People meet when they need to meet.

We are participatory beings who inhabit a participatory reality, seeking relationships that enhance our sense of what it means to be alive. In terms of dharma practice, a true friend is more than just someone...

If my tears spilled spontaneously at that moment it’s because I immediately understood that what was happening, like in a dream, was the treat you had prepared for me I felt your friendship much stronger...

L’amitié, dit-il, ce n’est pas d’être avec ses amis quand ils ont raison, c’est être avec eux même quand ils ont tord.

Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part...

Friendship exhibits a glorious “nearness by resemblance” to Heaven itself where the very multitude of the blessed (which no man can number) increases the fruition which each has of God. For every soul, seeing Him...

Too bad Jason wasn’t a metal automaton. At least then Leo would have some idea of how to help his best friend. But with humans … Leo felt helpless. They broke way too easily.

I was a little cross.I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.

Another week of emptiness, of solitude, though the schooner was fully crewed and there were few places where someone could be out of sight of everyone else. That was the thing about the open ocean,...

People aren’t often asked to make life or death decisions. There are no causes to die for. You can go through life never knowing which of your friends would really come through for you

Perhaps he does not want to be friends with you until he knows what you are like. With owls, it is never easy-come-easy-go.

It would have been better to come back at the same time of the day,’said the fox. ‘For instance, if you come at four in the afternoon, when three o’clock strikes I shall begin to...

True friendship is rare. Don’t let a little dispute ruin a friendship.

A fool friend always does something that the enemy wishes.

My dearest Mary,Both my words and my conduct at our last meeting were ungentlemanly – born of haste and high emotion, rather than friendship and good judgement – and yet I cannot find it within...

I wonder what Piglet is doing,” thought Pooh. “I wish I were there to be doing it, too.

I expect it will turn out that sexual intercourse is possible between Gethenian double-sexed and Hainish-norm one-sexed human beings, though such intercourse will inevitably be sterile. It remains to be proved; Estraven and I proved...

Even though friends say they are interested in your life, they never really want to talk about you as much as you want them to. (68)

what makes you my friend if you doubt my intentions?

Be nice to people whether you mean it or not. You never know when a kind word can make a difference in another person’s day – or maybe even his or her life.

There is no journey greater than the unsinkable, no love better than the unconditional, and no forever more lasting than the invincible

I would die for you. You know that. I would die without you. If it were not for you, I would be dead a hundred times over these past five years.

There is nothing right or wrong in love. Where there is love, then there is nothing but only love.

At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel.

It wasn’t only my friends who suffered from female rivalry. I remember when I was just sixteen years old, during spring vacation, being whisked off to an early lunch by my best friend’s brother, only...

Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that.

But one day you’re going to wake up to the smell of a friend making burnt toast and warm coffee, and you’re going to smile with relief knowing you made it. Knowing somebody found ways...

There can’t be a quarrel without two parties, and I won’t be one. I will be a friend to you in spite of you. So now you know what you’ve got to expect

Why does this mean so much to you, Jon?”The Prince turned. “Because he’s my friend. Because I always know where he stands, and where I stand with him. Because I think he’d die for me...

At any given moment, your circumstances can change. You may not be where you want to be right now. You may not even be doing what you prefer to do. But, if you change your...

You will never know the moon or stars, unless you breathe in their solar system and inspect it from many diverse vantage points as possible.

Perhaps there really is a good that exists; for a century of darkness to be eschewed by a single flame; for a decade of evil done to the heart to be undone by simple and...

Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan.

Where are you from? New York?””Weird you picked up on that,” she said, “I’ve been gone from there for so long.”Like a couple of decades could dilute that accent.

Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.

Sometimes you meet someone, and it’s so clear that the two of you, on some level belong together. As lovers, or as friends, or as family, or as something entirely different. You just work, whether...

The person whom you really, really love may not be here anymore. And you might be feeling lonely, but, there are people in this world who really, really love you, so shouldn’t that equal it...

Martin is your best friend, isn’t he?’ a sweet and well-intentioned girl once said when both of us were present: it was the only time I ever felt awkward about this precious idea, which seemed...

Can I say something?”Go on”I’m a little drunk”Me too. That’s okay.”Just….I missed you, you know.”I missed you too.”But so, so much, Dexter. There were so many things I wanted to talk to you about, and...

That’s the best thing about friendship. It is a gift that cannot be lost. Only thrown away.

Was Mrs. Wilcox one of the unsatisfactory people- there are many of them- who dangle intimacy and then withdraw it? They evoke our interests and affections, and keep the life of the spirit dawdling around...

I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend.

Oh Julie, wouldn’t I know if you were dead? Wouldn’t I feel it happening, like a jolt of electricity to my heart?

Friends are an intersection. A route back to the world.

After the fierce midsummer all ablaze Has burned itself to ashes, and expires In the intensity of its own fires,There come the mellow, mild, St. Martin daysCrowned with the calm of peace, but sad with...

I’m here”.It was a beautiful night.

Oh, jeez,” Fang said, sounding strangled.

To be friends, One has to keep the professional ego and the sense of superiority aside. Why do we misinterpret ‘sarcasm’ it does not mean to humiliate others. You cannot earn respect till you learn...

Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

The foundation of adult trust is not “You will never hurt me.” It is “I trust myself with whatever you do.