Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Either be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good--a mere stranger will do no harm.

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.

How much of our lives is consumed with meeting people, attracting people, keeping people and missing people? Usually, when everything is resolved romantically in one of my books, the characters stop talking in my head, and I stop telling the story.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Life is about relationships, not transactions.

Life is nothing without friendship.

Life's deepest meaning is not found in accomplishments , but in relationships

We all say in our own lives that money isn't everything. Love matters, friendships matter. My relationship with my kids matters. It shouldn't be a giant leap to take that thought and introduce it into political dialogue

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.

If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.

The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.

I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation. These I shall have.

No one can live without friendship, because what would you do all day without friends?

I'll tell you something. Once I was very fond of a poem by Emily Dickinson or somebody. I only remember one line of it, but it goes, 'The soul selects her own society.' I used to tell it to everybody. Once I quoted it to a friend of mine, and he said, 'Maybe, but the body gets thrown into bed with the goddamnedest people.

It is not, as somebody once wrote, the smell of corn bread that calls us back from death; it is the lights and signs of love and friendship.

I think people often try to find through sex things that are much easier to find in other ways.

I shall also take you forth and carve our names together in a yew tree, haloed with stars.

Friendships, along with love, make life worth living.

To ask me whether I could endure to live without friends is absurd. It is easy enough to live out of material sight of friends, but to live without human love is impossible.

I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman. Friendship is far more human.

Time and love are the most valuable possessions you can share.

Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.

Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.

Never ask, "Who is my real friend?" Ask, "Am I a real friend to somebody?" That is the right question. Always be concerned with yourself.

Surround yourself with love, not friends.