Quotes on “friendship”

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

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

It was just that there was something newly powerful about this assembled family in the car. They were all growing up and into each other like trees striving together for the sun.

We need to remember what's important in life: friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work. Doesn't matter, but work is third.

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.

To make real friends you have to put yourself out there. Sometimes people will let you down, but you can't let that stop you. If you get hurt, you just pick yourself up, dust off your feelings, and try again.

Remembering. Forgetting. I'm not sure which is worse.

That's what I love about Aibileen, she can take the most complicated things in life and wrap them up so small and simple, they'll fit right in your pocket.

No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.

What is love? two souls and one flesh; friendship? two bodies and one soul.

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

It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.

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.

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.

I despise the rituals of fake friendship. I wish we could just claw each other's eyes out and call it a day; instead we put on huge radiant smiles and spout compliments until our teeth hurt from the saccharine sweetness of it all.

The friends you make in college are friends you'll have for life, even if you don't talk for years at a time.

Friends are the family you choose.

A friend is someone who knows where all your bodies are buried. Because they're the ones who helped you put them there. And sometimes, if you're really lucky, they help you dig them back up.