You earn brotherhood—the purest friendship, trust, love, whatever you want to call it—moment by moment through how you treat others.

One of the greatest acts of service you can do is to find someone who is secretly lonely and be a friend to them, if only for a day.

Then you should have died!!! Died! Rather than betray your friends as we would have done for you!!!

Human interaction. The most complicated form of happiness I will never figure out.

Thunderstorms are as much our friends as the sunshine.

You shouldn’t have to pretend to be as excited as I am just to make me happy. If it comes to that, you shouldn’t have to pretend to be anything around me. Friends should be...

Colpo di fulmine. The thunderbolt, as Italians call it. When love strikes someone like lightning, so powerful and intense it can’t be denied. It’s beautiful and messy,cracking a chest open and spilling their soul out...

You’re getting into some kind of shape, cop.”Aw, come on, now.” Butch grinned. “Don’t let that shower we took go to your head.”Rhage fired a towel at the male. “Just pointing out your beer gut’s...

You turn friends away before you discover they were good after all; you give up on your dreams before you realize you were very close to your success all that while. Be patient; don’t rush...

Talk to strangers politely… Every friend you have now was once a stranger, although not every stranger becomes a friend.

I would rather have 1 amazing best friend than 100 decent regular friends. It’s not about quantity, it’s about quality.

There are TWO reasons why you’ll be blessed; For giving and for forgiving

All we really want is for no one to have a boring life, to be impressive, so we can be impressed. ~ on the friends we choose.

Be careful what you say. You can always say you’re sorry, but you can never take back what you said.

Laughter feels like our flotation device — it won’t pull us out of the storm, but it might carry us through, if we can just hang on.

How far would I go to be friends with someone? Halfway.

Then, whenever I feel the sun on my face, I will think of you, ” I told him. “You will always be with me, Bill. Because of all I have felt for you, and all...

When does someone love you enough to put you before himself? Had I done so with Michiko?

Because the first time they met…Y-da: “You know, Y-naga-san, the more makeup you put on, the more you look like a guy in drag. So I’m going to call you F-mio!”Y-naga: “I-I like this person!”The...

Love is friendship…just with less clothes, which makes it far more brilliant.

That is what you love a friend for: the ability to change your angle of vision, bring back your best self when you feel worst. And speak the truth — but without malice. Loving candour...

Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn.

You feel, I suppose, that, in losing Isabella, you lose half yourself: you feel a void in your heart which nothing else can occupy. Society is becoming irksome; and as for the amusements in which...

I knew in that moment, we were never meant to surrender our childlike innocence, to trade a world in which we fit like a glove for one that hung on us like ill-fitting hand-me-downs. However,...

We’re about to hit that age when we’ll be too exhausted to maintain friendships, and the days of hanging out will be long behind us.

She turns her head, Bailey catches her eye, and she smiles at him. Not in the way that one smiles at a random member of the audience when one is in the middle of performing...

Cousin Jimmy thinks I did perfectly right. Cousin Jimmy would think I had done perfectly right if I had murdered Andrew and buried him in the Land of Uprightness. It’s very nice to have one...

You’re my friend, Danny. You understand? There’s no debt between friends.”Maybe it’s just that the debt gets so high you stop counting it.

Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.

Karrin.”She looked up at me. She looked very young somehow.”Remember what I said yesterday,” I said. “You’re hurt. But you’ll get through it. You’ll be okay.”She closed her eyes tightly. “I’m scared. So scared I’m...

You can’t say ‘Oh my stars.’ ‘Oh my stars’ is not a thing, and it makes no sense. The whole point of that saying is that you’re calling out to someone for help, and stars...

Fine! He is being passive aggressive with me, and it’s gonna backfire; I’m gonna be active friendly.

Ask very little but ask of everyone.

I know you’re just trying to be kind. But the world isn’t always kind. So sometimes you have to know what you’re up against, and match it.’ He held up a hand to stop the...

We all get lots of people. And maybe we don’t always get to have them the exact way we want them, but if we can figure out a way to compromise, you know, then we...

We are all the same and we are all different. What great friends we will be.

A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.

Because the difference between a friend and a real friend is that you and the real friend come from the same territory, of the same place deep inside you, and that means you see the...

Leeda knew friends never turned out to be what you expected. They came and went in waves, pulling away and coming back, leaving you feeling safe one minute and lost the next.

I don’t care how happily married you are or how deeply enmeshed you are with your children and family and career — every woman needs a couple of chicks who’ll break out the sangria just...

If we had more reliable systems of law and governance perhaps our friendship would be shallower.

People will walk in and walk out of your life, but the one whose footstep made a long lasting impression is the one you should never allow to walk out.

It struck her how sad it was that all of them had grown up on top of one another like small animals in a too-small cage, and now would simply scatter. And that would be...

Gee, thanks,” Jayden crossed his arms and frowned.

The Bible talks primarily of two kinds of angels- Cherubim and Seraphim. But there is a third kind of angel. If you ever find yourself troubled, suffering or in despair, God may send you this...

But there are times,” said Charlotte, “when it is necessary and an act of friendship to write nothing rather than not to write.

It was my good fortune to be linked with Mme. Curie through twenty years of sublime and unclouded friendship. I came to admire her human grandeur to an ever growing degree. Her strength, her purity...

I guess you can be yourself, whatever that means-the best and worst of you. And they love you anyway. You can fight, but even when you’re mad at them, you know they’re not going to...

A FriendSomeoneYou’re happy to see,Who’s happy to see you.SomeoneYou like for who they areNot just for what they can do for you.

I’m liking that I can throw any kind of sentence at her without worrying it’s too out there.