Friendship Quotes
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"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"
"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever."
"When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable."
"You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together."
"Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."
"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival."
"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field.I'll meet you there.When the soul lies down in that grassthe world is too full to talk about."
"I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff."
"How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em."
"Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies."
"He must have known I'd want to leave you.""No, he must have known you would always want to come back."
"Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with."
"There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature."
"Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment."
"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"
"Why is it,"he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?""Because I like you,"she said, "and I don't want anything from you."
"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."
"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."
"The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them"
"The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you."
"Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected."
"There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them."
"The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families."
"A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship."
"It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill."
"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."
"I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam."
"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."
"Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive."
"When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed."
"I want to grow a flower for every time someone tells me “F*** you.” Then I’ll go back to that person and pin the flower on their lapel in a gesture of friendship. And while they are looking down on it in astonishment, I’ll bunch up my knuckles and punch them in the face."
"People have forgotten this truth,"the fox said. "But you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose."
"There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends."
"Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still."
"Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel."
"It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire to be close."
"Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another?We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?"
"To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect."
"We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust."
"I may not always be with you But when we're far apartRemember you will be with meRight inside my heart"
"When a girl says she wants to be friends with benefits, I always ask if that includes dental insurance."
"When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier."
"It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business."
"A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends."
"She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order."
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