Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected.

I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime; honours shower upon me from every side; artists pay me compliments on my work; there are many people to whom my position must...

Even though everybody hates you, you’ll always have a friend who protects you and wishes to uplift you from pain, misery and suffering and that will always turn and remain the hardest blow to those...

I have to wonder if you’re not being slightly naive here. I mean, are you saying that you want nothing for people? You have no motives? Everybody has motives. Name the person, the circumstances, I’ll...

The people who know you well are the people who know your vulnerabilities.

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.

….finally I see that it’s never been me, just a blanket that keeps you warm. Easily tossed alongwhen something flashier or someone prettier comes along. Your heart I held so carefully, I see, this was...

I tend to make my joy a private experience and hoard all the fruit for myself, forgetting that the tree doesn’t eat its own fruit but presents it to others.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

Despite all that education and experience can do, I retain a certain level of unsophistication that I cannot eradicate and that my friends find amusing. In fact, I think I sometimes detect conspiratorial plottings among...

Do someone a favour, you make a friend; favour ’em too much, you make an enemy.

It’s January and I’m kicking snow off the ground. I just threw out the flower you made me promise to water, handle with care, because I was too careless, you said. Careless with things and...

Love without humility results in the inclination to act as everyone’s parent, humility without love results in the need to be everyone’s child, and love with humility results in the desire to be a friend.

Well, if you can accept that I’m a great big geeky fangirl, then I guess I can accept that you’re a skeptic and a realist.

What exactly does that expression mean, ‘friends with benefits’? Does he provide her with health insurance?

Yani, nasıl söyleyeyim… Yıllar var, biliyor musunuz… Yıllardır kimse benim için birşey yapmadı. Ne annem babam, ne karım, hiç kimse. Kimseden de birşey istemedim şimdiye kadar, isteyecek kimsem olmadı. Hayal ettiğim herşeyi gizli tutup unutmaktan...

But it does not seem that I can trust anyone,’ said Frodo.Sam looked at him unhappily. ‘It all depends on what you want,’ put in Merry. ‘You can trust us to stick with you through...

One word can end a fight; One hug can start a friendship; One smile can bring Unity; One person can change your entire life!

Saya akan pikul rahsia itu jika engkau percayakan kepada saya dan saya akan masukkan ke dalam perbendaharaan hati saya dan kemudian saya kunci pintunya erat-erat. Kunci itu akan saya lemparkan jauh-jauh sehingga seorang pun tak...

I have a good life, I remind myself. There are plenty of people who love me. They’re just not around at the moment.

We had a dream that we would always be best friends. When we were born, for some it was the end. Now it seems there may not be tomorrow. But despite the horror and the...

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

Life is like a moving train, people drop and others enter, do not bother about those that are dropping but focus on those that are coming in and move on

Good friends are like appendages. It’s painful to lose one, and crippling to lose two or more.

And to the absolute fucking horror of losingyour best friend because you were stupid enough to fall in love with her.

Connection is life; disconnection, death.

There are people who are simply gifts to everyone they meet.

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.

All but one of Zoe Pendergraft’s friends were dead.

The beauty of friendship so deep and nurturing, with infinite laughter is that it comes with no price and shall always be carried in your heart.

You will be surprised at how those who are thousands of miles away from you can sometimes make you feel better than someone right beside you.

People who’s freedom is taken away always end up hating somebody. Right? I know I don’t want to live like that.

She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent...

I think if I’ve learned anything about friendship, it’s to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don’t walk away, don’t be distracted, don’t be too busy or tired,...

Part of being friends with someone is knowing when to speak your mind and when to shut the hell up.

—Alone, quite alone. You have no fear of that. And you know what that word means? Not only to be separate from all others but to have not even one friend.—I will take the risk,...

These three ladies disliked and distrusted one another as heartily as the First Triumvirate of Rome, and their close alliance was probably for the same reason.

Thomas was an annoying wiseass who tended to make everyone he met want to kill him, and when I have that much in common with someone, I can’t help but like him a little.

Love does not request, love provides

Best friends stick together.

Friendship isn’t partying with a group of people to get drunk or chatting with him/her once a week, it’s exactly the opposite. Friends make sure you get home safely and they help you when you...

I was remembering the things we had done together, the times we had had. It would have been pleasant to preserve that comradeship in the days that came after. Pleasant, but alas, impossible. That which...

No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend

When one person comes into contact with another, it is not simply coming together of person rather it is the first and the most important phase of coming together of humanity whether it is you...

I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that’swhy.

transformed” her into a cheerleader by the end of the show. I was just wondering: what if she liked field hockey better?

For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill? Seek him always with hours to live.For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness.And in th sweetness...

Kid” in the Hall, without having to explain who they were. One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about....

Hassan couldn’t read a first-grade textbook but he’d read me plenty. That was a little unsettling but also sort of comfortable to have someone who always knew what you needed.

Depressing thought: my friends were the girls I ate lunch with, all buddies from kindergarten who knew one another so well we weren’t sure if we even liked one another anymore.