Friendship Quotes - Page 17

People will walk in and walk out of your life, but the one whose footstep made a long lasting impression is the one you should never allow to walk out.

But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people-first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy.

One has only to set a loved human being against the fact that we are all in peril all the time to get back a sense of proportion. What does anything matter compared to the reality of love and its span, so brief at best, maintained against such odds?

...there remained a strange formality between them, and her pleasure in his presence felt too much like missing him had felt during the last week.

Close cycles. Not because of pride or arrogance, but because that no longer fits your life

I no longer have the energy for meaningless friendships, forced interactions or unnecessary conversations. If we don’t vibrate on the same frequency there’s just no reason for us to waste our time. I’d rather have no one and wait for substance than to not feel someone and fake the funk.

Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.

Then, whenever I feel the sun on my face, I will think of you, " I told him. "You will always be with me, Bill. Because of all I have felt for you, and all I have learned from you.

But what are loyalty and caring really worth?"
"To me? Everything.

I am getting nowhere with you and I can't let you go and I cant get through.

Evaluating the benefits and drawbacks of any relationship is your responsibility. You do not have to passively accept what is brought to you. You can choose.

Yes,” said Mamma, “this is the worst of life, that love does not give us common sense but is a sure way of losing it. We love people, and we say that we are going to do more for them than friendship, but it makes such fools of us that we do far less, indeed sometimes what we do could be mistaken for the work of hatred.

Strong relationships come from well-bonded friendships.

This is what we do. Not so much argue as joust, in jest. We can't stop pushing and pulling the taffy of words and concepts.

Strangers will show you the way

But a true friend will escort you,

to your destination.

1st November, 2006

When we do the hard, intimate work of friendship, we bring a little more of the divine into daily life.

Build me up and I with you. For we are more one than two.

A friend is someone who protects you in your absence and appreciates you in your presence

Nineteen twentieths of [mankind is] opaque and unenlightened. Intimacy with most people will make you acquainted with vices and errors and follies enough to make you despise them.

We are wasting our youth holding cold devices while we should be holding one another’s warm hands.