Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make only one heart with only a common thought. That is why separation is so painful; it is not...

Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?

If you mess with her head, I’ll personally hunt you down, but otherwise, good luck. If you can get her to talk, you’re a freaking miracle worker. Hell, if you can get her to actually...

In 1881, being on a visit to Boston, my wife and I found ourselves in the Parker House with the Ingersoll’s, and went over to Charleston to hear him lecture. His subject was ‘Some Mistakes...

You want a friend in this city? [Washington, DC.] Get a dog!

There is no friendship between kings.

…Sleepovers and dance parties and those talks we would have until three in the morning that would make us feel lousy the next day because we’d slept like hell but also feel good because the...

I didn’t want to upset my loved ones, but I couldn’t carry this alone.

Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after awhile and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came.

When I was little, my dad used to tell me, “Will, you can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friends nose.

The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

None of them were easy or soft or simple. They were like me, nursing hurts and hidden wounds, all broken in different ways. We didn’t quite fit together. We had edges so jagged we cut...

Scully,’ [Mulder] said, his voice quiet and serious, ‘with the… unorthodox explanations I often find when studying the evidence, I know you’re always skeptical-but every time you’re at least fair to me. You respect my...

Nurturing, Providing, and loving you passionately. May that be, my number of responsibilities. As one to the end, forever more. That’s how long I desire, our love to last for. Providing for you many and...

Do you miss being friends with Santangelo?” I ask her after the lights are out and we’re almost asleep.”What makes you think were friends?””Everything.”I hear her yawn.”Being enemies with him is better.” she tells me....

Why see a therapist when you have friends who’ll do the job for free?

If your friend wishes to read your ‘Plutarch’s Lives,’ ‘Shakespeare,’ or ‘The Federalist Papers,’ tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will lend him your car or your coat – but your...

Without the friendship we’d never have discovered the reason we were friends.

And I’ll dance with you in Vienna,I’ll be wearing a river’s disguise.The hyacinth wild on my shouldermy mouth on the dew of your thighs.And I’ll bury my soul in a scrapbook,with the photographs there and...

I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful disaster of human life as ever redeemable and redeemed by compassion, friendship and love.

I had to be right in never talking about what you could not change, and I had to make many people agree that I was right. None of them ever accused me of being responsible...

Prove to me that you deserved it.

Hasten Little Maiden…stop and listenfor pearls of wisdomstop and listen as the river glistens…

Art is a side product of a perfect frendship or the lack of it…

The sense of belonging together had been deeper than love.

My friend is my friend, even if he wears rag, even if he wasn’t born with a silver spoon, even if nobody wants to be his friend, i will hurt his critics by remaining his...

No matter how near, no matter how far, friends forever is what we are

Gratitude is a way of creativity.

It has often been hard for me to know if people are serious when they talk about making T-shirts. Just to be clear: Nobody ever means it, ever. Making and wearing matching, themed T-shirts is...

Y por que el sol es tan mal amigodel caminante en el desierto?Y por que el sol es tan simpaticoen el jardin del hospital?And why is the sun such a bad companionto the traveler in...

Love is a kind of killing, Addy,” she says. “Don’t you know that?

It is a truism but it is still true that the longer one knows people the less relevant it becomes whether or not one liked them initially.

Where loyalty bound creatures together, they became something larger, something new and whole and inexplicable.

A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ….one friend who always makes her laugh… and one wholets her cry…

Show me what you’ve written,” I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it.

Life is short, no use wasting it with bad people.

I wish I knew what I looked like in other peoples eyes.

For the friendships which we buy with a price, and do not gain by greatness and nobility of character, though they be fairly earned are not made good, but fail us when we have occasion...

I realized at that moment – observing his form move further away without once turning back – that I’d already begun to rebuild the imaginary wall between us. I was shielding my heart with stone...

There is no key to open the heart of another – except curiosity.

We dragged Linc along. His current honey is working tonight.””Still the intern?””Yeah.” Helen sat on the curvy velvet chaise, made herself at home. “I’m starting to think he’sgetting serious about her.””And?””I don’t know. She’s a...

Considering our states of mind just the week before, it was hard to believe that the five of us could all be so free and happy, so uninhibited, and all dancing at once, but I...

He sighed. ” I don’t think an apology will do, Mercy. Because an apology implies that you wouldn’t do it again. And, under the circumstances, you wouldn’t do anything differently, would you?””No.

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

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...