Judging people based on what others say about them won’t give us the opportunity to know them better.

A true friend is one who will help you get to your destiny.

Life is about getting and sharing. The more you share, the more you get ….and the more you get, the more your sharing responsibility multiplies.

Because with true friends, no one is keeping score. But it still feels good to repay them – even in the tiniest increments.

I could tell we were going to get along from the way he wiped his ass—on my tie.

More people have drowned in Friendship Fountain than in any other fountain representing friendship. I should add that I hold Friendship Fountain personally responsible for the enmity that exists between me and my former best...

High PastureCome up–come up: in the dim vale belowThe autumn mist muffles the fading trees,But on this keen hill-pasture, though the breezeHas stretched the thwart boughs bare to meet the snow,Night is not, autumn is...

Was I the first boy that you had ever found in the darkness? I hurt everywhere and maybe you just didn’t know how to hold me. The sincerest thing I ever said to you was...

With him, life was routine, without him, life was unbearable.

After everything we’ve done for each other, a few harsh words hardly signify.

I guess we all travel through life in a haze of sorts. A fog. The people we only meet in the fog we allow ourselves to lose because it’s not our fault. It’s the fog’s....

My idea of good company, Mr Elliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.””You are mistaken,” said he gently, “that is...

I am always saying “Glad to’ve met you” to somebody I’m not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.

Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together.

And what made these heart-to-hearts possible–you might even say what made the whole friendship possible during that time–was this understanding we had that anything we told each other during these moments would be treated with...

Outside in the garden, which was full of mellow sunset light streaming through the dark old firs to the west of it, stood Anne and Diana, gazing bashfully at each other over a clump of...

A good friend doesn’t let you do stupid things …. alone.

The art of conversation lies in listening

There is a primal reassurance in being touched, in knowing that someone else, someone close to you, wants to be touching you. There is a bone-deep security that goes with the brush of a human...

What type of question is that?”A bad one, I decided, and resolved to keep my mouth shut the rest of the day and just enjoy the bitter sweetness of it all.

It is a great joy to love and be loved.

Por mais que o passado seja a representação de quem fomos, o passado é passado. E deixa de ser passado assim que começa a interferir com o Presente e a condicionar o Futuro.

I wish I could say we all lived happily ever after. I can’t. But I can say we lived. Our love for Nate lives, and he’s left us this piece of himself in his art;...

Best friends are literal and figurative life savers that we should thank as often as possible for rescuing us from ourselves.

She headed for a wide flat rock on the creek’s bank, her posture still demanding ‘no trespassing’ but no longer ‘trespassers will be shot.

I’d like to be your friend—but only if you promise not to ever, ever count on me.

Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).

I always liked ‘nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.’ I think that’s the perfect Eliot quote for the moment we head off to a garden party.

If you have but one friend, make sure you choose her well.

So, we’re not enemies anymore?” She said. “I never said I wanted to be, believe me. When I saw you sitting in your own, eating lunch, all I wanted to do was fool around and...

Don’t be afraid to grow up, Peter. It’s only a trap if you forget how to fly.

I dreamt we walked together along the shore. We made satisfying small talk and laughed. This morning I found sand in my shoe and a seashell in my pocket. Was I only dreaming?

It seems like as we stand there I’m watching my whole life with Hana, our entire friendship, fall away: sleepover parties with forbidden midnight bowls of popcorn; all the times we rehearsed for Evaluation Day,...

Kate picked up her coffee cup, frowning when she saw it was empty. “Did you drink my coffee?””Yes. I was feeling aggressive.

If you have good friends, no matter how much life is sucking , they can make you laugh.

A few of us always compared anything good to: ‘ Isn’t it just like camp?’ When we first got married, we asked each other, ‘Was your honeymoon good?’ ‘Yeah. It was just like camp.

I knew then that death could stopa lot of things, but it could never cut the bond of friendship.

I learnt my best lessons from some of the worst people & I look back now and think thank fuck I let you go, I deserved to grow.

How sick are you? Holy crap. Are you dying or something? Is that why you’re going ona retreat and eating only lettuce?

And in this curious state I had the realization, at the moment of seeing that stranger there, that I was a person like everybody else. That I was known by my actions and words, that...

It is absolutely okay with me if you need to keep some secrets. I’ve been thinking about this and I decided that a best friend is someone who, when they don’t understand, they still understand.

No,” I say. “I didn’t know that,” and as I say it I feel flooded with bitterness at all the things Ingrid kept secret from me.

Alan,” cried I, “what makes ye so good to me? What makes ye care for such a thankless fellow?”Deed, and I don’t, know” said Alan. “For just precisely what I thought I liked about ye,...

We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act...

We can’t really explain what the goal of mentoring is, until we understand what the church is for.

Nobody steals books but your friends.

My friends love me terribly, and their grief will be a screaming storm if I die.

True friendship does not require constant communication because your consistent trust in a true friend is always constant.

May my thoughts of kindness stretch over like a warm blanket to envelop your being and caress your soul.

God, how we get our fingers in each other’s clay. That’s friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.