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If you love something, love it completely, cherish it, say it, but most importantly, show it. Life is finite and fragile, and just because something is there one day, it might not be the next. Never take that for granted.Say what you need to say, then say a little more.Say too much. Show too much. Love too much.Everything is temporary but love.Love outlives us all.
— R. Queen, Darkchylde: The Ariel Chylde Saga
You're never going to be ready"..."Don't you see that? You have to forget about ready. If you don't, you're always going to run away
— Nina LaCour, You Know Me Well
I don't want what love is. I want what love is supposed to be.
— N'Zuri Za Austin
I believe people change and life tends them to.
— imahmedyounis
Being married is effortless
—  being happily married takes work.
If you love someone, you NEED to tell them this:"I AM YOURS!NO ONE can make me change that. I SUBMIT my heart to you. I give you MY LIFE not because I have to but because I trust you to care for it. I Love you. That shall never change. EVER!"Say it to them so they hear it. Prove it to them so they KNOW IT.Live it with them so they never doubt it.
— Levon Peter Poe
If you love someone, you NEED to tell them this:"I AM YOURS!NO ONE can make me change that. I SUBMIT my heart to you. I give you MY LIFE not because I have to but because I trust you to care for it. I Love you. That shall never change. EVER!"Say it to them so they hear it. Prove it to them so the KNOW IT.Live it with them so they never doubt it.
— Levon Peter Poe
I'll fall for you, if you fall for me"that's not how love's supposed to be;its when you seek solace in pain and love retains without complaints.
— Kashish Gurung
I will sail upon a sea of light,My guide above and below the stars.My heart for you is in flightAnd I shall come to you in your arms this night
— Levon  Peter Poe
Even so, in the midst of this complicated love, there is a holy union.
— Lorna Jane Cook, Outside Wonderland
Appreciate those who make efforts only to see you happy. They might have some limitations but that does not mean that the efforts they are making have no meanings. Dont judge them on the basis of their limitations. It really hurts...
— Sharfaraz Ahmed
The Wicked ones always thinking that reaching out for someone is nothing but a sign of weakness , so from their point of view , reaching out for someone you loved with your heart, mind & soul is a weakness ,I think it’s nothing but a trash talk , now while trying to reach out for you I’m stronger than ever , emotionally , physically & mentally and I’m not expecting in thing in return even meeting you in person . Life is weird.
— Sami Abouzid
Love is not about only about caring, but it is also about what type of feeling for caring
— Abhishek Sachdeva
Life is not everlasting only for You and Me.
— Jan Jansen Easy Branches
A hand is not enough...to never let go
— Munia Khan
the story of love and vanity are always as though as ice and heat
— Rishad sakhi
I thought I saw a memory." The nun looks at her funny as the bus turns into a position she can no longer see Elathan."What do you mean dear?" She turns to the nun."I don't know exactly, I saw a face that looked like a long lost memory trying to push its way back into my head. Something powerful, something good." Michael was right. She had pushed all the memories of her father's death deep into the back of her mind, including Elathan. She shakes it off.
— Kerr E. Lorenz
It's far too easy to forget, miss or not appreciate the tiny things a partner does for you every single day. But should you wait until it's over or they've gone to whisper (I love you) just one more time?
— James Perrin, The Occasional Swearing Of Hitched Perrin
It hurt when someone lies to you, and you know that. But you believe him instead because you love him.
— Eyden I.
Women never stalk men
—  they just research them intensely.
Denial isn't just a river in Egypt.
— C.L. Parker, Playing Dirty
No,matter how sinful we are there is a way to repent.
— Faisal Attari
The changless part in you recognizes change
— Bert McCoy
You found me under the thousand stars, shining above us at the night. You found me and you wanted me to shine for you.
— Tamara Stamenkovic
I'm going to go where my heart takes me, even if it's a messy road.
— Ha Myung-hee (writer), said by Dr. Jung YoonDo, Doctors (닥터스)
I fall for you.Effortlessly.
— Siska Astriana
Don't constantly make angry your wife. Once she throws you out of her heart, there is no appeal
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
The same tongue that tastes a cube of sugar when it is placed in a small cup of water and appreciates it is the same tongue that tells the same cube of sugar how tasteless it is when it is placed in a large volume of water.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
There is no amount of sin a loving heart cannot forgive.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Respect is love in action
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Don't love from emotion love from bottom of heart
— Jounayet Rahman
I'm always with you:-Hey,I'm with you,I'm always standing behind you ,To hold you whenever you fall.To fix your broken pieces,To hold your side &To hold your hand, even if everyone else refuse to.I'm always with you,No matter how much hard it become,& It doesn't matter, even if we had fight or some misunderstandings,Or since how long we last talked,But whenever you're in need,I'm always with you.I'm always with you,Without asking a single thing from you in return,Not even with any expectations,I'm with you because,I believe in you,I always care,I always understand things,That you fail to explain,That you feel shy to share& I understand even if you don't say.That's why I'm always with you..! ❤
— Ridhdhesh Jivawala
Can still windmills, still produce wind? Can a heart still love, when a heart no longer is?
— N'Zuri Za Austin
When a heart has set a course, let it navigate the laughter in failure and generosity in overcoming crisis. Love weaves lives and distills.
— James Emlund
Men are handicapped in love, either in giving or in receiving. They consider love as a sign of weakness
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Forgiveness is all about love. Where love abounds, there forgiveness will not tarry
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
If someone can't forgive, it's because he does not love
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
When something or someone you dearly love is snatched away from you, something of you go with it. You become emotionally amputated
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
People may say many negative things about love, but it will remain the most beautiful sensation and strongest emotion ever felt. Love opens sky, makes the sun shine at midnight, stops time, and cure all wounds. Love is paradise and love is God.
— Elie Jerome, I Dare You to Try It
Love is the strength through which a heart starts speaking,Vertiginous windstorm that opens the door to madness.An inspiration that keeps us awake whilst sleeping,Magical breeze that blows away the sadness.
— Nino Varsimashvili
The path to marital bliss is to begin each day with a kiss.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
There are no speed limits on the road to love
—  that is why some arrive instantly.
Women are the best thieves you will ever meet; they steal your heart and your last name, but never get to spend the night in jail.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Though a new cloth makes you look new, when you see the old cloths, you remember the old life
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
One of the most difficult things is to be friends with someone you love so immensely. It hurts. And the worst part is, you have to veil your pain with a smile. And every bit of that smile hurts too.
— Rohit  Sharma
Before letting someone hold your heart in their hands, make sure their hands are clean.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
After you are gone, people may forget most of what you have said and done. But they will remember that you loved them.
— Steve Goodier
Sometimes I reach the highest heights of hope, at other times I reach the deepest of despair. Sometimes I am happy, at other times I am sad. At some point I am a believer, and at some other time an unbeliever. Sometimes I love, some other times I hate. That’s what it means to be human.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
We must account for the life that we lived. A person inevitably will ask himself or herself on their deathbed, ‘what was the aim of my life,’ ‘what did I accomplish,’ ‘what did I not accomplish,’ ‘what would I alter if I could live my life all over again’? What we discover on our deathbeds is that material luxuries afford no solace. We cannot purchase, possess, or legally acquire what is pure: love, beauty, truth, goodness, and imagination.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Interest in temperament as an individual difference dimension of importance in one's behavior leads to reanalysis of both theoretical and methodological considerations relating to the construct.
— Moutasem Algharati
If there is a reason, if it makes sense, if it's making you demand something in return... Trust me, its NOT love!
— Anamika Mishra, Voicemates: A Novel
A kiss is the only object you can throw at someone without being held criminally responsible.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
We must be able to love other people or forever endure the stain of disgraceful loneliness. By recognizing and expressing empathy for other people, we come to accept our own fallibility.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
A kiss is the only thing you can throw at someone without being held criminally responsible.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Don't ignore anybody who has ignored everbody and everything for you.
— Adis Ahmedi
The best chapters in your life story are written by love.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
CAME" - Crownless Ambition Must Emerge - Genereux Philip
— Genereux Philip
Together, we overcome the drought of happiness and goodness, by seeing our glasses half full and helping fill others’ glasses back up with love.
— Emilyann Girdner
It's is not enough just to follow your heart. Use it in every breath and in each step. Meet and greet everyone with it. Put it into all you do, every dish you eat and all you create. Then your life and those of those you come into contact with will be truly rich - beyond material and transient things.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
If your heart truly stops when she looks at you, how come you are still alive?
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Light is invisible until it strikes an object. So is your love until you share it.
— Dr. Asoka Jinadasa
Love is the gateway to cosmic energy and wisdom.
— Dr. Asoka Jinadasa
Love dissolves the separation between ‘you’ and ‘me’.
— Dr. Asoka Jinadasa
You must love yourself before you can love others.
— Dr. Asoka Jinadasa
Money promises more than it delivers
—  love delivers more than it promises.
Let's fall in love and screw up our lives even more?
— Tamara Stamenkovic
Wooing a woman is like fishing
—  the quality of your catch is determined by the quality of your bait.
Never allow your short term temperament to affect your long term decisions.
— Moutasem Algharati
Love is the luckiest tenant in the world, living in the hearts of men and women rent free.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If love was a sin, God Himself would be in the hottest part of Hell.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Love is not a consequence.Love is not a choice.Love is a THIRST!
— Colleen Houck - Ren
Let our love chase all clouds awayHold my hand and feel the dayYour footsteps guide my steps all alongBeneath my skin your veins belong.
— Munia Khan
I'm not letting go of you.
— Jojo Moyes, After You
As I read you I fell in love with the holes between your words and I loved you most on the days you could not love yourself.
— Jenim Dibie
Even now, whenever I think of her, I envision a quiet Sunday morning. A gentle, clear day, just getting under way. No homework to do, just a Sunday when you could do what you wanted. She always gave me this kick-back-and-relax, Sunday-morning kind of feeling.
— Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
He lifts my chin and looks at me. “I don't want to break you, Lou-Lou.” He leans his forehead against mine. “But sometimes you have to break in order to be fixed. And if you trust me enough to fall apart, I swear...I'll put you back together again.
— Ashley Jade, Blame It on the Shame
You are a full of beautiful madness, an unreasonable reason, but you make sense in all things senseless.
— S.W. Collins
I love you for a great many reasons and despite a great many others.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
There are no stoplights on love’s road
—  that is why many accidentally fall into it.
Maybe, peace was preferable to pleasure. Maybe, peace is one’s first love.
— Anuradha Bhattacharyya, The Road Taken
I Just Wanted To Have Fun.Being In Love Wasn't My Idea.
— Ahmed Ali Anjum, Talking Pillow
Love enters your heart a spark and exists your soul a flame.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Be the kind of grown up you needed as a child.
— Jill Telford
We are still living with the ideology of compromise, not with the ideology of recognition
— Dipin Damodharan
I'm not letting go of you" - Sam
— Jojo Moyes, After You
Sometimes we have to wait for years to seek a really exceptional thing. I always wanted to give you the best thing in the world but ...
— Anuradha Bhattacharyya, The Road Taken
We are on a stroll, hand in hand, in a garden, in the moonlight and the sole purpose of such a venture is to come together in love.
— Anuradha Bhattacharyya, One Word
Romantic love morphs into a loving and eternal relationship if we understand what is love
—  why passion is such a sweet word.
Time stops when you are in love, even as you age.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Sometimes the mind silence the heart, cause it is afraid of what it might say
— Bonita Venter
Men like to borrow kisses because they know they will have to pay them back.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Romance is good, you know
— Ika Natassa, The Architecture of Love
If there is a very strong love behind you that you can lean against to it, nothing can ever shake you very strongly!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The way you look at me even if we're surrounded by crowd, is the thing makes me fall in love with you all over again..<3
— Divyen
Her Smile, The Sole Reason I want to Live !
— Kshanasurya
The way the rain falls then rises back into the clouds only to fall again reminds me of love.
— Sara Secora
Break my heart. Break it a thousand times if you like. It was only ever yours to break anyway.” "Shhh," I urged.“I'll love you until my very last breath. Every beat of my heart is yours. I don't want to die without you knowing that.”"Please don't," I choked.
— Prince Maxon, "The One" by Kiera Cass
Shine your light at all times
—  you never know who you are leading out of the dark.
I always feel that one should be loved passionately, not as a matter of course.
— Anuradha Bhattacharyya, The Road Taken
You asked if I loved her? I can't even whisper her name, my heart would burst out of my chest.
— Ahmad Ardalan, Baghdad: The Final Gathering
Just because you took longer than others, doesn’t mean you failed.
— Daniel Friday Danzor
What is the difference? Tell me what is the difference between you and me. We both kill for what we want," the man asks."We lived here first.
— Brittany Noel Bostic, The Fight
Love is the only criminal who, after stealing your heart, convinces you to celebrate her.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
When you love someone, you become immune to the hurt they cause you. You don’t love hoping to get something in return, you love because you have to. In its extreme form, it is a need to give, not a need to get.
— Faraaz Kazi, More Than Just Friends
Hate spreads in the direction it is blown, but love spreads in all directions.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Don't let your focus be so much on how many times you go on a date but how you can build into one another, share and carry each other's vision, complement each other, develop a deeper level of friendship; grow spiritually together and make the little things meaningful. It's beyond the 100% but more about how committed and dedicated you are daily. Love can only truly exist, when you become selfless and focus less on what is in it for you.
— Kemi Sogunle, Being Single: A State For The Fragile Heart: A Guide to Self-Love, Finding You and Purposeful Living
Realize your true strength when people reject you. In actual fact, they do not reject you. They only show you your real strength
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Girls like me don't get the fairytales. Because the white knights never want the dirty, damaged girls. They know there's nothing left of us that's salvageable...nothing left of us that hasn't already been taken and destroyed. And saving us? Will only ruin them.
— Ashley Jade, Blame It on the Shame
As believers our only debt is love and our only competition is to outdo each other in love.
— Dr. Kanayo
If you want to feel the sunshine, change position!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I believe in the brotherhood of mankind.
— Nurudeen Ushawu
LOVE should be the supreme fundamental right in our GLOBAL constitution -Swaran Jaggi-
— Swaran Jaggi
Love dies when the lover in us dies. It snaps when the lover in us gives up in defeat. When the cold, practical us takes over the the self-image of us a lover. When the lover in us wins, the practical us recedes and the magic takes over, and when the lover in us loses, the practical us takes over and the magic recedes and the more the lover in us dies, the less courage we have in magic until we reach a point where we even disbelieve the very notion of magic, and magic within us. Who would believe the madness of moonlight in broad daylight? Love dies from hunger for love that love is unable to feed. If I tell you that just as the cold rays of harsh sunlight shall give away to the silver cool of the moonlight beams, your disbelief can turn to magic,are you going to believe? That the stars are there even during the day, that we are the ones unable to see, would you believe?
— Srividya Srinivasan
If you blame gravity for falling in love, even God has the right to laugh at you.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
You may have some scars from the past but this will fade away in time.
— Abegail O. Salazar
I never thought that I could still love again until i met you. Will you be just a dream?
— Abegail O. Salazar
Flowers wither knowing that you exist.
— Timothy Joshua
Love treats its enemies better than hate treats its friends.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Diamonds are a girl's best friend until love introduces her to her soulmate.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
I was well aware of her ghosts. I'd met them, once or twice, during her darkness nights. "I knew you were my one when you wouldn't run," she said. How could I? Of course I stayed, when her ghosts scared my own away. What others were too afraid to see, meant everything to me.
— J. Raymond
It's not about who loves her. It's about how you love her. You have to learn the difference between what she says, and what she means. Don't just make her laugh. Try and understand why she smiles. Plenty have told her she's beautiful, but can you make her feel that way too? There's a difference, see. Compliments might cage her, while empowerment sets her free. My God, what matters to her is not just who flatters her. There's a language to her love you'll need to learn. Speak it true, and I promise you, the best of her, is what you'll earn.
— J. Raymond
She played hard to get, because she was. And it wasn't a game to her to play. She was hard to get, and hard to get. Don't you understand? She was the one that got away. Either way, if she stayed or strayed, you were better for loving her. And if she loved you back, you learned to breathe easy. Like the air in your world was lighter with her in it. We all know that one we will always look back on and wonder "What if?"....She's hard to get, harder to keep, and hardest to forget.
— J. Raymond
We wait too long to tell the people we love that they are the very reason that we exist. We assume that our wife, child, other family members, and friends understand our love and affection. We assume that people we care about understand our enigmatic idiosyncrasies and willingly accept the shrouded reasons behind our demonstrable oddities. We assume that other people sense that we struggle valiantly in our blackened landscape. We presume that other people comprehend our struggle to glean meaning amongst the ashes spewed from the absurd circumstances that we operate. Sometimes we need to stop and tell the tenderhearted persons whom we care about that we love them and explain that our awkward strangeness is not a rejection of them.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
The room was filled with a strange vibe of awkwardness that I was sure could only be dissolved by kissing him again or running away.
— E.M. Denning, Boomerang
Her whole world was in the depth of his eyes.
— Melanie Dickerson, A Spy's Devotion
We are just too blinded by the phrase, "grow old together" and learning its meaning from hopeless movies and novels that glorify undying love and unbelievable understanding. Don't you think? Reality is... Love dies. People change. And we grow old together in present. Today, tomorrow, and every day after that.It's not about eternity. It's not till death do us part.It's about today. This day. And I believe only in today.So, come! Let's grow old together today!
— Mansi Laus Deo
Through a veil of tears I watched the city get smaller and smaller. It was funny, because it sort of felt as if my heart was doing the same thing.
— E.M. Denning, Boomerang
Tonight, can we just pretend that you want me too?
— N'Zuri Za Austin
What you do for others today you have done for yourself tomorrow.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
She'll let you put her in her place, But she won't stand for anything worse than first.
— J. Raymond
Love is a form of energy, and similar to all forms of energy, it is both essential for life and dangerous. Love can enrich a person’s life or destroy a person’s world. Love is a catalytic agent of change because it makes us dare to become the best person that we can be. Falling in love for the first time drives a person to the cusp of madness, while the bitter aftermath of a love lost irrevocably alters the positive and negative aspects of a person’s character. Withstanding rejection by a lover, we discover within us those ingredients that we will need in order to find our life mate and complete ourselves as man and woman.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Tonight, can we just pretend you want me too?
— N'Zuri Za Austin
One month. Thirty days. I could bury myself in my art and forget the feel of his lips sliding across mine. I could forget the scent of his cologne, the way my body reacted when he touched me. I sighed. Thirty days suddenly seemed like an eternity.
— E.M. Denning, Boomerang
You deserve someone so much better.""You will find someone better so soon that you wont even know.""I told you, he/she wasn't good enough for you.""Oh c'mon! He/she wasn't the ONE for you.""Things will soon be fine. It's just a phase.""He/she will never find anyone better than you. Let him/her rot in hell."Gradually, you realize that all these are STANDARD statements that everybody makes to everyone. Because they don't have anything else to say.But, only your heart knows what you actually want to hear is something else. Entirely different.How you actually want and need to be handled is different. But, you don't say. Because you are scared to lose what's now left with you, and that's completely fine. To be protective of what's left. Because you can't bring back the dead!However, you also realize, that out of all these people there was only one who had the courage to show you a mirror and not be shattered by your wrath.You realize that there was only one set of arms, that were your sanctuary even though you twisted them in an outburst of anger.Not suddenly, but really slowly it settles within you, that it was only one person who knew you inside out and had the bravery to handle you at your worst.Even more slowly it settles you let that person drift away when you wanted them to run back to you and hold onto you.And so you are left with people telling you, "life moves on" and no one telling you, "Let's just pause it here!
— Mansi Laus Deo
We’ll have to go back there one day, the both of us. You can show my all your favorite places.”“Silly man,” I laughed and pulled his face down to mine. “You are my favorite place.
— E.M. Denning, Boomerang
I opened my eyes to find a fuzzy face staring into mine. I laughed and scratched Boomer’s head. “Your dog is a pervert, he watched the whole thing.
— E.M. Denning, Boomerang
Eli had shone a light into my world, he'd lit up the dark corners just by existing and even if I walked away now, I knew I'd ache for him.
— E.M. Denning, Boomerang
It’s always the ones we’re not supposed to have who are the most irresistible.
— E.M. Denning, Boomerang
Love knows the way because love is the way.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
You only need four words to spell the greatest word in the universe: L.O.V.E.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Love and marriage represent the cumulative product of several judgments. Love is an instinctive human emotion that entails deliberation and reflection. The first decision is whether to love, then whom to love, and finally whether to pledge spending a lifetime together. Love is a feeling and similar to other strong feelings it might vanish. A person does not marry every time that they fall in love. Marriage requires a person to foresee that their love will endure the mutual wants and needs of both people.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
The language of love is the only language understood but not spoken the world over.
— Amit Abraham
Love gives with its eyes closed
—  hate destroys with its eyes open.
We dream of him and in the morning we tell each other our dreams where he is living with us again, fixing salads, whistling, standing in doorways. Our mother tells us there was a time before they thought to marry when he wrote her every day, long letters with a date and a time in the upper right corner, the hour always late and the pages sometimes stained purple by wine that had spilled as he lifted the glass and drank while he wrote … Our mother says not to throw the letters out, they are all that’s left of the love she’ll never feel again.
— Yannick Murphy, Here They Come
I didn't want to see her. I was desperate to see her. I wanted to hold it together. I wanted to melt down right at her feet and scream, Look what you've done to me.
— David Levithan, How They Met, and Other Stories
Your sketch is beyond the imagination, it’s beyond thevast sea with full of emotion. A wide space is there between the two, a space of freedom, space of flexibility, though they were quite close to each other, but they are not restricted to anything. When you restrict your mind, your relation starts taking a reverse direction’. Once again, the letter reminded me of Neha’s emotion, her attachments for me…
— Deepak Ranjan, Nights of the Velvet: A Conditional Dream
Can you trust me, once again…? Won’t you feel guilty accepting me with my wrongs…?’ I whispered.‘No… never…’ she hugged me tight, I rubbed my hand on her hairs , pat on her shoulder and said sorry for making her cry.
— Deepak Ranjan, Nights of the Velvet: A Conditional Dream
Sometimes, we are simply trapped in the cage of our own emotions, unable to break those bars. It hurts!
— Tarang Sinha, We Will Meet Again...
Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .
— C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
Don’t walk in front of me… I may not followDon’t walk behind me… I may not leadWalk beside me… just be my friend
— Albert Camus
The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.
— Bob Marley
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.
— Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book
Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh!" he whispered."Yes, Piglet?""Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.
— A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner
There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.
— Linda Grayson
I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.
— Helen Keller
Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.
— Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You
Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.
— E.B. White, Charlotte's Web
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
— Aristotle
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
— Muhammad Ali
He must have known I'd want to leave you.""No, he must have known you would always want to come back.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?
— A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
— Alice Walker
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
— Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.
— P.G. Wodehouse
If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.
— S.E. Hinton
Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.
— Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons
Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.
— William Shakespeare, The Passionate Pilgrim
Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side
—  our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.
Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.
— Margaret Lee Runbeck
A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.
— Charles Lamb, The Life, Letters and Writings of Charles Lamb
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you have good friends, no matter how much life is sucking , they can make you laugh.
— P.C. Cast
It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill.
— Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble.
— Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
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.
— J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
— Oscar Wilde
This is how it works. I love the people in my life, and I do for my friends whatever they need me to do for them, again and again, as many times as is necessary. For example, in your case you always forgot who you are and how much you're loved. So what I do for you as your friend is remind you who you are and tell you how much I love you. And this isn't any kind of burden for me, because I love who you are very much. Every time I remind you, I get to remember with you, which is my pleasure.
— James Lecesne
Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.
— Dean Koontz, Fear Nothing
You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.
— Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
— Amos Bronson Alcott, Concord Days
Harry - you're a great wizard, you know." "I'm not as good as you," said Harry, very embarrassed, as she let go of him."Me!" said Hermione. "Books! And cleverness! There are more important things - friendship and bravery and - oh Harry - be careful!
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.
— George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that'swhy.
— John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
— Richard Bach
We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
— Sylvia Plath
The best mirror is an old friend.
— George Herbert
When you have a good friend that really cares for you and tries to stick in there with you, you treat them like nothing. Learn to be a good friend because one day you're gonna look up and say I lost a good friend. Learn how to be respectful to your friends, don't just start arguments with them and don't tell them the reason, always remember your friends will be there quicker than your family. Learn to remember you got great friends, don't forget that and they will always care for you no matter what. Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life.
— Marilyn Monroe
True friends are always together in spirit. (Anne Shirley)
— L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
Friendship is the bestiest thing that comes to life . Friends will always be there for you don't worry about the fakes worry about the people who had your back from the start and never treated you wrong always remember they are your real friends don't never take them as granted because one day your going to lose a good friend by the way your action's are when you see a good friend stick to that person .
— Marilyn Monroe
Once she was gone, I knelt next to Annabeth and felt her forehead. She was still burning up."You're cute when you're worried," she muttered. "Your eyebrows get all scrunched toge
— Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian
The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
— Gloria Naylor
I don’t feel very much like Pooh today," said Pooh."There there," said Piglet. "I’ll bring you tea and honey until you do.
— A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
Talk between women friends is always therapy...
— Jayne Anne Phillips
Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.
— A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
— Aristotle
We'll be there, Harry," said Ron"What?""At your Aunt and Uncle's house," said Ron, "And then we'll go with you wherever you're going.""No-" said Harry quickly; he hadn't counted on this, he had meant them to understand that he was undertaking the most dangerous journey alone. "You said it once before," said Hermione quickly, "that there was time to turn back if we wanted to. We've had time, haven't we? We're with you whatever happens.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.
— Jim Henson, Favorite Songs from Jim Henson's Muppets
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
— John Holmes
A friend to all is a friend to none.
— Aristotle
Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.
— R.J. Palacio, Wonder
No friendship is an accident. 
— O. Henry, Heart of the West
I wonder what Piglet is doing," thought Pooh. "I wish I were there to be doing it, too.
— A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching--they are your family.
— Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty
It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
— E.B. White, Charlotte's Web
The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
— Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby
the only way Bex would miss this would be if she were unconscious. And tied up. And in a concrete bunker. In Siberia.
— Ally Carter, Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
— Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
— Richard Bach
It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it....
— Nicole Richie
A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.
— Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words, they lie concealed in the silence between the words or in the depth of what is unsayable between two people.
— John O'Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.- Don Corleone
— Mario Puzo, The Godfather
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance
—  they make the latitudes and longitudes.
I have one last hope for you, which is something that I already had at 21. The friends with whom I sat on graduation day have been my friends for life. They are my children’s godparents, the people to whom I’ve been able to turn in times of trouble, friends who have been kind enough not to sue me when I’ve used their names for Death Eaters. At our graduation we were bound by enormous affection, by our shared experience of a time that could never come again, and, of course, by the knowledge that we held certain photographic evidence that would be exceptionally valuable if any of us ran for Prime Minister.
— J.K. Rowling, Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
— Albert Einstein
In prosperity our friends know us
—  in adversity we know our friends.
Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.
— Walter Dean Myers, Slam!
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
— Henry David Thoreau
It's not love or anything, but I think I like you, too.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
Are you out of your goddamn mind? You think we can take on two hundred soldiers? I know I am an extremely attractive man, J, but I am not Bruce Lee.”“Who’s Bruce Lee?”“Who’s Bruce Lee?” Kenji asks, horrified. “Oh my God. We can’t even be friends anymore.”“Why? Was he a friend of yours?”“You know what,” he says, “just stop. Just—I can’t even talk to you right now.
— Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
— Socrates
You think I'm a fool?" demanded Harry."No, I think you're like James," said Lupin, "who would have regarded it as the height of dishonor to mistrust his friends.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.
— George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows
I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
— Jim Morrison
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: First Series
Two a.m.' He swallowed, then said, "You know. The person you can call at two a.m. and, no matter what, you can count on them. Even if they're asleep or it's cold or you need to be bailed out of jail...they'll come for you. It's like, the highest level of friendship.
— Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye
Sam and Patrick looked at me. And I looked at them. And I think they knew. Not anything specific really. They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend.
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.
— Vincent van Gogh
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
— Bernard Meltzer
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod
—  my shadow does that much better.
Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.
— Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes: Adventure of the Creeping Man
True friendship is like sound health
—  the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
A faithful friend is a strong defense
—  And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.
If you care about somebody, you should want them to be happy. Even if you wind up being left out.
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.
— Lois Wyse
True friends are like diamonds – bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.
— Nicole Richie
When the two people who thus discover that they are on the same secret road are of different sexes, the friendship which arises between them will very easily pass – may pass in the first half hour – into erotic love. Indeed, unless they are physically repulsive to each other or unless one or both already loves elsewhere, it is almost certain to do so sooner or later. And conversely, erotic love may lead to Friendship between the lovers. But this, so far from obliterating the distinction between the two loves, puts it in a clearer light. If one who was first, in the deep and full sense, your Friend, is then gradually or suddenly revealed as also your lover you will certainly not want to share the Beloved’s erotic love with any third. But you will have no jealousy at all about sharing the Friendship. Nothing so enriches an erotic love as the discovery that the Beloved can deeply, truly and spontaneously enter into Friendship with the Friends you already had; to feel that not only are we two united by erotic love but we three or four or five are all travelers on the same quest, have all a common vision.
— C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.
— Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
But it does not seem that I can trust anyone,' said Frodo.Sam looked at him unhappily. 'It all depends on what you want,' put in Merry. 'You can trust us to stick with you through thick and thin--to the bitter end. And you can trust us to keep any secret of yours--closer than you keep it yourself. But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a word. We are your friends, Frodo.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
I've heard it said that people come into our lives for a reasonBringing something we must learnAnd we are led to those who help us most to grow If we let them and we help them in return.
— Stephen Schwartz
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
— Aristotle
A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you.
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
— Kahlil Gibran, The Collected Works
I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
— C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
— T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral
New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
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 hand, a silent, reflex-level affirmation that someone is near, that someone cares.
— Jim Butcher, White Night
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship is delicate as a glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks
— Waqar Ahmed
Skye kissed her forehead. "You saved my life."Katsa smiled. "You Lienid are very outward in your affection.""I'm going to name my firstborn child after you."Katsa laughed at that. "For the child's sake, wait for a girl. Or even better, wait until all your children are older and give my name to whichever is the most troublesome and obstinate."Skye burst into laughter and hugged her, and Katsa returned his embrace. And realized that quite without her intending it, her guarded heart had made another friend.
— Kristin Cashore, Graceling
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.
— Mark Twain
Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?
— Jane Austen
Was I ever crazy? Maybe. Or maybe life is… Crazy isn’t being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever. They were not perfect, but they were my friends.
— Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted
When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: First Series