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One of life's challenging realizations is that sometimes you outgrow your friends. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#friends #outgrow #realizations #experience

Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#blame #correcting #error #fault #friendship

Never worry alone. When anxiety grabs my mind, it is self-perpetuating. Worrisome thoughts reproduce faster than rabbits, so one of the most powerful ways to stop the spiral of worry is simply to disclose my worry to a friend... The simple act of reassurance from another human being [becomes] a tool of the Spirit to cast out fear -- because peace and fear are both contagious. ↗

— John Ortberg Jr.

#fear #friendship #holy-spirit #humanity #mind

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. ↗

— Sarah Orne Jewett

#love #friendship

Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent ↗

— Robert Greene

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. . . the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain. ↗

— Mary Shelley

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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. ↗

— Seth Brown

#friendship #love #mistakes #truth #friendship

There must be a stronger foundation than mere friendship or sexual attraction. Unconditional love, agape love, will not be swayed by time or circumstances. ↗

— Stephen Kendrick

#love #marriage #unconditional-love #friendship

...and when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment... ↗

— Plato

#soulmates #friendship

There are some things you can’t learn at any university, except for one, the University of Life...the only college where everyone is a permanent student. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#learning #learning-from-mistakes #learning-process #life-experience #life-lessons