friendship

"Men and women can absolutely be friends, and that's what we need to be. Part of the problem is that we aren't friends enough. Our relationships are negotiations, and that is not friendship."

"Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things."

"Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit."

"You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are."

"When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all the other things a mom is), and I was always grateful for that because I knew she was someone I could talk to and joke with, and argue with and that nothing would ever harm that friendship."

"I think people just like seeing friendship. I think people like seeing people who just drive each other up the wall, but at same time, can't live without each other."

"The ideal of all Kosovo is membership in the E.U. and a permanent friendship with the United States. I believe and I am convinced our dreams will come true."

"The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknowledged by our people."

"We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence."

"Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship."

"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit."

"Life is all about the friendship and the love and the music. It sounds silly, but it is. I want to have that experience as much as I can as an adult, not as a kid doing something that people are telling her she has to do. If anyone gets in my way, I'm going to get them out of my way."

"I love the fact that so many of my readers are intelligent, exceptional, accomplished people with an open-minded love of diversity. But even more than that, I love it when my readers find lasting friendship with others of my readers - knowing that they met through their mutual affection for my books and characters makes me happy!"

"People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within."

"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."

"Any friendship or relationship is about a language."

"Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day."

"I think for a lot of people, friendship is a relationship that gets devalued once they move on to what people consider to be more important relationships: once you find a partner or when you have kids."

"Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions."

"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."