Friends Quotes - Page 8

If ever I was running, it was towards you.

I really believe that there is an invisible red thread tied between him and me, and that it has stretched and tangled for years - across oceans and lifetimes. I know that it won’t break because our souls are tied.

I want you to trust yourself, baby. Love is all that matters and you’ve always known that. You’ve known, since you were a very little girl, what your life is meant to be about…

I know that your soul is on life support and that you feel lost and like you’re completely spinning out of control, but you’re finding yourself - here, tonight… even in this darkness.

Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back. I’m going to help you forgive the things that you won’t let yourself forget.

All of my best friends are dead people. Someday I've got to figure out how that happened.

And since I’m marrying into the Quartet, I have certain privileges and duties. If you’re sleeping with Laurel - ”
“I’m not sleeping with Laurel. We’re dating.”
“Right, and the two of you are just going to hold hands, admire the moon, and sing camp songs.”
“For a while. Minus the singing.

Best friends one, and now we have almost nothing to say to each other. It was interesting, how he had joined those guys and I just stayed on my own. I didn't like it or dislike it. It was just funny that things had turned out that way.

Only my books anoint me,
and a few friends,
those who reach into my veins.

Straight between them ran the pathway,
Never grew the grass upon it

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.

For me Humanity > Country > Family > Friends > (Religion = Science).
Sorry if I disappointed you, but this is what I was and I will follow my whole life.

I ain't got no money, I ain't got no car to take you on a date, I can't even buy you flowers, but together we'll be the perfect friend.

Some people will only love you as much as they can use you, their loyalty ends where the benefits cease.

What people think of you is only what they think of themselves. They look at you and see the maladies, the faults they've been carrying within themselves for the longest time. And they identified each flaw they found exactly because of this familiarity and acquaintance with their very own symptoms. How else did they recognize them in you?

When you ask God for a gift,
Be thankful if he sends,
Not diamonds, pearls or riches,
but the love of real true friends.

But while the urban tribe helps us survive, it does not help us thrive. The urban tribe may bring us soup when we are sick, but it is the people we hardly know - those who never make it into our tribe - who will swiftly and dramatically change our lives for the better.

It is always better to be surrounded by enemies that make you strong, than to be crushed between friends that make you weak.

Nothing inspires me greater than the silly behaviour and crazy ideas of my best friends...

I tried to push my body through his and completely disappear.