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

Jeeter?” Grace whispered into her walkie-talkie. “Are you awake?” She waited.A few weeks ago, she and Jeeter had started chatting on their walkie-talkies late at night when she couldn’t sleep. He always answered her call...

Everyone has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.

A good friend is someone who gets ya drunk and then walks ya home afterwards.

When the author admits to Christians that he was not a Christian himself, he says their dialogue became “distant and rehearsed, like a pitch for Ginsu knives.

It isn’t such a bad thing to always know that someone on the other side of the world cares about you.

I remember a time when I was rejected for speaking my truth. The rejection hurt very much. I kept going over and over in my mind my motives for sharing my truth, and each time...

I’ve loved him my whole life, and somewhere along the way, that love didn’t change but grew. It grew to fill the parts of me that I did not have when I was a child....

Zavolio sam ga, znam po tome što mi je postao potreban, što nisam zamjerio ničemu ma šta da je rekao i učinio, i što mi je sve njegovo postalo važno. Ljubav je valjda jedina stvar...

Little Maiden Encounters FearDeepest regions walked she therelittle maiden sweet and fairventured far from the pathnever a whispernever a laugh…

You usually can’t recall all the people you’ve shared laughs with. But you rarely forget the people you’ve shared your tears with.

Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.

You only know me as an ordinary human being, with flesh, blood and bones, but there is something about me too hard for you to decipher, for if i let you, you will ever regret...

Protect your self-esteem and self-confidence – it is your responsibility!

If Captain Jean-Luc Picard asked you to serve him aboard the starship Enterprise, you’d likely be happy to. You would recognise him as a great leader and a good man, and so you wouldn’t have...

Having a friend made everything else suck less.

Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.

I have another friend who gets what I’m really like, and I get her. She scares me. Did you ever see yourself times ten in another person and want to cover your eyes?

Paine was a grand fellow — high—with the most splendid sense of justice. But he was a reasoner — not warm — not letting out the natural palpitating passion… which perhaps he didn’t have. But...