“Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”

“The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.”

Mao Zedong (1893–1976) Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China

“It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.”

Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist

“There cannot be friendship without equality.”

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher

“The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.”

John Fowles book The Magus

“Never choose anyone as a friend without

understanding

and never lose him/her because of

misunderstanding.”

Stephie Pahlavi Zan

“A monster. You and your friends, all of you. Pretty monsters. It's a stage all girls go through. If you're lucky you get through it without doing any permanent damage to yourself or anyone else.”

Kelly Link (1969) American writer

“It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not read friendship.”

Haruki Murakami (1949) Japanese author, novelist

“As one gains wisdom, you will realize that the number of friends is not important as the quality of them. The characteristics of quality friendship include trust, loyalty, respect, and time.”

Gandolfo – (RJ Intindola)

“I'm tired of living unable to love anyone. I don't have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can't even love myself. Why is that? Why can't I love myself? It's because I can't love anyone else. A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else. Do you understand what I am saying? A person who is incapable of loving another cannot properly love himself.”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84