The Health Benefits Of Friendship

The Health Benefits Of Friendship. Friendships can have a major impact on your health and well-being. People with a close network of friends live longer, have healthier brains, survive breast cancer better, survive heart disease better, and get less colds. “I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing”. ~ Katherine Mansfield.

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

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
Euripides

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Oprah Winfrey

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
George Jean Nathan

Lovers have a right to betray you… friends don’t.
Judy Holliday

Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.
Emil Ludwig

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
Samuel Pepys

Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Elbert Hubbard

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
Baltasar Gracian

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
Plautus

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
Honore de Balzac

One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
George Santayana

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
Amos Bronson Alcott

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
Jean de La Fontaine

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It’s good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
Toni Morrison

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
Margaret Lee Runbeck

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
Francesco Guicciardini

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane Austen

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.
Charles Alexander Eastman

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Mencius

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
C. S. Lewis

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
Baltasar Gracian

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