Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?

If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless.

Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.

Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.

A warm, rainy day-this is how it feels when friends get together. Friend refreshes friend then, as flowers do each others, in a spring rain.

My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way.

Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.

Stay with friends who support you in these. Talk with them about sacred texts, and how you are doing, and how they are doing, and keep your practices together.

Study me as much as you like, you will never know me. For I differ a hundred ways from what you see me to be.

Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love.

Let’s rise above this animalistic behavior and be kind to one another.

There is nothing I want but your presence. In friendship, time dissolves.

My heart, sit only with those who know and understand you.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Friends hold a mirror up to each other; through that mirror they can see each other in ways that would not otherwise be accessible to them, and it is this mirroring that helps them improve themselves as persons.

A friend to all is a friend to none.