Quotes Tagged "friendship"

Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.

He looked at his friend, perhaps for the last time, and said what he had always known, from the moment they’d met, when he’d understood that the prince was his brother in soul. “I love you.

I suppose it’s not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do — to feel, discuss feelings. So that’s what I’m giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff…what good are social norms, really? I think all they do is project a limited and harmful image of people. It thus impedes a broader social acceptance of what someone, or a group of people, might actually be like.

Everything about her has to do with me.

You know what the secret is? It's so simple. We love one another. We're nice to one another. Do you know how rare that is? - Carmen

People will walk in and walk out of your life, but the one whose footstep made a long lasting impression is the one you should never allow to walk out.

How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.

صديقي.. الذي تحوّلَ إلى عدوِّي فجأة.. بلا سببٍ تحوَّل! رغم أني لم أكُن سببًا في عداوته! ولا أعرفُ ما الدّاعي من غضبهِ وتحوّله.. إنك عالقٌ في رأسي على شكلكَ القَديم.. شكلكَ وأنت صَديقي!

the world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by.

Friends ask you questions; enemies question you.

And he knew that at that moment, they understood each other perfectly, and when he told her what he was going to do now, she would not say ‘be careful’ or ‘don’t do it’, but she would accept his decision because she would not have expected anything less of him.

Nothing is more curious and awkward than the relationship of two people who only know each other with their eyes — who meet and observe each other daily, even hourly and who keep up the impression of disinterest either because of morals or because of a mental abnormality. Between them there is listlessness and pent-up curiosity, the hysteria of an unsatisfied, unnaturally suppressed need for communion and also a kind of tense respect. Because man loves and honors man as long as he is not able to judge him, and desire is a product of lacking knowledge.

Soul connections are not often found and are worth every bit of fight left in you to keep.

There are very few friends that will lie down with you on empty streets in the middle of the night, without a word. No questions, no asking why, just quietly lay there with you, observing the stars, until you're ready to get back up on your feet again and walk the last bit home, softly holding your hand as a quiet way of saying “I'm here”. It was a beautiful night.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.

Nothing of real worth can ever be bought. Love, friendship, honour, valour, respect. All these things have to be earned.

True friends will always push you towards the great possibilities of your future, false friends will always chain you to the mistakes in your past.

If you claim to be a real friend then be real in your soul. If you claim to be fake then be an enemy instead.