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Don’t be too quick to accept every direction from friends. Watch closely what your hear before your apply.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Sometimes living in the shadows is the only thing you can do to help a friend. Dont worry when the sun shines people will see you were always there to guide them through the pain.
— Royal Cromwell
Have peoples FUNDAMENTAL rights been compromised ?Answers please.
— Dr. Chukuma
Who and what you affiliate your life around will likely determine who you'll become.
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett
I never married, but if I had done so, I'm sure I'd have divorced the sod a long time ago. Life is simply too short to hang around with annoying people. That may be why I have so few friends. I'm sure my daughter concurs.
— Pansy Schneider-Horst
There were so many other people in my life.I had spent all of my time listening,learning the longings we all have in common.I never took the time to hear them in myselfand I heard them speaking to him.The desire for desire, that hopefor hope, the possibility of everythingtruly possible. I had so many friends,so many nods and conversations,so many things I’d always wantedto say to someone.
— David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility
He ever offer to walk you home?""I've never asked," Cath said quickly. "I've never asked you either.""That's true," Levi said.More quiet. More cold.The air stung Cath's throat when she finally spoke again. "So maybe you shouldn't.""Don't be ridiculous," Levi said. "That wasn't my point.
— Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
A most deplorable sight," she said, folding her arms across her chest. "Someone who has lost everything. You know, minstrel, it is interesting. Once, I thought it was impossible to lose everything, that something always remains. Always. Even in times of contempt, when naivety is capable of backfiring in the cruellest way, one cannot lose everything. But he... he lost several pints of blood, the ability to walk properly, partial use of his left hand, his witcher's sword, the woman he loves, the daughter he had gained by a miracle, his faith... Well, I thought, he must have been left with something. But I was wrong. He has nothing now. Not even a razor."Dandelion remained silent. The dryad did not move."I asked if you had a hand in this," she began a moment later. "But I think there was no need. It's obvious you had a hand in it. It's obvious you are his friend. And if someone has friends, and he loses everything in spite of that, it's obvious the friends are to blame. For what they did, or for what they didn't do.
— Andrzej Sapkowski, Czas pogardy
And if someone has friends, and he loses everything in spite of that, it's obvious the friends are to blame. For what they did, or for what they didn't do.
— Andrzej Sapkowski, Czas pogardy
...in addition to feeling sick and tired and feverish and nauseated, I also felt forgotten. And there was no easy cure for that.
— Sarah Thebarge
Friends are only friends when the fights don't matter because you understand each other better in the end.
— Cici Clawson
When life gives up on you, know that your best friend will always be there.
— TheKatAttack
Never make enemies of anyone younger or healthier than you are. They write your history.
— Jacob M. Appel, Einstein's Beach House
Usually after a good puke you feel better right away. We hugged each other and then said good-bye and went off to opposite ends of the hall to lie down in our own rooms. There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
— Sylvia Plath
And you came to Finland to build a station?""No I came here on vacation to visit a friend.""That's good," the driver said. "Vacations and friends are the two best things in life.
— Haruki Murakami
A woman will endure many wounds in her lifetime, but the betrayal of a friend is one of the most difficult to overcome.
— Tina Samples
One day we both are going to realize that our Friendship was worth the fight.
— Elena ristic
Who who whose smell in the air of her room, whose fingerprints all over her friends’ secret places.
— Tana French, The Secret Place
He asked me IF I MISSED YOU. I didn't answer and walked away keeping my eyes closed. And then shedding a tear whisper: So much
— Elena ristic
I'm friends with a guy who is friends with a former Playboy model. So I guess you could say I'm 1 degree away from 212 degrees.
— Ryan Lilly, Write like no one is reading
I find great happiness in my relationships with old friends, living mirrors that reflect histories of laughter and sorrow, triumphs and failures, births and deaths, on both sides.
— Diane Von Furstenberg
No true friendship takes account of credit and debt. It gives freely, without thought of compensation or reward.
— Una McCormack
My squad was my family, my gun was my provider and protector, and my rule was to kill or be killed. The extent of my thoughts didn’t go much beyond that. We had been fighting for over two years, and killing had become a daily activity. I felt no pity for anyone.
— Ishmael Beah
There is nothing more valuable in the writing process than a friend to hold you accountable to your own potential.
— J.R.  Young
I just could not leave the people who ever fill my heart. But if people leave, well, like today myself. That's why I'm afraid to get acquainted with a lot of people because I'm afraid of losing a lot of people too. In reality I always get acquainted with many people, how is this?
— Vea Dreamer
Doing comedy for a living is, in a lot of ways, like a pony and a camel trying to escape from the zoo. It’s a ridiculous endeavor and has a low probability of success, but most importantly, it is way easier if you’re with a friend.
— Amy Poehler
Sometimes your dearest friend whom you reveal most of your secrets to becomes so deadly and unfriendly without knowing that they were not really your friend.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Violence was a disease Gansey didn't think he could catch. But all around him, his friends were slowly infected.
— Maggie Stiefvater, Blue Lily, Lily Blue
A year of ending and beginning, a year of loss and finding...and all of you were with me through the storm. I drink your health, your wealth, your fortune for long years to come, and I hope for many more days in which we can gather like this.
— C.J. Cherryh, Fortress of Eagles
It is not until you rhyme with a person that makes you their perfect match, it is when you are satisfied with each others peculiarities, and find jewels in their loopholes.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
I should rip your eyes out,” Newt said, spraying Thomas with spit. “Teach you a lesson in stupidity.Why’d you come over here? You expected a bloody hug? Huh? A nice sit-down to talk about the goodtimes in the Glade?
— James Dashner
If you need true friend 'a cup of tea can be' it gives you company, listen without complain and makes you fresh anytime,anywhere
— Rahul Bodkhe
It's disappointing enough to know that the people we love will sometimes lie, but it is almost worse when we remember that strangers do this too, and this is why it is best not to admit our lies to strangers because it is not pleasant to learn that someone will lie even when there is little to nothing at stake.
— Catherine Lacey, Nobody Is Ever Missing
He was like a book, where each chapter picks up pace until you can't put it down. That's when you know you've made a friend - when you want to read more of his story.
— Katie Kacvinsky, Still Point
Satisfaction is not the achievement of what we want, but the awareness of what we have.
— Abhysheq Shukla
Friends are like books, you learn from every one of them.
— Debasish Mridha
Friends are the best anti-depressants; with only positive effects, no side-effects.
— Piyush Kaviraj
If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
— Moshe Dayan
Happiness held is the beginning
—  happiness shared is the blossom
why shine as bright as the sun, when you can shine as bright as the moon and let the stars shine beside you
— Shannon Dicks
They weren't making much sense; she decided they were having an argument as old and comfortable as an armchair, the kind of argument that no one ever really wins or loses, but which can go on for ever, if both parties are willing.
— Neil Gaiman, Coraline
You can always make enemies of your friends,' said Sumael. 'Making friends of your enemies is harder labor.
— Joe Abercrombie
Some of our friends put our enemies out of work.
— Jett
The true friend . . . knows that you need him in that very moment –not tomorrow, not next week. By next week you may happy, or you may be dead.
— Suzanne Massie, Journey
You'll know I love you when you're not making out with my friends.
— Sarah Enchanted
God Made Nature, Nature Need Friends.
— Rocky13
Nurture the qualities in yourself that you desire in your friends.
— Elizabeth George
You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friends nose.
— John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Fire false friends. They are in to fast-forward your fall and failure.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
They were the best sort of friends. The sort everyone hopes for but no one deserves, least of all me.
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
Remember as there are people that can help you to roll the boat of your dreams, there are also people who can drill holes under that boat to make it sink.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Every person you meet has been assigned to play a role in your story as you are assigned to play one in someone else’s. I often say that the people we come across can be one of the four kinds. They can be like pebbles, fountains, quagmire or bridges. Pebbles are those who you meet commonly and in abundance. They do not facilitate anything great but they help you continue walking on this journey of life. Everyone you cross in life without really connecting with them are pebbles. Then there are fountains – who spring water of happiness on you. They bring positivity and joy; they nourish your soul and irrigate the seeds of good thoughts. Your friends, well-wishers are all fountains. Then, on the other end of the spectrum, you have quagmires. These are the people who cause you pain. Now, even some pebbles may have caused you pain as it happens if you tread on a barbed pebble but the difference is that quagmires do that on purpose. They pull you down, induce fear and negativity by discouraging you and worrying you. They will not let you move on – that’s why they keep you bogged down in your failures. Finally, the rarest ones are the bridges – they connect you to unchartered ground that you wouldn’t have reached on your own. They unite you to your destiny. With them, your plane of consciousness expands, you see things you have not seen before; your life becomes more aware, more enlightened. Your parents, your teachers and anyone who touches your life and transcends it into something more beautiful – they are all bridges.
— Nistha Tripathi, Seven Conversations
Reading a book is a silent conversation between two friends.
— Aman Jassal, Rainbow - the shades of love
Pick a mentor. Select and be closer to someone who is there to talk to you, inspire you, and be on you, monitoring your affairs and movements for the best reasons and ensuring that your dreams become fruitful.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Human beings are very unpredictable in relations and there are no written agreements... Unlike in business transactions...
— honeya
times flies and people change..!!! thats the shitty thing about this world.
— usman ahmad
Be a good listener. With rapt attention, let every communication or conversation you have with your mentor, friends or even strangers be well understood.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Avoid the use of abusive words in communications that may switch off the attention of your mentor and your customers away.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
times flies and people change..! thats the shitty thing about this world.
— usman ahmad
How quickly people can forget you, until they want something from u" and when they are done with you, you are not even a stranger but an invisible person who doesn't even exist.
— honeya
People inspire people. That’s the more reason why mentor-ship is a critical tool for dreams accomplishment.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Learn soon...Reach moon by bus,if you late ...they will kike you out
— Mohamed Saad
Women and cars are alike. Once they start giving you problems, get rid of them.
— Anonymous
Your dreams get perfect assistant if it goes connecting with great people.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Develop accommodating values and habits. People are scared away from you when you have a value system and habitual actions that accommodate them comfortably.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
you can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friends nose.
— John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Refuse to be isolated. Your accomplishments are patronized by people who would get interest in them. When you don’t get connected, how will you get to know those people?
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Real friends were the kind where you pick up where you’d left off, whether it be a week since you’d seen each other or two years.
— Jojo Moyes, One Plus One
Watch your dreams and watch our friends. Take time and watch your friend again with sharpened eyes. Turn on your dreams again
—  watch them again
A friend is someone who will always be there for you, in good and hard times.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Your friends are a reflection of you.
— Elizabeth George
FRIENDSLooking out the window, I see you looking in.You are the sunshine,That fills my soul.
— Giorge Leedy, Uninhibited From Lust To Love
Friendship fills your life with the essence of joy and mutual understanding. And some of the best friends in life have more than two legs.
— Veronika Jensen
I think wow, I imagine this is what it's like to have friends.
— Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me
Make a new friend by picking up a book and getting to know it!
— Carmela Dutra
If they were there for you when you had nothing, they are the ones worth having now. If they only notice you because of what you have gained, are they worth having at all?
— Donna Lynn Hope
Things change and friends leave and life doesn't stop for anybody
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Okay, let’s pretend to be friends. Just two friends having dinner.” “That doesn’t work in the South. A male friend cannot have dinner with a female friend if the male friend has a wife. It just doesn’t work down here.” “Why not?” “Because men don’t have female friends. No way. I don’t know of a single man in the entire South who is married and has a female friend. I think it goes back to the Civil War.” “I think it goes back to the Dark Ages. Why are Southern women so jealous?” “Because that’s the way we’ve trained them. They learned from us. If my wife met a male friend for lunch or dinner, I’d tear his head off and file for divorce. She learned it from me.” “That makes absolutely no sense.” “Of course it doesn’t.” “Your wife has no male friends?” “None that I know of. If you learn of any, let me know.” “And you have no female friends?” “Why would I want female friends? They can’t talk about football, or duck hunting, or politics, or lawsuits, or anything that I want to talk about. They talk about kids, clothes, recipes, coupons, furniture, stuff I know nothing about. No, I don’t have any female friends. Don’t want any.” “That’s what I love about the South. The people are so tolerant.” “Thank you.
— John Grisham, A Time to Kill
Connect with people who are going where you are going. Don’t hate people. The person you may need later may be likened to the bridge you have destroyed after crossing it. You’ll need that bridge when returning.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
To attract people naturally, effortlessly, we need only follow the true prompting of our hearts.
— Wu Wei, I Ching Wisdom: More Guidance from the Book of Answers, Volume Two
Plan the number of hours each day you’ll spend on your dreams, the kind of people you’ll love to connect with, the amount of capital you’ll want to invest and the sources of help you are required to get. Make a plan.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
We're not friends, Mark," I reply sadly. "We're strangers with memories.
— Kristen Proby, Breathe with Me
I’d love to have the kind of friend who would visit me before visiting a man. Otherwise I know where I’m ranked, which is below him.
— Donna Lynn Hope
There’s the feisty bitch I know and love. Now come on, it’s time to show Jai and his prick of a dad who the head poncho is around here.” She said giggling, as I slowly let her go and took a step back.“Head poncho, don’t you mean…?” I started before she cut me off.“Shh, let’s just pretend I didn’t say that. Now shift it missy, it’s arse whooping time. Yeehaaa.” She said, making me burst out into laughter.She was right, it was time I showed them who I am.
— K.A. Cross, Life on the Rocks
Why you should fear of being abandoned by friends who 'hypocritical'. While the around you have a friend who 'sincerely'.
— Intan Hartiwan
Its really hard to recall the day you became friends with special people.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
It was pretty cool to have someone around here who didn't like the same things as everybody else.
— Elizabeth Eulberg, Better off Friends
We’re stars, you know. Different, distant, young and old, but we’re all made of the same stuff. We all shine just as bright as the next.
— Dannika Dark, Five Weeks
There comes some special times that you got to keep "impossibility thinkers" behind you and walk with those are prepared to go forward with you because that is the only option to keep you going!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
The role that people play in your life can determine how far you can go.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
You've got to be around people who encourage you, advice you and want to see you go even higher and higher than they themselves have attained!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Good Friends Don't Let You Do Stupid Things.. Alone
— Ain Eineziz
Time flows smoother when you are with people you love.
— Charlotte Eriksson
Nothing inspires me greater than the silly behaviour and crazy ideas of my best friends...
— Mykyta Isagulov
People are drawn to you because you make them feel happy
—  I understand that. But wouldn't it be nice to have people flock to you wishing for your happiness?
Someone said: friends are the thiefs of time. I shall add: of time, freedom, life; and givers of best memories, brightest moments, true feelings.
— Mykyta Isagulov
The men who are dropped in a jungle or a desert and expected video games and got mundanity and depravity and friends dying like animals.
— Dave Eggers, Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?
We choose our friends on the basis of, among other things, our conception of ourselves. That's not to say that friendship is narcissistic, it doesn't follow that we choose people 'like ourselves'; in fact we might choose people very different than ourselves. For example, if I'm not very intelligent, and I'm concerned about my lack of intelligence, I might take up with an extremely intelligent woman, precisely in order to have her intelligence, in some sense, radiate onto me.The idea is that in friendship what we do is we pick people who are going to reinforce, in some sense, our own conception of ourselves. So if I think of myself as intelligent, or I want to think of myself as intelligent, whether or not I pick a partner who is also intelligent, what is going to be essential is that it's going to be a partner who somehow expands my notion of my own intelligence, either by telling me all the time, perhaps, how intelligent I am, or maybe by always contradicting me in such a way that I can prove my intelligence with her or him.
— Robert C. Solomon, No Excuses: Existentialism and the Meaning of Life
Friends who mock your dreams are not qualified to keep dusting your door step with their footprints every time.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
I like strangers, they say the nicest things
— Sol Goode
Friends are like ants, they walk into your life unnoticed and take over your life as if its like their own. But unlike ants they leave behind million smiles, uncountable memories.
— Hanif Hassan Barbhuiya
There are no self made heroes or leaders. No matter how rugged or self assured, everyone requires a cast of players - friends, mentors, lovers, critics, villains and supporters - who call, invite, seduce, goad and encourage them to finally step into their true power. We are all heroes and leaders in some way, and we all need each other.
— Jacob Nordby
You never lose friends. You just discover who your real friends are.
— Ain Eineziz
Natalie was bored in her marriage. At first she could hardly admit it to herself. After all, they were a perfect match: similar backgrounds, same religion, similar professions (she was a school psychologist, he was a psychology professor). Didn't all the research suggest that the more you have in common, the more likely you are to succeed as a couple? Yet, those feelings of boredom were definitely surfacing. David wasn't as exciting as he used to be. He was so busy with all of his professorial assignments. Plus, he's head of the department. Where were all those easy fun days they used to have?
— Barbara Becker Holstein, Next Year in Jerusalem!: Romance, Mystery and Spiritual Awakenings
My friends are my enimies, my magi, my gods, my life...
— Mykyta Isagulov
True friendship is the hardest thing to break...
— Mykyta Isagulov
You’re impossible.” I sighed. “And really weird. No wonder Jared likes you.”“Is that a good thing or not?”I shrugged. “You two have bittersweet panty-dropping connection.”“Gross.
— Rea Lidde, Haven
We're about to hit that age when we'll be too exhausted to maintain friendships, and the days of hanging out will be long behind us.
— Gume Laurel III, Blind in Justice
Friends were hundred ,Kites were none ,This was the time when I was young.Now the kites are hundred ,Friends are none,Sitting under the flaming sun.
— Yash Gupta
I don't believe in guardian angels," Regine says seriously. "Just people who are there for you and people who aren't.
— Patrick Ness, More Than This
Because friendship is about laughing when the other person is joking to make you feel better. Even if you don’t find her joke all that funny.
— Padma Venkatraman, A Time to Dance
She was all the world’s money, and I would spend it with her, my sharpest friend who changed the tide, my only comfort from the brutal gamble of the world and the wicked ways of men.
— Daniel Handler, Adverbs
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
I don't remember where we were walking to or where we were walking from. I don't even remember the season. I just remember walking between them and feeling for the first time that I belonged somewhere.
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The rule was that they never went to the same place twice
— Mhairi McFarlane, Here's Looking at You
I think, yes, a man and a woman can be good friends, but it isn't easy for them being as no one else will suppose that that is what they are. And then there's the problem of being different sexes. I think if they are good friends, then whatever else they are - or are not - is better.
— A.S. Byatt, The Children's Book
There's some things in life that matter more that others but just remember that when ever you lose someone its the small things your gonna miss. Some things some people do might be annoying but if you ever lose them as a friend those annoying little things where the little things that made there company lovely. Never forget.
— Cheyanne Doiron
When two hearts believe, love makes things possible.
— Farzana Zahid, The Prince and The Fairy
I always thought loving someone is the greatest feeling, but I realized that loving a friend is even better. We lose people we love but we never lose true friends. True Friendship is something which happens 24/7, no special day is needed to celebrate that feeling. Anywayz happy Friendship Day !!
— KakkZ
Friends and People are like clouds and trees that we see hustling past the window of a running train.Trees are like PEOPLE.. all running.. in the opposite direction
— Clouds are like our FRIENDS.. like family.. our near and dear ones..They remain with us
Happiness is.. reading a novel with your Bestie.
— Vikrmn, 10 Alone
When darkness threatens your world, friends can be beams of sunshine if only you'll let them.
— Emily March, Nightingale Way
Friends were hundred ,Kites were none ,This was the time when I was young.Now the kites are hundred ,Friends are none,Sitting under the sun.
— Yash Gupta
When you lose your ego, you win. It really is that simple.
— Shannon L. Alder
You can be bit in the leg by a rattlesnake and seek help to heal your wound, or you can run after it and let the poison take your leg. The same is true with love.
— Shannon L. Alder
Friends are those crazy people who keep coming back, in spite of being exposed to the real you.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
Being weird adds spice to life. Having weird friends just deepens the flavor
— Jayelle Cochran
We had grown into one another somewhere along the way. We were officially a team.
— Shannon A. Thompson, Take Me Tomorrow
Each day, at the same time, Jude would return and they would be there, led by Webb, whose life could not have been more different than his. Where Webb's memories of childhood were idyllic and earthy, Jude's reeked of indifference. Webb read fantasy; Jude read realism. Webb believed a tree house was the perfect place for gaining a different perspective on the world; Jude saw it as perfect for surveillance and working out who or what was a threat to them. They argued about sport codes and song lyrics. Jude saw the rain-dirty valley; Webb saw Brigadoon. Yet, despite all this, they connected, and the nights they spent in the tree house discussing their brave new worlds and not so brave emotions made everything else in their lives insignificant. Somehow the world of Webb and Fitz and Tate and Narnie became the focus of Jude's life.
— Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road
Isn't it sad that so often it takes facing death to appreciate life and each other fully?
— Lori Earl, This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl
Just because we're friends, doesn't mean I shouldn't have to say sorry. You deserve that respect.
— Dorothy Koomson, Marshmallows for Breakfast
All my life, I have been searching for a home," the drow said quietly. "All my life, I have been wanting more than that which was offered to me, more than Menzoberranzan, more than friends who stood beside me out of personal gain. I always thought home would be a place, and indeed it is, but not in any physical sense. It is a place in here," Drizzt said, putting a hand to his heart and turning back to look upon his companions. "It is a feeling given by true friends.I know this now, and know that I am home.""But ye're off to Carradoon," Cattie-brie said softly."And so're we!" Bruenor bellowed.Drizzt smiled at them, laughed aloud. "If circumstances will not allow me to remain at home," the ranger said firmly, "then I will simply take my home with me!
— R.A. Salvatore, Passage to Dawn
I measure my friends not by being there with me when everything is going well, but embracing me when I'm criticized and when I endure tough times.
— Terraine Francois
Kafir, you have a very complicated problem with a very simple solution.
— John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
Why are you being so mean?”“Friends tell friends the truth.”“Yeah, but not to hurt. To help.
— Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls
He was cold and tired, but he ignored the cold. Around him stars shone. Some bright, some dim, the most constant things in life. Segundo smiled up at them, happy at least to be dying among friends.
— Orson Scott Card, Earth Unaware
My grin was feral, matching my savage best friend’s.
— Scarlett Dawn, King Cave
Do not ever fear your enemies, who attack you relentlessly, But do ever be afraid of the friends who flatter you habitually.[231]	- 4 (Thoughts)
— Munindra Misra, Eddies of Life
If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again; it wasprobably worth it
— Anonymous
I am an autismo, GOML M9
— Autismo GIsmo
One of these days, I would doubt the Gardeners a little too much and Zach was going to play handball with my head.
— Aron Christensen, Whisperworld
Nice work," I commented drily. "How old was that littlest one? Five? Did she put up a terrible fight?""I feared for my life," Zach said with a perfectly straight face. "You must be bored, Julia. You usually have a sharper sense of humor than that.""Eat thorns.""Well, it is about lunch time. Let's go grab a bite.
— Erica Lindquist, Whisperworld
Remember why we live. Remember warmth, remember good food. Remember friends, and song, and evenings spent around the hearth.
— Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
Who you allow into the circle of your life will make the difference in the quality of your life.
— Chris Prentiss, Zen and the Art of Happiness
I hate telling people this. I never know exactly how my voice is going to sound saying it, and I hate the stricken looks they get on their faces when they don't know what to say back.
— Kendare Blake, Anna Dressed in Blood
One of the most critical decisions made in life is choosing with whom to spend your time. For it is those close relationships that gradually mold our character until we become a reflection of the company we keep.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
Our whole lives, it was like we were always trying so hard to be perfect - for our families and our friends, for each other - when the funny thing was, we didn't have to. In the end, we were better than that.
— Brenna Yovanoff, Paper Valentine
Cool posts and kind comments make friends. Think about others online. NetworkEtiquette.net
— David Chiles
I know you're just trying to be kind. But the world isn't always kind. So sometimes you have to know what you're up against, and match it.' He held up a hand to stop the words about to be spoken; I could see the vague shape of it hovering in the blackness. 'I know it's not right to fight fire with fire. But sometimes, it's all we've got." His voice grew soft, and, in the darkness, his hand found mine, squeezed. 'Don't put your fire out, Kaitlyn. Use it, or pass the torch.
— Mackenzie Herbert, Chasing Trains
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome." -
— Samuel Johnson
I didn't tell her, because I didn't think it would help, but all people are lost, to varying degrees. I suspected that it’s only when we love others—through purpose, friendship, romance, or any combination thereof—that we become found.
— Penny Reid, Love Hacked
I gang my own gait and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties I have never lost an obstinate sense of detachment, of the need for solitude — a feeling which increases with the years.
— Albert Einstein, The World As I See It
I cannot stress enough the perils of your friends marrying or becoming court inventors. One day you are all a society of outlaws, adventurous comrades and companions who will be pushing off somewhere or other when things become tiresome; you have all the world to choose from, just by looking at the map… And then, suddenly, they’re not interested any more. They want to keep warm. They’re afraid of rain. They start collecting big things that can’t fit in a rucksack. They talk only of small things. They don’t like to make sudden decisions and do something contrariwise. Formerly they hoisted sail; now they carpenter little shelves for porcelain mugs.
— Tove Jansson, Moominpappa's Memoirs
Anyone else would have probably stayed put---or at least looked deeply uncomfortable, but Frank seemed like he was taking this in stride, like helping to reunite friends was just a normal thing he did.
— Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone
...anyone looking for friends without faults shall remain friendless. The choice is yours.
— Holly Lynn Payne, DAMASCENA - The Tale of Roses and Rumi
Hatred or disliking for someone is something that doesn't come easily but once it comes, it make sure not to leave your heart and mind and stay there either for ever or a long time.
— Shivam Singh
Our enemies leave our bodies for the crows and the wolves. Our friends bury us in secret graves.
— George R.R. Martin
It’s funny how even when you’ve lived with someone your whole life, they can still surprise you.
— Shannon Wiersbitzky, What Flowers Remember
True friends are always near, the Goddess said. Beneath the eyelids on a stormy night, around the bend in a wicked dream, hearkening to the future by the chimes of their companion’s call.
— Mary-Jean Harris, Aizai the Forgotten
When you are without friends, the next best thing is an enemy who knows you well.
— Midnight Blue, The Mirror of Maybe
One in three all friends are:Brothers in distress,equals facing rivals,free men - facing death!
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
We spent days and weeks doing nothing, calling one another ten times a day to schedule our nothing-doing.
— Tina Fey, Bossypants
The first time Enokizu met me, the first words he said were: "You look like an ape."When someone is that outrageously rude, it's hard to be angry.
— Natsuhiko Kyogoku
We started out as five people whose lives just happened to cross paths. By the end of the summer we were family
— J.C. Lucas, How I Spent My Summer Vacation
There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature
— Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
Spiritual friends help us most when they make clear that their job is to point the way, not to lead the way. And the Way to which they should point is Jesus.
— David G. Benner, Sacred Companions: The Gift of Spiritual Friendship Direction
'Didn't realize Matty was so scary,' Chris said. 'She's maybe five two and can't make it up a flight of stairs without huffing and puffing. But if I really pissed her off, she might poison my coffee.' 'Sounds like someone I'd like to meet.' 
— Kim Fielding, Buried Bones
Stop tagging everyone into your life's profile. For all you don't know, some will neither comment nor commend you; some may not like or hike with you! Evil companies corrupt good morals... Watch who goes with you and why! ...live life soooo well!!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
once you stop communicating as much as you use to, your friendship would not last. people change and people make new friends.
— Karina Celestine
Teamwork is good netiquette. All good users can work together to accomplish goals. NetworkEtiquette.net
— David Chiles
You just...you don't take crap from anyone. But not in the fake, rebellious way that most kids do it, like they got something to prove. You're real, and people respect you a lot for that.
— Christina Daley, Radiant
That’s what friends are for,” Sheba
— Ronald Frame, Havisham
German is a much more precise language than English. Americans throw the word love around for everything: I love my wife! I love all my friends! I love rock music! I love the rain! I love comic books! I love peanut butter! The word you use to describe your feelings for your wife should not be the same word you use to describe your feelings for peanut butter. In German, there are a dozen different words that describe varying degrees of liking something a lot. Germans almost never use the word love, unless they mean a deep romantic love. I have never told my parents I love them, because it would sound melodramatic, inappropriate, and almost incestuous. In German, you tell your mother that you hold her very dear, not that you are in love with her.
— Oliver Markus, Sex and Crime: Oliver's Strange Journey
I prefer solitude to companions, since there are so few men who are trustworthy, and almost none truly learned. I do not say this because I demand scholarship in all men -- although the sum total of men's learning is small enough; but I question whether we should allow anyone to waste our time. The wasting of time is an abomination.
— Girolamo Cardano
Over the years most of my peers had come to hate me—I never understood why. I guess I was just different and, like dogs, they could smell it. So I never had many friends.
— Sol Luckman, Beginner's Luke
To be a good writer, become a good listener.
— Cynthia Briggs, The Adventures of Lily and Leon: A Soppy Fish Tale
The most and best of us depend on others
—  we have to live either among friends or among enemies.
Friends are like sugar. When you have them, you'll feel happiness. When you have too many of them, you will suffer.
— Ade Santi
Friendship is not about ships—no matter how big and fancy and expensive the yacht is.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
Teen "addiction" to social media is a new extension of typical human engagement. Their use of social media as their primary site of sociality is most often a byproduct of cultural dynamics that have nothing to do with technology, including parental restrictions and highly scheduled lives. Teens turn to, and are obsessed with whichever environment allows them to connect to friends. most teens aren't addicted to social media; if anything, they're addicted to each other.
— danah boyd, It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens
Am I on your walk of shame? You did sleep with the right MacGregor, didn’t you?
— Michelle M. Pillow, Love Potions
Hold me like you hold the hand of a little kid who needs you in loneliness, bite my fingers like you bite a giggling kid in front of her friends, and play with me like you play with a kid who only has a few days to live.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
On that piece of white paper, Sam wrote, "Write about me sometime." And I typed back to her, standing right there in her bedroom. I just typed. "I will."And I felt good that those were the first two words that I ever typed on my new old typewriter that Sam gave me. We just sat there quiet for a moment, and she smiled. And I moved to the typewriter again, and I wrote something. "I love you too.
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Friends and fire didn’t go well together.
— Veronica Bane, Mara
One of the things that kept our marriage intact was community. Friends who spurred us on to finish strong together. And it’s friends who esteem marriage that will do this
—  not people who belittle it or question the value of it.
It's proper netiquette to add suggested friends to your social media accounts. NetworkEtiquette.net
— David Chiles
...we need to bear in mind that our opinion of other people, our ties with friends or family, have only the semblance of fixity and are, in fact, as eternally fluid as the sea.
— Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
Don't confuse your mentor with your buddies. Unlike the latter, your mentor isn't contented with where you're in life right now...
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
It's an unfair world, Child. Be glad you have friends.
— Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
It is so simple, yet so hard for some people to do. If you want someone out of your life then you and only “you” must tell him or her to leave. This can only be done by you. Otherwise, your silence shouts, “I am undecided.” When other people get involved it sends mixed signals. If only more people would be so bold, hearts would not linger so long.
— Shannon L. Alder
Sometimes I feel like we are the same, but sometimes, like right now, I feel the separation between our personalities like I've just run into a wall.
— Veronica Roth, Allegiant
You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
— Paul Sweeney
It's not that easy to find someone I can relate to. I'm tough to crack because I'm shy.
— Kristin Kreuk
Books are just old friends waiting to be discovered.
— Carmela Dutra
My dad once said... "Some friends are like "rubber wrappers"; they bind with you safely but get weaker when you stretch them too much". Treat your friends with care, else the elasticity of their love for you may not go lasting!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Don't let your teeth make you lose respect by permanently keeping them opened for the sake of being friendly.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Most of my friends were in band, and most of my free time during school was spent within twenty feet of the band room
— John Green, Paper Towns
Know before whom thou stands. Understand your friends for who they are, not who you wish them to be. Accept them for their flaws as well as their attributes. Turn to them for their strengths, what good stuff they can bring to your life, and forget about the rest. To ask for more only sets you up for failure.
— Fran Drescher, Enter Whining
Internet makes you think that you have millions of friends, whereas you are your own friend.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Nothing is so unpopular as positive change amongst friends. It seems when you change for the better, the people around you will be inspired to change… But only after trying their hardest to make you stop. Live your truth and don't EVER let anyone dilute your power to change!
— Steve Maraboli
It was a night where the rogue drow felt tiny, and yet grand, a part of something ancient, eternal, and as vast as his imagination and as warm as the love among these five freinds surrounding him ...
— R.A. Salvatore, Night of the Hunter
Amanda knew she was lucky to have a friend like Laura, somebody who was always there to back her up. It made it easier to be brave, easier to do the right thing.
— Annette Cascone, Grave Secrets
It struck her how sad it was that all of them had grown up on top of one another like small animals in a too-small cage, and now would simply scatter. And that would be the end of that. Everything that had happened would be sucked away into memory and vapour, as though it hadn't even happened at all.
— Lauren Oliver
Never fear to lose your three square meal per day if that will cause you to be a fan of the truth. Never fear to have a decrease in the number of your friends if you should maintain the truth…
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
You can't reach a mountain top without friends to help you get there.
— Leeland Mooring Lead Singer of the Band "leeland"
Show your netiquette, to become cyber friends with those you have met, on the internet. NetworkEtquette.net
— David Chiles
I’ve been living on the edge for so long, my friends call me Cliff
— Benny Bellamacina, Philosophical uplifting quotes and poems
I've had too much money to be able to tell who my friends are...
— J.A. Jance, Until Proven Guilty
Guilo, although a lawyer, never lied; at least not to his friends.
— Donna Leon, By Its Cover
Once people get into relationships, friends and rational thought get tossed aside.
— Philip Siegel, The Break-Up Artist
Those who think money can't buy happiness just don't know where to shop … People would be happier and healthier if they took more time off and spent it with their family and friends, yet America has long been heading in the opposite direction. People would be happier if they reduced their commuting time, even if it meant living in smaller houses, yet American trends are toward even larger houses and ever longer commutes. People would be happier and healthier if they took longer vacations even if that meant earning less, yet vacation times are shrinking in the United States, and in Europe as well. People would be happier, and in the long run and wealthier, if they bought basic functional appliances, automobiles, and wristwatches, and invested the money they saved for future consumption; yet, Americans and in particular spend almost everything they have – and sometimes more – on goods for present consumption, often paying a large premium for designer names and superfluous features.
— Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
No matter how many years passed or how much responsibility each assumed, they still managed to bicker like bitchy teenagers on a regular basis. In some way, though, each found it comforting; it reminded them how close they really were: Acquaintances were always on their best behavior, but sisters loved each other enough to say anything.
— Lauren Weisberger, Chasing Harry Winston
I carefully choose people in my life and if you are not happy with it, then its your call to be angry, broken, disappointed and lose sleep over my choice, judgement & decision... no apologies.
— Uzoma Nnadi
The people in my circle? Those who make me feel blessed
—  not stressed.
There are Atheists in foxholesAtheists in hurricanesThere are Atheists in all the rolesDenied by your refrainsAtheists are your fellow citizensPeople who love and laugh and cryAtheists are your relatives and friendsDon't insult them with a lieAtheists in many foxholes servedAnd some have had to dieGive Atheists the thanks deservedDon't dismiss them with a lieAtheists are all around youThey work, they help, they careAnd no matter what you think is trueAtheists are everywhereAnd no matter what you think is trueThey do not want your prayer
— Edwin Kagin
Of all the gifts you can get, friends and family are the best!
— Jan Britland, The Adventures of Rodger Dodger Dog Activities Book
A stupid friend can hurt you more than a smart enemy.
— Erol Ozan
I knew she was right. Of course she was right. Bex was always right. She knew me better than I knew myself. But then again, isn't that a best friend's job?
— Ally Carter, United We Spy
Don’t waste your time trying to explain yourself to people that are committed to misunderstanding you. Instead, commit your time to explaining who they are to them. When you get a person to see the positive similarities you share, it begins to restore the loss of respect between you.
— Shannon L. Alder
Neither a fake friend nor a liar can be trusted, with a secret.
— Ellen J. Barrier
Empathy and a huge imagination explain a lot of mysteries in the universe.
— Shannon L. Alder
Choose your friends carefully. They are a reflection of you.
— Jim George
It was weird the way you could be friends with someone but not really know the ugly parts of their lives. We all had our secrets, I supposed.
— Liz Czukas, Ask Again Later
You're going to come across some truly gifted people in your lifetime that seem to know all the answers. However, they lost their personal relationship with God, along the way. Love them anyways, and do everything you can to help them restore that relationship. They are fighting a war that you don't know anything about.
— Shannon L. Alder
But the thing is, I didn't make my friends happy and they didn't make me happy. All we did was get stoned out of our minds. That didn't have anything to do with happiness.
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Last Night I Sang to the Monster
Well, it is very odd of you to threaten to throw your friends out of the window, I must say," remarked Juliana.He smiled. "Not at all. It is only my friends that I would throw out of the window.""Dear me!" said Juliana, finding the male sex incomprehensible.-Chapter XIII
— Georgette Heyer, Devil's Cub
Friend of everyone is friend of none.
— Miit Anmol
Some people said beware of enemies. Some said beware of friends and some said beware of frenemies, but the most dangerous people are those that will hurt you and still play the victim.
— Uzoma Nnadi
You were spying on me?" I repeated, this time my tone was stern."Nonsense! I was making sure you were safe." He answered, fluttering his wings and landing in front of me. "That's what friends do.
— Grace Fiorre, The Nothing Spirit: Nothing is Everything
Her skin hummed with anticipation of Jaxon’s touch. She squeezed her thighs as her womb clenched. This could all go brilliantly or it could all go to hell.
— Senayda Pierre, Temptation
Some people say beware of enemies. Some say beware of friends and some say beware of frenemies, but the most dangerous people are those that will hurt you and still play the victim.
— Uzoma Nnadi
the world feel empty without a best friend .true friends no doubt are rare in this world
— nimra
If it's painful for you to criticize your friends, you're safe in doing it; if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
— Alice Duer Miller
The curve of my waist in a tight fitting summer dress can really make me new friends.
— Sara Sheridan, Ma Polinski's Pockets