"Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails."
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328 quotes about friendship
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friendship Quotes
"A friend is someone who accepts you no matter where you are."
"The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for."
"You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves."
"Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day."
"I'd rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society."
"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."
"Oh Julie, wouldn’t I know if you were dead? Wouldn’t I feel it happening, like a jolt of electricity to my heart?"
"Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends."
"Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person's good."
"Oh for God's sake,' Heather said, 'I wish you two would just go out, fail miserably as a couple, and get it over with."
"The foundation of adult trust is not "You will never hurt me."It is "I trust myself with whatever you do."
"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"
"When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed."
"You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend."
"Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble."
"There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends."
"Hermione was screaming again: the sound went through Harry like physical pain."
"As you walk through forestsor the meadows of your mind,Stop and talk to those you fearGood friendships you may find"
"The Puzzle Piece CharmTo A Life Filled with Friends Who Complete You"