#friendship

"At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel."

"We can be friends. We can be anything we want to be."

"If you wish to befriend someone, look for a person who loves first God then themselves. If they love God, they will be able to love their neighbor, too."

"Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love."

"There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends."

"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."

"Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is, because you know people who have similar experiences."

"I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed."

"I may not always be with you But when we're far apartRemember you will be with meRight inside my heart"

"I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work."

"A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease."

"Never worry alone. When anxiety grabs my mind, it is self-perpetuating. Worrisome thoughts reproduce faster than rabbits, so one of the most powerful ways to stop the spiral of worry is simply to disclose my worry to a friend... The simple act of reassurance from another human being [becomes] a tool of the Spirit to cast out fear -- because peace and fear are both contagious."

"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."

"Happy is the soul that has a friend. Happier is the soul that trusts in the truth of the heart of a friend. Happiest is the soul that knows the solemnity of friendship and honours its laws."

"When a girl says she wants to be friends with benefits, I always ask if that includes dental insurance."

"Colpo di fulmine. The thunderbolt, as Italians call it. When love strikes someone like lightning, so powerful and intense it can’t be denied. It’s beautiful and messy,cracking a chest open and spilling their soul out for the world to see. It turns a person inside out, and there’s no going back from it. Once the thunderbolt hits, your life isirrevocably changed."

"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."

"The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden."

"Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person's good."