Nineteen twentieths of [mankind is] opaque and unenlightened. Intimacy with most people will make you acquainted with vices and errors and follies enough to make you despise them.

Sam,” she said.”I’m trying!””Sam,” she repeated.”No,” he spat, hearing her tone. “No!”He began screaming for help then. Celaena pressed her face to one of the holes in the grate. Help wasn’t going to come-not fast...

Severing our young and fragile friendship was a sad ordeal, but sadder still was the fact that this friend found it so difficult to respond to my immediate need, unlike a dreamed boy who always...

Though I may accumulate a great deal of riches in this world, it is only my wealth of knowledge, talents, and emotional bonds that I keep when I leave.

I shook again, tasted plum, and suddenly the words were pouring out of me.”She said I sang before I spoke. She said when I was just a baby she had the habit of humming when...

It all comes down to who’s by your side.

You’ll let him talk you out of your dreams. That’s what love does sometimes- talks you out of your dreams.” “Not me,” Katie said. “Jack would talk me into my dreams.

I’ve been very lucky in my life in terms of people who are able to tolerate me.

American culture enforces such rigid gender roles for male friendships that they are gay unless they materially resemble a beer commercial.

Draudzība sākas tur, kur spējam aizmirst sīkas pārestības.

poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you

As you walk in love, understanding your entire being, becomes perfected.

Nothing bonds two solitary individuals like a good shared drunk. This is a scientific fact. It’s important, even necessary for the long-term welfare of the planet to get good and shit-faced with your neighbor every...

Satisfaction is not the achievement of what we want, but the awareness of what we have.

If you can win an argument by stretching your lips with a smile, why open your mouth and lose it.

The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, ‘What? You too? I thought I was the only one!

I don’t feel that way anymore,” Nico muttered. “I mean… I gave up on Percy. I was young and impressionable, and I- I don’t…”His voice cracked, and Jason could tell the guy was about to...

The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.

Any relationship (friend, romantic or business) that’s one sided isn’t one; it’s a one way street headed in one direction… nowhere. Cultivation requires input from willing participants.

Forever and ever Bonnie, I will always be your friend.

If you can’t be honest with your friends and colleagues and loved ones, then what is life all about?

Au-dessus de mes mots maladroits, au-dessus des raisonnements qui me peuvent tromper, tu considères en moi simplement l’Homme. Tu honores en moi l’ambassadeur de croyances, de coutumes, d’amours particulières. Si je diffère de toi, loin...

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

I don’t like to give up on people when they need someone not to give up on them.

You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends,And how, how rare and strange it is, to findIn a life composed so much, so much of odds and ends,(For indeed I do...

El amor es una amistad con momentos eróticos.

Sometimes it’s your fragrance that comes to me, out of the blue, on a crowded road in a Sunday afternoon.But more often, it’s memories of us that cross my mind almost every lone evening.All I...

Mother Nature has in its nature of bringing and bonding living creatures of same nature and the duration of their staying together depends purely on the similarities amongst their intrinsic characters. Only in case of...

pedicure in half an hour?” on a Saturday morning. To me, that’s what BFFs are.

I like you. Therefore I will decorate you with qualities you don’t have.

It is always better to be surrounded by enemies that make you strong, than to be crushed between friends that make you weak.

Clary,” he said. “You’re Clary. You’re my best friend.

There are people one knows and people one doesn’t. One shouldn’t cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter.

Friend not made , was born

If you wish to befriend someone, look for a person who loves first God then themselves. If they love God, they will be able to love their neighbor, too.

True friendhip is like sound health: the value of it is seldom know until it is lost.

but if Yale joined us, there would be.

There is no greater thing in life than that secret sense of harmony that unites us briefly with the great mysteries of others and allows us to travel alongside them for part of the way.

Find that gem amongst your so-called, “friends.

Never trust the one who praise you frankly

It is better to be alone than to become a person that loses his soul to the fear of loneliness.

Keep in mind that the reason you know you can be good to others is only because you’ve taken strides to be better for and to yourself.

As Isabel acted out her date, both of them laughing, I stayed in the kitchen, out of sight, and pretended she was telling me, too. And that, for once, I was part of this hidden...

Aref knelt, reached into his pocket and produced an implement made from a small stick which he called his miswak, the use of which he silently illustrated before handing her his spare. He also gave...

Everything’s temporary…until it’s not.

La mejor manera de crecer es cayéndose y la forma más útil de ayudar a alguien es únicamente acompañándolo mientras se levanta.

Some people treatloyalty as a lamp:they think, they canjust switch it on/offand believe,you won’t noticethe difference…

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

A few said they’d be horses. Most said they’d be some sort of cat. My friend said she’d like to come back as a porcupine. I don’t like crowds, she said.

Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self.