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I have learned that friendship without faith is useless. Friendship entails faith in oneself that you’ll remain loyal to this bond, and faith in your friends that you will be there for them at all times. The most important of all is the biggest faith in God and in making Him the center of all our relationships.
— Kcat Yarza, KCAT CAN: I have a pen that writes
Images barraged him. Connections darted electric. Veins. Roots. Forked lightning. Tributaries. Branches. Vines snaked around trees, herds of animals, drops of water running tog
— Maggie Stiefvater, Blue Lily, Lily Blue
Morgan said, “And what have you brought me?”“Something unexpected,” Sam said pr
— T.J. Klune, The Lightning-Struck Heart
Better associations. If you associate yourself with a change maker,Your life will by all means become better.You will wink at challenges and begin to think.In times of frustrations, you will not sink.If you miss the way to a great destination,Just look for those going to that direction.Mount the shoulders of a giant believerAnd you will become a great achiever.People around you determine your speed.They will influence the growth of your seed.People you are around will decide your strengthAnd also the figure of your success’ lengthI trust you want to become a better you.It matters, what your associates plan to do.It depends, where your companions want to go.It relies on what your friends believe and know.Quit friendships that build you nothingChoose friends who bring out of you somethingOne iron sharpens another ironGo along with great people and ride on.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You
Bad people need a law to prove themselves but A good people don't need a law to prove themselves
— Prerna Banswal
Society doesn't officially recognize friendship as an institution in the way it recognizes sexual relationships, so there's no real protocol for ending one. If you've been going out, dating, or just sleeping with someone for even a month or two an you want to stop seeing him, you're expected to have a conversation with him letting him know it and giving him some bogus explanation. This conversation is seldom pleasant, and it ranges in tone from brittle adult adult discussions in coffee shops to armed standoffs in day care centers, but once it's over, you at least know your status.Because there's no formal etiquette for ending a friendship, most people do it in the laziest, most passive and painless way possible, by unilaterally dropping any effort to sustain it and letting the other person figure it out for themselves.
— Tim Kreider, We Learn Nothing
In my stubborn youth, I believed that I could stand alone, that I was strong enough to conquer my enemies with sword and with principles. Arrogance convinced me that by sheer determination, I could conquer helplessness itself. Stubborn and foolish youth, Imust admit, for when I look back on those years now, I see quite clearly that rarely did I stand alone and rarely did I have to stand alone. Always there were friends, true and dear, lending me support even when I believed I did not want it, and even when I didnot realize they were doing it.
— R.A. Salvatore, Exile
I've never bonded with anyone before. I didn't know that day on the field that standing up to him the way I did could earn his respect. He might have been an asshole homophobe but he was my asshole homophobe and probably the first real friend I ever had. I love him. Don't tell him. He wouldn't want to hear it.
— Mercy Celeste, Bootleg Diva: Confessions of a Quarterback Princess by Levi Brody
When you're a child, your best friend in the world is the kid who lives next door. It doesn't occur to you then that this is a matter of arbitrary circumstance. When you grow up you like to imagine that your friendships have a more substantial basis - common interests, like-mindedness, some genuine affinity. It's always a sad revelation that when a good friend acquires a girlfriend or a husband and disappears. You realize that,for them, your friendships was always only a matter of convenience, a fallback, and they simply don't need you anymore. There's nothing especially cynical about this; people are drawn to each other because they're giving each other something they both need, and they drift apart when they aren't getting it or don't need it anymore. Friendship have natural life spans, like love affairs or favorite songs.
— Tim Kreider, We Learn Nothing
surprise it's better than promises
— kayser U
In all my close friendships, words are the bricks I use to build bridges. To know someone I need to hear her, and to feel known, I need to be heard by her. The process of knowing and loving another person happens for me through conversation. I reveal something to help my friend understand me, she responds in a way that assures me she values my revelation, and then she adds something to help me understand her. This back-and-forth is repeated again and again as we go deeper into each other's hearts, minds, pasts, and dreams. Eventually, a friendship is built - a solid, sheltering structure that exists in the space between us - a space outside of ourselves that we can climb deep into. There is her, there is me, and then there is our friendship - this bridge we've built together.
— Glennon Doyle Melton, Love Warrior
We think our job as humans is to avoid pain, our job as parents is to protect our children from pain, and our job as friends is to fix each other's pain. Maybe that's why we all feel like failures so often - because we all have the wrong job description for love.
— Glennon Doyle Melton, Love Warrior
There is no need searching for love, it cannot be found-it happens!
— Itohan Eghide, Master of Maxims
It's love. But it's a different kind,""Doesn't make it any less love, though.
— Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here
Don’t worry, Miss Brielle. To be honest, the ones with a little bit of crazy have always been my favorite.
— C.J. Milbrandt, Into the Hills: A Zane Johns Adventure
Face it, friends. For this journey, roads are optional.
— C.J. Milbrandt, Into the Hills: A Zane Johns Adventure
Zane sighed. Jovan and Mother were just the same. “Maybe later” meant no.
— C.J. Milbrandt, Into the Hills: A Zane Johns Adventure
Don’t fall in love, it is dangerous, fall for friendship and you will find everything” Ashwin
— Shaikh Ashraf, Friendship, Love & Sacrifice
There's nothing more satisfying than being stupid with a friend.
— Fiona Wood, Six Impossible Things
I can cast a spell on your behalf regarding a relationship, your financial situation, future events, or whatever is important to you. I have the power and I use the power. I can change the course of your destiny. Contact me and I shall cast a spell for you. Tell me what it is you want and I shall go about my work. Is it someone or something you desire to have? Do you want wealth, or happiness, or a mate E.T.C.Chief OduduwaEmail: cheifoduduwa@gmail.com
— Chief Oduduwa
People say friends don't destroy each otherWhat do they know about friends?
— John Green, Paper Towns
All I ever wanted to do was go to Hogwarts and have a mate to get up to mayhem with. Just like Harry Potter. And I got his son. How crazily fortunate is that.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two
Joyful friends, mostly loyal, they hadn't abandoned their protector before the gathering storm; and despite the threatening sky, despite the shuddering earth, they remained, smiling, considerate, and as devoted to misfortune as they had been to prosperity.
— Alexandre Dumas, The Man in the Iron Mask
True friendship has no checks or balances. Once someone starts Keeping Score, the game is over.
— Kate McGahan
When someone hugs you, let them be the first to let go.
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
For friendship I have nobody else except the volcano.
— Tanmaya Guru
A disloyal friend is no friend.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
For the first time in his life Faris felt happy and for only the second time in his life he felt he’d found a friend, and that was worth being crazy for.
— Melanie Cusick-Jones, Faris and Jack
What is evil neither can nor should be loved; for it is not one’s duty to be a lover of evil or to become like what is bad; and we have said that like is dear to like. Must the friendship, then, be forthwith broken off? Or is this not so in all cases, but only when one’s friends are incurable in their wickedness? If they are capable of being reformed one should rather come to the assistance of their character or their property, inasmuch as this is better and more characteristic of friendship. But a man who breaks off such a friendship would seem to be doing nothing strange; for it was not to a man of this sort that he was a friend; when his friend changed, therefore, and he is unable to save him, he gives him up.
— Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
The heart of a woman is the best mirror you can find.
— Erin Loechner, Chasing Slow: Courage to Journey Off the Beaten Path
… it is that such of us as have loved deeply have learnt many secrets that are unknown to others; for thousands and thousands of things quiver in silence on the lips of true friendship and love, that are not to be found in the silence of other lips, to which friendship and love are unknown. …
— Maurice Maeterlinck, The Treasure of the humble
As soon as I laid eyes on him, it all came flooding back, all the reasons why I loved him, all the reasons why I hadn't been able to let him go.
— Lindsey Kelk, A Girl's Best Friend
For Abby, "friend" is a word whose sharp corners have been worn smooth by overuse. "I'm friends with the guys in IT," she might say, or "I'm meeting some friends after work."But she remembers when the word "friend" could draw blood. She and Gretchen spent hours ranking their friendships, trying to determine who was a best friend and who was an everyday friend, debating whether anyone could have two best friends at the same time, writing each other's names over and over in purple ink, buzzed on the dopamine high of belonging to someone else, having a total stranger choose you, someone who wanted to know you, another person who cared that you were alive.
— Grady Hendrix, My Best Friend's Exorcism
New York is a glorious place for clearing your head and finding inspiration. Every time you step outside, you live a dozen lives.
— Lindsey Kelk, A Girl's Best Friend
Phyllis and I pray these chaplets together; at three o'clock, every first Saturday. We are never in the same town. For months, we do not speak on the phone or email. We pray these chaplets for just a few minutes, maybe as many as sixty minutes, once a month on a Saturday afternoon. Intimacy with the elusive God is that kind of intimacy. It is the closeness of praying together, apart.
— Lauren F. Winner, Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis
One person on their own may be able to save the world. But a team of friends, all working together, have a much greater chance of succeeding…providing that no-one succumbs to evil.’ Adele Rose, Awakening.
— Adele          Rose, Awakening
I'd always liked her in a way I never had to think about, like the fact of my own hands.
— Emma Cline
But I did go back and soon I realized why. I was in love
— Lindsey Kelk, A Girl's Best Friend
Trust me, change can happen in much less time given the right circumstances. Hell, sometimes the people we're closest to change and there's nothing we can do to bring them back.
— Lexi Blake, Ruthless
[Friendship] It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified. Friendship was witnessing another's slow drip of miseries, and long bouts of boredom, and occasional triumphs. It was feeling honored by the privilege of getting to be present for another person's most dismal moments, and knowing that you could be dismal around him in return.
— Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
I don't get along with people who think they know everything and everyone.
— Cyc Jouzy
But [Patrick's] character is partly based on a boy named Mark who lived across the street from me when I was growing up ... I liked hanging out with him and was sad when he moved away after only a year in the neighborhood. I guess writing about Patrick is a way for me to spend more time with Mark.
— Linda Sue Park, Project Mulberry
For an hour we talked of Anne and that famous farm on Prince Edward Island. Thus the friendship began.
— Kathy Reichs, Bones to Ashes
Often we find a friend, not by accident, by unknown inner attraction and synchronicity.
— Debasish Mridha
Friendship is not an obligation or duty. It is a sweet responsibility.
— Debasish Mridha
Hawaii was paradise, Milan was beautiful but New York was electric.
— Lindsey Kelk, A Girl's Best Friend
There had been periods in his twenties when he would look at his friends and feel such a pure, deep contentment that he would wish the world around them would simply cease, that none of them would have to move from that moment, when everything was in equilibrium and his affection for them was perfect. But, of course, that was never to be: a beat later, and everything shifted, and the moment quietly vanished.
— Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
Once, I took the penny whistle you gave me and discovered a spotby the roaring falls where I could play as loud as I wanted. I lay in the bifurcated trunkof a low-slung birch tree. The sun peeked through applauding leaves, high overhead.
— Kristen Henderson
And no matter what closet we were thrown in, up what river we were sold for an embarrassment, or worse, traded for a bottle of gin--we’d carry on in playful stitches, friends‘til the end…which came sooner than wished.
— Kristen Henderson, Of My Maiden Smoking
A friend is a mirror. You unknowingly see yourself in him or her.
— Debasish Mridha
Hey, GreenHollyWood the mistake was mine that I added you as a friend... I thought that you are my friend... but your irony doesn't end.
— Deyth Banger
Al: Now, remind me, who's walking who down the aisle again?
— Lindsey Kelk, A Girl's Best Friend
But I couldn’t comprehend this making friends business. My friends had always made me.
— Colin MacLaughlin, Wasted Words: The College Daze
Despite the company of friendship we still have ourselves to reckon with at the end of the day.
— Darien Gee, Friendship Bread
Can two walk together, unless they are agreed?’Amos 3:3‘Does This Person Belong in your Life?’A toxic relationship is like a limb with gangrene: unless you amputate it the infection can spread and kill you. Without the courage to cut off what refuses to heal, you’ll end up losing a lot more. Your personal growth - and in some cases your healing - will only be expedited by establishing relationships with the right people. Maybe you’ve heard the story about the scorpion who asked the frog to carry him across the river because he couldn’t swim. ‘I’m afraid you’ll sting me,’ replied the frog. The scorpion smiled reassuringly and said, ‘Of course I won’t. If I did that we’d both drown!’ So the frog agreed, and the scorpion hopped on his back. Wouldn’t you know it: halfway across the river the scorpion stung him! As they began to sink the frog lamented, ‘You promised you wouldn’t sting me. Why’d you do it?’ The scorpion replied, ‘I can’t help it. It’s my nature!’ Until God changes the other person’s nature, they have the power to affect and infect you. For example, when you feel passionately about something but others don’t, it’s like trying to dance a foxtrot with someone who only knows how to waltz. You picked the wrong dance partner! Don’t get tied up with someone who doesn’t share your values and God-given goals. Some issues can be corrected through counselling, prayer, teaching, and leadership. But you can’t teach someone to care; if they don’t care they’ll pollute your environment, kill your productivity, and break your rhythm with constant complaints. That’s why it’s important to pray and ask God, ‘Does this person belong in my life?
— Patience Johnson
My heart and my soul are best of friends.And their friendship startedthe day you and I first met.
— Frederick Espiritu, One Whole Naked Me
Lately, he had been wondering if codependence was such a bad thing. He took pleasure in his friendships, and it didn’t hurt anyone, so who cared if it was codependent or not? And anyway, how was a friendship any more codependent than a relationship? Why was it admirable when you were twenty-seven but creepy when you were thirty-seven? Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified. Friendship was witnessing another’s slow drip of miseries, and long bouts of boredom, and occasional triumphs. It was feeling honoured by the privilege of getting to be present for another person’s most dismal moments, and knowing that you could be dismal around him in return.
— Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
Just as we can’t fully explain what is beautiful, so we can’t fully explain why we are friends with someone in a way that will make the grounds of our attraction obvious to another — and even to ourselves. Our efforts always leave something out. And it is what is always left out that we try to gesture toward when we say that it is not something ABOUT our friends that we love but our friends THEMSELVES. But the self that we love is always just one one step behind whatever we can actually articulate. And so we are faced with a choice between saying something that seems informative but is never enough of an explanation ('loyal, practical, unworldly and so on') and saying something else that seems like an explanation but is completely uninformative ('the individual, in the uniqueness and integrity of his or her individuality').
— Alexander Nehamas, On Friendship
I use your love as a man burns a candle, burns it away, to light his steps.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore
Your body can be in captivity, your life can be in captivity, but there is only one thing you should not allow to be in captivity; that is your soul.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Slavery of the soul is worst than the slavery of the flesh.....
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Where you are running to is not the answer, who is with you is the power.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Do you want to grow spiritually? Build better relationships? Succeed in your career? Conquer anxiety and find peace? Break a bad habit? Be healed from the emotional wounds of your past? Then meditate on, ponder, think about, practise mentally, and verbalise the Word of God. Instead of living off someone else’s spiritual insight, study God’s Word for yourself and allow the Holy Spirit to bless you with life-transforming insights. Jesus said, ‘The Spirit takes my message and tells it to you’ (John 16:15). And you’ll experience the truth of those words when you personalise the Scripture you’re reading.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Romans 12:2What is the difference between a person born with a silver spoon that later eat with the pig and someone born among the pigs without a silver spoon in his mouth and later eat with a golden spoon? One must have changed his mind. If you can renew your mind, you can change your destiny.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Your Skin is not a deprivation, your life is not a defeat, the fact that you call yourself black does not mean that your eyes, soul and brain are black try to whiten yourself. If they blackmail you, whitemail yourself.Don't allow people's opinion to pin you down. Build yourself above the standard of slavery.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
The Greek word for ‘self-control’ comes from a root word meaning ‘to grip’. It calls for getting a grip on your spending so that you don’t go into debt for things you don’t need and can’t pay for. It calls for getting a grip on your temper and not saying things you’ll later regret: ‘Better … a man who controls his temper than one who takes a city’ (Proverbs 16:32 NIV 1984 Edition). It calls for getting a grip on your desires. If Joseph had failed to say no to the repeated advances of his boss’ wife, he’d never have seen his life’s dream fulfilled and sat on the throne of Egypt. Understand this: Satan has discerned your destiny and he’s out to stop you from reaching it. So pray for self-control, and practise it on a daily basis.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
There’s an interesting story about Abraham Lincoln. During the American Civil War he signed an order transferring certain regiments, but Secretary of War Edwin Stanton refused to execute it, calling the president a fool. When Lincoln heard he replied, ‘If Stanton said I’m a fool then I must be, for he’s nearly always right, and he says what he thinks. I’ll step over and see for myself.’ He did, and when Stanton convinced him the order was in error, Lincoln quietly withdrew it. Part of Lincoln’s greatness lay in his ability to rise above pettiness, ego, and sensitivity to other people’s opinions. He wasn’t easily offended. He welcomed criticism, and in doing so demonstrated one of the strengths of a truly great person: humility. So, have you been criticised? Make it a time to learn, not lose.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
They terminate your job? Employ yourself. They retire you? Refire yourself.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
When you are busy doing something for God, God will also be busy doing something for you.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires.’Romans 6:12Self-control is one of the great keys to success in life. And since God’s Word has a lot to say about it, if you ask Him He will help you to cultivate it. What you struggled with when you were young will be different from the things you struggle with when you’re older, but you’ll face temptation in one form or another as long as you live. Self-control is one of the nine fruits of the Spirit listed in the Bible (see Galatians 5:22-23). It calls for bringing every aspect of your life under the mastery of the Holy Spirit. It’s a lifestyle characterised by discipline, not impulse.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
How do we know those who are on the Lord's side?My answer: when things happened adversarily, those who stand by God becomes Testifiers.I testify that the Lord is good, I don't know about you.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
The people that God will bless the most are those who stayed with God. You do not work with walmart and expect Microsoft to pay you.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Only in christanity that people that fall remain on the ground. When boxers are knocked down they refuse to remain on the ground or to accept a knock out. Even when they are bleeding with swollen faces, they still get up to fight but in Christianity even a push, not even a blow, Boxers gets up, wrestlers jumps up, Christians lie down.Do you know why? They do not fight a good fight, they expect to lose before they enter the ring. Every good fighter is an enduring person, they do excercise and training, they learn the act of endurance. You can't be a good Christian without an amour which is the word of God.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
We never look at people with the eye of God instead we look at them from their past, what they did wrong.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Don't be afraid of trial but don't die in your temptation.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
If God permit you to fall, He will definitely stand by you to rise.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Only trials can bring you triumph and only obstacles can bring you miracle.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
You are knocked down? Get up and move on....
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
What happens to you when you are not enough for yourself? The day that you will know that the second name of this world is trouble? The day that you will understand that salvation does not eliminate trials? The fact that you are baptised by the holy ghost does not send the devil to hell fire?Jesus didn't say kill the devil, He said cast him out. You may cast Him out from Germany, he may land in the United Kingdom. ..he is still there.Just bear in mind that heaven and earth may pass away but God and His words still remain the same.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
God is looking for a willing heart. He is searching for few like Easther....who will say if I perish I perish! God is looking for peopke like Ruth....your God shall be my God and your people shall be my people. With just 3 He can do more than with the crowd.God does not use all to win all.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
How do you feel when you want to stand and you see yourself on the floor?Sometimes what God will ask you to do will knock you down.What do you do when God says rise and He pushes you down?How do you feel when very many will become I alone? How do you feel when all the people you told your secrets sale you out?How do you feel when your confidant becomes your betrayal?How do you feel when the person you thought will push you forward told you, I know you will fail?Do you still remember that the bible says that not even a hair will pull of you without being noticed by God? Have you not heard that the steps of a righteous man are ordered by God?How do you handle disappointments?In every situation you find yourself, give God the glory.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Are you using your time to time God or you are working on God's timing? Don't ask God for the gift of Patience and you tell him you need it now. (A bit deep)
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
You may wonder how I managed to make these friends. Well, I will tell you. Making friends is actually not that hard when you drop every single one of your standards.
— Leila Sales, This Song Will Save Your Life
Thorns may hurt you, men desert you, sunlight turn to fog;but you're never friendless ever, if you have a dog.
— Douglas Malloch
Dont waste time to hate fake people, they dont deserve to be a part of your memory...chill n get boozed in the joy of having good 1s "Happy Friendship Day"..
— -sarvesh
After so many years drifting, not connected to anything, I'm finally tethered. Safe and loved, in the middle.We start senior year like kings, like nothing can ever tear us apart.We're wrong.
— Abigail Haas, Dangerous Girls
And I decided it really was true after all. You only really need two people to believe in the same thing, to feel as though you just might belong.
— Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
If I had to choose a companion to be at the return of eternal darkness with, I'd choose you.'No offence, but I'd choose someone massive and really good at magic.
— J.K Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
A friendship like theirs was hard to come by, and when such a thing is found, it is often even harder to hold on to.But, as so few come to learn, absence does indeed make the heart grow fonder.
— Ross  Turner, Marcii
I think of the note.I want to say me too.I want to say I know.I want to say I can read the gaps in your sentences. I can read the space between your letters. I know your language. It’s my language too.I want to say that.
— Maria Dahvana Headley, Magonia
With determination, it is possible to block out the negative things and enjoy the positive ones, despite the cons. Most importantly, it is possible to dance through everything pernicious.
— Sarah Todd Hammer, Determination
Among the worst things about growing old is the loss of those irreplaceable friends who added richness and depth to your life.
— Pat Conroy, A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
You were the best part of my life; I do not regret making friends with you…I will wait for you till the end of my life…This time I won’t force you to come near me, take yourown time.If you feel you can return me my best friend, just typeme a small – Hi… or GM or GN… I won’t force you totype the complete words, as I don’t want to waste your timefor me…I Love You (As a best friend).Missing you very badly…Waiting for my Sid…
— Deepak Ranjan, Nights of the Velvet: A Conditional Dream
Herman Melville came to see me at the Consulate, looking much as he used to do (a little paler, and perhaps a little sadder), in a rough outside coat, and with his characteristic gravity and reserve of manner.... [W]e soon found ourselves on pretty much our former terms of sociability and confidence. Melville has not been well, of late; ... and no doubt has suffered from too constant literary occupation, pursued without much success, latterly; and his writings, for a long while past, have indicated a morbid state of mind.... Melville, as he always does, began to reason of Providence and futurity, and of everything that lies beyond human ken, and informed me that he had "pretty much made up his mind to be annihilated"; but still he does not seem to rest in that anticipation; and, I think, will never rest until he gets hold of a definite belief. It is strange how he persists -- and has persisted ever since I knew him, and probably long before -- in wondering to-and-fro over these deserts, as dismal and monotonous as the sand hills amid which we were sitting. He can neither believe, nor be comfortable in his unbelief; and he is too honest and courageous not to try to do one or the other. If he were a religious man, he would be one of the most truly religious and reverential; he has a very high and noble nature, and better worth immortality than most of us.[after what would be their last meeting]
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Jackie.''Mm.''Thank you for keeping me company in my nightmare.'Jackie grinned at her,'Nah, it's our nightmare now.
— joseph fink, jeffrey cranor
I can’t pray or weigh my words right; doomsday is here my friend, but you’re immune. We sufferfor you. I’m weaving crowns of sonnets, dreads;a souvenir so you’ll never forget your friends.
— Jalina Mhyana, The Wishing Bones
Am I a friend or a prospect? Imagine how much kinder life would be if people put as much effort into befriending others instead of trying to sell them something.
— Donna Lynn Hope
I'll put it on my table where I keep my drawings," Hassan said.His saying that made me kind of sad. Sad for who Hassan was, where he lived. For how he'd accepted the fact that he'd grow old in that mud shack in the yard, the way his father had.
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
The stares were annoying, but I knew they didn’t mean any harm. So, every morning, smiling at them became part of my routine, too.
— Sarah Todd Hammer, Determination
There is now a distance,pressing quite persistent,May be only inches apart,but as if an artery is blocked.There now seem some secrets,a word which was earlier so needless.May be they now laugh so less,and even in summers,the air between them feels dense.Who connects? Who neglects?Barely matters when you are no more friends.
— Jasleen Kaur Gumber
One did not fully exist without the other.
— Kate Mildenhall, Skylarking
A spiritual connection with someone lasts forever, even when physical presence fades.
— Danielle Barone
We all used to try so hard to fit in. We wanted to look exactly alike, do all the same things, practically be the same person, but when we weren't looking that all changed....what the summer actually brought was independence from each other.
— Now and Then
It is easy to make friends.But, it is tough to honor that friendship with'em.If you find those people,hold on to them.If you don't,move on.
— Sachin Panwar
A Company of a good friend is worth thousand people around you or else you are Gathering a Crowd
— irrfan ishaq
I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me so much of themselves, helped me find so much of me, and always been there to support when I needed it most. #BandOfBrothers.
— Ted Rubin
Look at your own behaviors and ask yourself, “Would I want to be my friend???
— Ted Rubin
REAL trumps PERFECT... because REAL creates TRUST.
— Ted Rubin
Listen for “Moments” — and Make it Personal
— Ted Rubin
It's about "Moments," not Milestones.
— Ted Rubin
If you are only focused on the Money... You risk completely overlooking the People.
— Ted Rubin
He doesn’t understand why Harry is doing this to him, why Harry is trying to pull him apart. He doesn’t understand how Harry has seen past his carefully crafted display. Louis has got smoke and mirrors down to a science, he knows how to deflect and he knows how to act and he’s managed to keep people at arms length so nobody would ever question how the magic works. He’s got his relationship with Zayn and Liam down to an art, how to give enough so that he doesn’t have to lie to them, but able to keep them from knowing how close he is to the edge. Yet here is Harry, ready to unravel everything Louis has sewn together.
— tothemoonmydear, Fading
Where a man cannot fitly play his own part; if he have not a friend, he may quit the stage.
— Francis Bacon, The Essays
I envy the tireless intimacy of women’s friendship, its lastingness, and its unbendable strength.
— Pat Conroy, A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
Another thing about Oscar is that he wasn’t afraid of anyone. And he always made up his own mind, no matter what other people said. They’re two of the best things I remember about him now.He wasn’t just my friend. He was kind of magic. I can’t really explain it better than that. He was honest and he was decent and he was always cheerful. And evem though his brother Stevie had to use a wheelchair, it wasn’t a problem the way people usually think it is, because Oscar always made sure that every door was opened and every stairway had a ramp, and every train station had the right access so he could get it. He used to say that if the world was designed properly, the whole population would be flying around the place in wheelchairs. And when he said that, Stevie used to laugh.
— Sarah Moore Fitzgerald, The Apple Tart of Hope
Something good happens to you, and you let off a different energy that attracts other good things.
— Candace Bushnell, Killing Monica
People are always telling women to lose weight, and then when they do, other women attack them for it.
— Candace Bushnell, Killing Monica
Oscar had a straightforward, dimpled, happy smile. It was one of the hundreds of great things about him.And after that we were best friends. It had been as simple and inevitable as the striking of a match.
— Sarah Moore Fitzgerald, The Apple Tart of Hope
What am I going to do without you, Oscar?’‘You’ll be fine’, I answered. ‘You could probably do some time away from me. I’m a pain in the neck. You’re always saying so.’‘You’re right,’ she said. ‘It’ll be great to have you out of my hair for a few months.’‘Oscar, seriously though.’‘What?’‘Stay in touch, will you? Please?’‘Of course I will.’‘Promise?’‘Yes, I promise.’‘Good, because I’m really going to miss you.
— Sarah Moore Fitzgerald, The Apple Tart of Hope
Sometimes a friendship is more like a war.
— Kelly Link, Get in Trouble
Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible faith is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that "something" is a fake bathroom break.
— Veronica Roth, Allegiant
Such delicacies are relationships.
— Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
If a man can tell if he's been successful in his life by having great friends, then I have been very successful.
— Johnny Ramone
It's by stooping that fingers create a fist, and by standing tall that they give us open palms.
— Agona Apell, The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning Men from Rot to Rock
Brod was a brilliant intellectual with exceptional energy; a generous man willing to do battle for others; his attachment to Kafka was warm and disinterested. The only problem was his artistic orientation: a man of ideas, he knew nothing of the passion for form; his novels (he wrote twenty of them) are sadly conventional; and above all: he understood nothing at all about modern art.Why, despite all this, was Kafka so fond of him? What about you-do you stop being fond of your best friend because he has a compulsion to write bad verse?
— Milan Kundera, Testaments Betrayed: An Essay in Nine Parts
Damn! What did Ansermet, that most faithful friend, know about Stravinsky's poverty of heart? What did he, that most devoted friend, know about Stravinsky's capacity to love? And where did he get his utter certainty that the heart is ethically superior to the brain? Are not vile acts committed as often with the heart's help as without it? Can't fanatics, with their bloody hands, boast of a high degree of "affective activity"? Will we ever be done with this imbecile sentimental Inquisition, the heart's Reign of Terror?
— Milan Kundera, Testaments Betrayed: An Essay in Nine Parts
If everyone in New York took sides over these petty, insignificant arguments, no one would have any friends at all.
— Candace Bushnell, One Fifth Avenue
Friends? Your friends? If you lock them together in a room with no food for a week…Then you could see what it is, friends! …
— Art Spiegelman, Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
Fake people will insult you infront of the whole world but those who are true to you will insult you more but in private.
— Shizra
The most reliable friend you have is your shadow.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
I just came from Bunker Hill,’ I told Sam. ‘Hel offered me a reunion with my mother.’I managed to tell her the story.Samirah reached out as if to touch my arm, then apparently changed her mind. ‘I’m so sorry, Magnus. But Hel lies. You can’t trust her. She’s just like my father, only colder. You made the right choice.’‘Yeah … still. You ever do the right thing, and you know it’s the right thing, but it leaves you feeling horrible?’‘You’ve just described most days of my life.’ Sam pulled up her hood. ‘When I became a Valkyrie … I’m still not sure why I fought that frost giant. The kids at Malcolm X were terrible to me. The usual garbage: they asked me if I was a terrorist. They yanked off my hijab. They slipped disgusting notes and pictures into my locker. When that giant attacked … I could’ve pretended to be just another mortal and got myself to safety. But I didn’t even think about running away. Why did I risk my life for those kids?’I smiled.‘What?’ she demanded.‘Somebody once told me that a hero’s bravery has to be unplanned – a genuine response to a crisis. It has to come from the heart, without any thought of reward.’Sam huffed. ‘That somebody sounds pretty smug.’‘Maybe you didn’t need to come here,’ I decided. ‘Maybe I did. To understand why we’re a good team.
— Rick Riordan, The Sword of Summer
And then to my surprise in one of them I discovered the original manuscript of On Friendship. Puzzled, I unrolled it, thinking I must have brought it with me by mistake. But when I saw that Cicero had copied out at the top of the roll in his shaking hand a quotation from the text, on the importance of having friends, I realised it was a parting gift: If a man ascended into heaven and gazed upon the whole workings of the universe and the beauty of the stars, the marvellous sight would give him no joy if he had to keep it to himself. And yet, if only there had been someone to describe the spectacle to, it would have filled him with delight. Nature abhors solitude.
— Robert Harris, Dictator
He's a good old sort. If only he weren't plumb crazy!
— Michael Ende, The Neverending Story
Grains of sand will only flow with the winds, Kenton, never against them.
— Brandon Sanderson, White Sand Volume 1
Friendship's like a relationship between friends.
— kevin mcpherson eckhoff, channelling voices
Your judgments about another person say more about your own character than the character of the person you are pointing a finger at.This is the key and one of the most fundamental insights about the ‘red flags’ that we often dismiss regarding the people in our lives. If someone complains a lot to you about other people, guess what? That is part of their current character. And, as quickly as the tide changes, you can just as easily become the person they target and criticize, point fingers at, and negatively judge. Forever and always, until vibrations are raised, this will be the cycle of the relationship. So, it’s your choice to continue to engage in the cycle with them, or to move on.There are plenty of people who do not criticize, point fingers, or judge. THIS is the kind of character we want to foster within ourselves. THIS is the character of the kind of people we DO want to develop close relationships with.
— Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace
Unhappy people can be very dangerous, don't forget that.
— S. E. Lynes
What you mean to me is something out of the ordinary, cause even a whole of a dictionary won't be able to describe it!
— Andy Flynn
Everyone just outgrew me. Now I think I'm just haunting them.
— John Corey Whaley, Noggin
We dropped our hands, both embarrassed by the sincerity of the moment. But I was learning, Sometimes you had to put it all out there, no matter how hard it felt to do so. When the people in your life were worth it, so was the risk.
— Gwenda Bond, Double Down
Though such authority and respect shouldn't be handed to all and sundry, have in caution's innermost room a confidant, a faithful mirror, whose correction you value when disillusionment is necessary.
— Baltasar Gracián
I felt good and all washed clean of sin for the first time I had ever felt so in my life, and I knowed I could pray now. But I didn't do it straight off, but laid the paper down and set there thinking--thinking how good it was all this happened so, and how near I come to being lost and going to hell. And went on thinking. And got to thinking over our trip down the river; and I see Jim before me all the time: in the day and in the night-time, sometimes moonlight, sometimes storms, and we a-floating along, talking and singing and laughing. But somehow I couldn't seem to strike no places to harden me against him, but only the other kind. I'd see him standing my watch on top of his'n, 'stead of calling me, so I could go on sleeping; and see him how glad he was when I come back out of the fog; and when I come to him again in the swamp, up there where the feud was; and such-like times; and would always call me honey, and pet me and do everything he could think of for me, and how good he always was; and at last I struck the time I saved him by telling the men we had small-pox aboard, and he was so grateful, and said I was the best friend old Jim ever had in the world, and the ONLY one he's got now; and then I happened to look around and see that paper.It was a close place. I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself:"All right, then, I'll GO to hell"--and tore it up.
— Mark Twain
I think people get lost in becoming someone other then themselves when they spend too much time in the presence of those who don't bring out the best in them.
— Nikki Rowe
I threw my 20th birthday party at Brown, and I didn’t even have to say to anyone not to put pictures on Facebook. Not a single picture went up. That was when I knew I’d found a solid group of friends, and I felt like I belonged.
— Emma Watson
Endeavor to live a simple life, but filled with complex love.
— Auliq-Ice
Why you like photography so much? Because it's just the camera and me showing everyone else what we can see. It's telling stories.
— Lindsey Kelk, What a Girl Wants
When you meet someone, and you find that they are prejudiced against your kind, it might be your chance, not to confirm, but to be the one to finally change their mind.
— Criss Jami
This hand shall never more come near thee with such friendship
— William Shakespeare, The Two Noble Kinsmen
Most people are willing to promise you a lot. A few are those who can promise you a little, just as much as they can.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
Don't search for people, the right persons will come to you at the right time
— Akshay Vijayan
For you, a thousand times over!
— Khaled Hosseini
The benefit of being friends will vastly outweigh the benefit of being enemies.
— R.A.Delmonico
So much for being a good friend was knowing when to keep your mouth shut.
— Emma Straub, The Vacationers
There are people in my life who count more than playing soccer in Serie A
— Mirella Muffarotto, Soccer Sweetheart
Those who love you the most, let yo bend your notes
— Paresh Shah
Those who love you the most, let you bend your notes
— Paresh Shah
Am I not fit to this world or people around of me not fit for me, arguable...without proper answer. Everyone had their logic, explanations, clarifications, examples but here also not solution. But the person himself/herself at least can figure out what's right and what's wrong. Then also there is no solution until he or she admitted that he or she is wrong. Admitting own mistake is hard to find because of so called pride. It's life you have to face everything here without solution, and the last thought is, all the problems solution will be after death only. It's the fact of the life.
— Nutan Bajracharya
The most valuable currency in life is compassion.
— Auliq-Ice
It's interesting how much you can tell about someone from their friends.
— Lindsey Kelk, What a Girl Wants
People come and go in this lifetime. Some merely pass us by. Some stay with us for a little while. Some leave as quickly as they come. However, when real friends come, they stay and never leave.
— Kcat Yarza, KCAT CAN: I have a pen that writes
Just when you thought you knew everything about someone, they had to go one better.
— Lindsey Kelk, What a Girl Wants
I’m thinking it would be very easy to love you. And easier to call you my friend.
— Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury
I know what love is and it is friendship, set afire.Love is easy. Love is chemistry—a science lab. Love is as simple as connecting this together with that. Her brilliant eyes and my heated heart.But this is not love.Not yet.Genuine love is friendship. Genuine love resides only in the present moment. Genuine love is everyday. Genuine love feels no need to entertain the space away. Genuine love is up, genuine love is down and yet genuine love never wavers.Love is something else entire: it is caring. It is arguing, but with curiosity—it is giving an inch when the other is certainly wrong—it is teasing, it is empathy, it is respect, it is admiration each morning.
— Waylon H. Lewis, Things I Would Like To Do With You
The alchemy that is friendship mixed with attraction is important. The alchemy that is two hearts, two minds, two lives, two particular laughs in silly melody is important.And, it is yet unknown, as you are, to me.
— Waylon H. Lewis, Things I Would Like To Do With You
It's because we live in a beauty-obsessed society where the most important thing a woman can do is make herself attractive to men.
— Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies
She said once that time is nothing to me but a series of bookmarks that I use to jump back and forth through the text of my life, returning again and again to the events that mark me in the eyes of my more astute colleagues, as bearing all the characteristics of the classic melancholic.
— Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island
You cannot, ever, give up on a friend who is close to giving up on themselves
— Jodi Ann Bickley, One Million Lovely Letters: When Life is Looking Hopeless, One Inspirational Letter Can Change Your Life Forever
You are not my dream girl.You are this earth. You are not a fantasy: you are my love. And love is friendship lit by a wooden match with a white tip on its red tip. I am your match, and you are mine.
— Waylon H. Lewis, Things I Would Like To Do With You
It was frightening to realize how fast things could go wrong.
— Danielle Steel, Friends Forever
It was the cruelest of destiny’s tricks, the death of a young person.
— Danielle Steel, Friends Forever
After my friend's accident I take care of her. It is always taking care, but it is difficult, because at times to take care of her is also to cause her pain.
— Maggie Nelson, Bluets