Quotes on Friendship from a Spiritual Perspective

A pure mind holds the state of meditation more easily...
Yoga Sutras 1:33 "The mind is purified by cultivating thoughts and feelings of friendship for others, compassion for those who are suffering, happiness for the well-being that others enjoy, and dispassion regarding what is observed."

"You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people, than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."
-- Bernard Meltzer

"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit."
-- Kahil Gibran.

"A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses."
- Proverbs 27:19

Being the Divine Friend - From the Gita - "When we behold all sperate beings as existant in the One that has expanded Itself into many, we merge with the Wholeness of God." XIII:30

"A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked." -- Bernard Meltzer.

Yoga Sutras 1:34 "Or one may definitely overcome all such obstacles by the practice of Pranayama."