“Sometimes, friendship may change the world.”
Massimo Introvigne (1955) Italian philosopher
"Friendships and the Tai Ji Men Case: An International Webinar" https://bitterwinter.org/friendships-and-the-tai-ji-men-case-an-international-webinar/
“Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
“The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.”
Rebecca West (1892–1983) British feminist and author
“However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher
Source: The World as Will and Representation, Vol 2
“When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.”
Maria Shriver (1955) journalist and author from the United States
“Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
Quoted by Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington in Conversations of Lord Byron with the Countess of Blessington http://books.google.com/books?id=w648AAAAYAAJ&q="Friendship+may+and+often+does+grow+into+love+but+love+never+subsides+into+friendship"&pg=PA179#v=onepage (1834).
Simone Weil (1909–1943) French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist
Source: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), Love (1947), p. 274
“Sell not the friendship of the Lord for the friendship of the world and its possessions.”
Sufyan al-Thawri (716–778) Muslim Scholar and founder of Thawri Madhhab
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 29
Anwar Sadat (1918–1981) Egyptian president and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
[Address by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to the Knesset, Anwar, Sadat, Visit to Israel by President Sadat, Jerusalem, November 20, 1977, https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/address-by-egyptian-president-anwar-sadat-to-the-knesset, October 9, 2018]
