Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when.
Friendship is something that is cultivated.
Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.
Friendship is essentially a partnership.
I think for a lot of people, friendship is a relationship that gets devalued once they move on to what people consider to be more important relationships: once you find a partner or when you have kids.
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
Friendship is something whose depth fits human aspirations and fulfills human possibilities. It has heft to it, as a gold-piece does and a gambling chip does not.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.