have a hard time being kind, even though you and I know that kindness is a source of relief to the soul. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

True friends esteem you of greater worth than you feel deserving.
False friends demand you prove that worth. — Richelle E. Goodrich

What happens this weekend stays between us. We set the rules. — Jayson James

This self-obsession is a waste of living. It could be spent on surviving things, appreciating nature, nurturing kindness and friendship, and dancing. — Tilda Swinton