Friendship Quotes - Page 41

Regardless of your gender, age, race, disability, colour, ethnic or national origin, how you use time each day decides who you become.

In that still and settled placeThere's nobody but youYou're where I breathe my oxygenYou're where I see my viewAnd when the world feels full of noiseMy heart knows what to doIt finds that still and settled placeAnd dances there with you

I know what it's like not to have friends. People need friends. Life's not much fun without them.

Their friendship is like a tapestry in a drawer. Today is the iron passing over the cloth, smoothing out the wrinkles, bring out the pattern that makes it unique and beautiful.

It's not a matter of whether you want happiness. We all need peace, love, and happiness. But, if you fail to nurture your spirit, by absorbing all things good and giving attention to the matters of your heart, it will be hard to obtain. It must radiate from inside of you. Then, flow outwardly penetrating everyone around you.

I had the feeling she was going to say something big. One of us had to say it. What happened to us? Where are we going? It was like this silence between us was frozen and we were both feeling our way around it. How is it that two people can need each other so absolutely and then, in moments, not even know how to be next to each other and just be quiet?

Be the type of friend you would like to have.

I certainly should have,' he agrees, smiling and thinking what an absurd and universally-accepted bit of nonsense it is, that your best friends must necessarily be the ones who best understand you. As if there weren't far too much understanding in the world already; above all, that understanding between lovers, celebrated in song and story, which is actually such torture that no two of them can bear it without frequent separations or fights.

The roots of the abundant life may seem bitter, but its fruits are sweet.

The world belongs to dreamers.

Wait, Armand, he heard behind him but kept walking, ignoring the calls. Then he remembered what Emile had meant to him and still did. Did this one bad thing wipe everything else out?That was the danger. Not that betrayals happened, not that cruel things happened, but that they could outweigh all the good. That we could forget the good and only remember the bad.But not today. Gamache stopped.

To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.

My friendship with Leonard began with me invoking the laws of love: the ones that involved the expectancy. "We are one," I decided shortly after we met. "You are me, and I am you, and it is our obligation to save each other." It took me years for me to realize this sentiment was off the mark. What we are, in fact, is a pair of solitary travelers slogging through the country of our lives, meeting up from time to time at the outer limit to give each other border reports.

Do you keep silent to keep a friendship or do you try to lend your support unconditionally, even if what they are doing goes against everything you believe in? Will it be principles over friendship, morality over love?

Tragic to kill a friend in battle by mistake when there are so many enemies to go around.

If you aren't destroying your enemies, it's because you have been conquered and assimilated, you do not even have an idea of who your enemies are. You have been brainwashed into believing you are your own enemy, and you are set against yourself. The enemy is laughing at you as you tear yourself to pieces. That is the most effective warfare an enemy can launch on his foes: confounding them.

Sometimes a friendship is more like a war.

No matter how bad you want a person, if your hearts are in two different places, you’ll have to pass and move on.

2There is no greater thing in life than that secret sense of harmony that unites us briefly with the great mysteries of others and allows us to travel alongside them for part of the way.

Oh, get off it with that. So sensitive about language. Mate, love, nest, whatever. Point is, it stinks, especially when it goes bad. I get wanting to run away.

Success isn’t entirely a numbers game, but numbers play a part.

My path gets more beautiful when you walk it with me.

I'm worried about my friend not being imagined complexly enough.

Happiness and unhappiness are contagious.

A friend is a companion for the journey,never a means to our own.What we take we take together,the joy we reap, we have sown.

He learned...never to show his anger or hatred against a stronger adversary, for fear of being crushed.

Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.

I'm an answer, Frankie. Maybe you're an answer for me, too?—Emerson

Some bad friends are so crafty in such a way that by the time their mission is reveal, they have already executed portions of it.

Our lives are defined by how we spend our time and what we choose to do daily. A life of passion is not an act but a lifestyle.

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

They were all highly respectable in their professions and, together, practically unstoppable. But most importantly, they were on her side. She couldn't feel more blessed....or anxious. She sighed. *in italics* Forgive me, Lord, for being so antsy. For worrying, I know it adds nothing to my life or any help to the situation at hand, but it's my friend's disappearance that we're investigating, and I don't know where to start. I don't want to choose the wrong lead. Please direct our investigation and help me to bring Skylar home. I'm the reason she is the way she is. Please don't let it be too late. *end italics*

...Never opt for war, no matter how simple it may seem, especially when you know that peace is achievable, even if achieving that peace entails going through a complicated and protracted process,

At the end of the day, I just want to sit with someone I love and chat about what matters and even what doesn’t.

True friendship doesn't include jealousy.

Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me.Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.

Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.

If the surprise outcome of the recent UK referendum - on whether to leave or remain in the European Union - teaches us anything, it is that supposedly worthy displays of democracy in action can actually do more harm than good. Witness a nation now more divided; an intergenerational schism in the making; both a governing and opposition party torn to shreds from the inside; infinitely more complex issues raised than satisfactory solutions provided. It begs the question 'Was it really all worth it' ?

Friends are those crazy people who keep coming back, in spite of being exposed to the real you.

I had a dream about you last night... and found out that friends are a label we love to use, but usually it's just a nice word for "acquaintance.

Friendship is more than talent. It is more than government. It is almost the equal of family. Never forget that. If you had built up a wall of friendship you wouldn't have to ask me to help. - Don Corleone

She told me later that her parents had told her to steer clear of me at school. "My mum said that nobody really knew where you came from. And that you might be dangerous." "Why didn't you listen to her?" I asked. "Because nobody knew where you came from, Simon! And you might be dangerous!" "You have the worst survival instincts." "Also, I felt sorry for you," she said. "You were holding your wand backwards.

He that lies down with dogs shall rise up with fleas.

Don't let your focus be so much on how many times you go on a date but how you can build into one another, share and carry each other's vision, complement each other, develop a deeper level of friendship; grow spiritually together and make the little things meaningful. It's beyond the 100% but more about how committed and dedicated you are daily. Love can only truly exist, when you become selfless and focus less on what is in it for you.

Create in your mind a picture of what you want and then live that vision as if it already exists.

Love is a powerful thing. More powerful, even, than money.

Opinions of others may temporary influence your decisions.But you ought to follow your own inner voice.

The greatest people in history were those who lived a life of significance and service. You can join them if you’re willing to serve.

Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.

Choose thy friends like thy books, few but choice

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

I wanted to say something to make her pain go away and make everything better. But, I realized that there was no answer. Bad things happen to good people. Rain always falls on the people who deserve nothing less than the sun.

the only way Bex would miss this would be if she were unconscious. And tied up. And in a concrete bunker. In Siberia.

It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire to be close.

Purpose is the reason something is designed, made, created, or exists.

If You Accept It... I Would Give You the Glorious Gift of Seeing Yourself As I See You.

What betrayed me? Was it my heart? Or my Soul?

Nothing gives you confidence like being a member of a small, weirdly specific, hard-to-find demographic.

Across the board at the office there was a belief, an unproved theorem, about Coinman’s blind faith in Ratiram; that if one thought Coinman could willingly sip a cup of Botulinum if Ratiram wished so, it still underestimated the reverence that dwelt in Coinman’s heart for Ratiram.

Stop inviting people who don't celebrate you to your party! It's YOUR life - you have the right to be exclusive.