Your job is to focus on my personal happiness, she said, & I’ve got big plans, so break time is over.

We are called at certain moments to comfort people who are enduring some trauma. Many of us don’t know how to react in such situations, but others do. In the first place, they just show...

She always says I’m the best friend that she’s ever had… how do you hang up on someone who needs you that bad? ~From ‘Laura’ on The Nylon Curtain

#1425: When you really like someone, tell them. Sometimes you only get one chance.

I am carefulwith whom I spend my time.I surround myself onlywith those who encourageand uplift me.

Today the grass listens when I speak of love. It seems to me that this word isn’t honest even with itself.

Sometimes it is only a True Friend who knows what we mean when we try to speak. Somebody who has spent a lot of time with us, and listens carefully to what we are trying...

I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself...

People think that fun in Christ is non-existent, but there is fun wherever your heart lives.

I bundled in my own blanket and reflected on the strange and somewhat unexpected friendship that was slowly developing between Davin and myself. It was clear to me that he needed a friend, but for...

When we’re all alone, it might be to frightening to bear… but we’re all right beside each other. We’ve got our friends close by! Now, there’s nothing to fear! Because we’re not alone!!!

Except for my daughters, I have not grieved for any death as I have grieved for his. His was a great and beautiful spirit, he was a man – all man, from his crown to...

Make good choices. The environment in which you dwell can have a high influence on what you will achieve. Friends you associate yourself with have the potential to reduce or upgrade your brand. What you...

Try to be a happy memory for your friends.

Is Oeroeg minder dan wij’ stootte ik uit. ‘Is hij anders?”Ben je belazerd,’ zei Gerard kalm, zonder de pijp uit zijn mond te nemen. ‘Wie zegt dat?’ Ik bracht, niet zonder moeite, mijn gewaarwoordingen van...

Friends are only friends when the fights don’t matter because you understand each other better in the end.

…The life of the parents is the only thing that makes good children. Parents should be very patient and ‘saintlike’ to their children. They should truly love their children. And the children will share this...

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

No matter how alone you seem to be right now, just be aware that in this precise moment there are huge amounts of people who totally resonate with you, who share exactly your hopes and...

People are more likely to like you if you treat them with respect and Linseed oil.

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.

Build me up and I with you. For we are more one than two.

My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.

And like a favorite old movie, sometimes the sameness in a friend is what you like the most about her.

A single person is a manageable entity, whom you can either make friends with or leave alone. But half of a married couple is not exactly a whole human being: if the marriage is successful...

i also say you can tell your true friends, by the ones who put a bucket by your bed when your drunk and going to be sick – (my quote – so proud)

There’s no way for them to take away my sadness, but they can make sure I am not empty of all the other feelings.

And I really wanted to see you, too,” she said. “When I couldn’t see you any more, I realized that. It was as clear as if the planets all of a sudden lined up in...

Friendship is much more important to a man than marriage.

Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair.

I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.

Deal with him, Hemingway!

I thought how you can never tell just by looking at them what they were thinking or what was happening In their lives. Even when you got daft people or drunk people on buses, people...

Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love.

Keep anyone with whom you can read in silence.

Do you want to hang out? At your place or something?” Hanging out with Jimmy Hailler will mean that I have to say hello to him every day. I’m not ready to say hello to...

A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world.

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

I still believe you fell into my life for a reason.

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

But the loneliness was still on Danny and demanded an outlet.’Here we sit,’ he began at last.’ – broken-hearted,’ Pilon added rhythmically.’No, this is not a poem,’ Danny said. ‘Here we sit, homeless. We gave...

Better to leave with good memories than have the last ones be the embarrassing, smoking ruin of what once had been a fantastic friendship.

And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and...

I may not always be with you But when we’re far apartRemember you will be with meRight inside my heart

You can greet even the dullest acquaintance with pleasure, if you have forgotten their dreary story.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

The heart becomes warmer when the mild heat of love is coming from two persons. one is in eternal cold and desolation without feeling the friction of love.

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

Someday we’re going to look back on every shared smile and smile some more. It’s moments like this that make life worth enduring.

Your truest friends are the ones who will stand by you in your darkest moments–because they’re willing to brave the shadows with you–and in your greatest moments–because they’re not afraid to let you shine.