Don’t be an escort to people on their way to success, for it is equally as if you’re a sign post, leading the way, and rusting at the end.

the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.

Somehow he’d become the one constant in this whole uneven chapter in her life, & the idea that could change was unsettling.

It was because someone who was a real friend was having the exact same feelings I was having, about something that was more important to me than anything else. I bet there are people who...

Amicitiae nostrae memoriam spero sempiternam fore

As I look back over the other best friendships I’ve had that also ended, I wonder if, in addition to simply having a finite amount of time for such intimacy, we also have certain periods...

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often – just to save it from...

It’s bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They’re not. They’re just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire to be close.

It seems like our town has closed down these days leading up to the funeral. Old people still sit on their porches and talk, but their conversations aren’t sprinkled with laughter anymore. Since the new,...

There used to be days that I thought I was okay, or at least that I was going to be. We’d be hanging out somewhere and everything would just fit right and I would think...

Judge not the value of a friend by the number of boy- or girlfriends they helped you get. But by the number of books they’ve recommended to you.

the more one delves into Rumi’s life and his mystical poetry it becomes clear that for him, the issue of faith and reason is incomplete unless one includes the central theme of love.

Sometimes he was weird, sometimes he was Captain Douchebag, but he was always my best friend.

I am as lovely as the moon.

Their friendship sometimes struck Frances as being like a piece of soap-like a piece of ancient kitchen soap that had got worn to the shape of her hand, but which had been dropped to the...

There was a lot of apologizing going on, but I realized that was how it was with people you cared about. You forgave each other and moved on.

Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don’t have trust,...

So, what should I do right now?Stop crying, open your heart, and pray.

You cannot go and warn him,” Saeunn said sternly. “It is too late. You would never find him.””I know,” said Renn without turning her head.To herself she added, But I’ve still got to try.

Love is the bee that carries the pollen from one heart to another.

Mind your business” had been the motto of her childhood. But now that seemed like a failing in a friend.

Friends and People are like clouds and trees that we see hustling past the window of a running train.Trees are like PEOPLE.. all running.. in the opposite direction;Clouds are like our FRIENDS.. like family.. our...

When you feel someone else’s pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.

Amicu certus in re incerta cernitur’ [A true friend is a friend when in difficulty]

Nice work,” I commented drily. “How old was that littlest one? Five? Did she put up a terrible fight?””I feared for my life,” Zach said with a perfectly straight face. “You must be bored, Julia....

Leave this touching and clawing. Let him be to me a spirit. A message, a thought, a sincerity, a glance from him, I want, but not news nor pottage. I can get politics, and chat,...

Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue; but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who have helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with...

What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.

flowers are smooth,smooth is heart, heart is love,love is great,great is a my friendship.

There was something about him that drove the shyness out of you, a kind of understanding that went deeper than words and set up an instantaneous closeness. It was odd; we couldn’t have been more...

Apparently he thought he deserved only to be loved–from a distance, though–and given what he wanted. And in return he would be . . . what? Pleasant? Generous? Maybe all he was really saying was:...

Why had we let it go? Why had we both been condemned…to an exile among dreary strangers who had made us give up all desire for rest, for friendship, for the sound of human voices?...

Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them...

I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I – of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.

Don’t see your Reflection in Mirror , Just ask your Friend.

Well there’s no way to know for sure unless we take a short trip down a black hole.”Coming soon–Vengeance’s Fire

Maslow did not make two different pyramids, one for men and one for women. He did not differentiate in identifying what men want and what women want.

All people may not always know those who are not actually good, but they sooner or later get to know all those who are always relatively good.

…the older I get, the more I believe that if love is to be judged by most of its visible effects, it looks more like hatred than friendship.

People leave imprints on our lives, shaping who we become in much the same way that a symbol is pressed into the page of a book to tell you who it comes from. Dogs, however,...

Friends are like the stars that glow in the sky… you don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there overhead, and even when it’s cloudy, snowy or stormy, even when the power goes...

…I have always believed I cd diagnose this state of being in love, which they regard as most particular, as inspired by item, one pair of black eyes or indifferent blue, item, one graceful attitude...

What I’d had with most of my school friends hadn’t been friendship at all. That had been the habit of the familiar, the reassurance of the unchanged.

Surround yourself with people who get you, it will save you so much drama from those who don’t.

Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book, and creed, and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free. Mankind will be enslaved until there is mental grandeur enough to allow each man...

From the moment I decide you are a friend, it does not matter how long I have known you, because I make a commitment right then and there… To be there for you when you...

You know, Jacob, if it weren’t for the fact that we’re natural enemies and that you’re also trying to steal away the reason for my existence, I might actually like you.

Liking is more important than loving. It lasts. I want what is between us to last, Luke. I don’t want us just to love each other and marry and get tired of each other and...

Saaxiibadaa, markaad guulaysato waxay ogaanayaan qofkaad tahay markaad guuldaraysatana waxaad ogaaanaysaa waxay yihiin.