#friendship

"Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition."

"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."

"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over."

"Every friendship travels at sometime through the black valley of despair. This tests every aspect of your affection. You lose the attraction and the magic. Your sense of each other darkens and your presence is sore. If you can come through this time, it can purify with your love, and falsity and need will fall away. It will bring you onto new ground where affection can grow again."

"I don't want to hurt you or anybody so please forget about me. Just try. Find yourself a better friend."

"Celebrate the people in your life who are there because they love you for no other reason than because you are YOU."

"Because introverts are typically good listeners and, at least, have the appearance of calmness, we are attractive to emotionally needy people. Introverts, gratified that other people are initiating with them, can easily get caught in these exhausting and unsatisfying relationships."

"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."

"don't you think between here and now we will see each other once or twice?"

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

"He brought out the worst in me, and was the best thing that ever happened to me."

"People leave imprints on our lives, shaping who we become in much the same way that a symbol is pressed into the page of a book to tell you who it comes from. Dogs, however, leave paw prints on our lives and our souls, which are as unique as fingerprints in every way."

"When you loathe yourself, a true friend will respect your honesty. And if you’ve been fortunate in life, he will probably share your opinion."

"There used to be days that I thought I was okay, or at least that I was going to be. We'd be hanging out somewhere and everything would just fit right and I would think 'it will be okay if it can just be like this forever' but of course nothing can ever stay just how it is forever."

"Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success."

"...Who could refrain, That had a heart to love, and in that heart Courage to make love known?"

"Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing."

"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."

"The most intriguing people you will encounter in this life are the people who had insights about you, that you didn't know about yourself."

"The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?"