#ends

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

Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#friendship

Most friendships are bound to a specific time, place or season. Some women characterize these relationships as having expiration dates or shelf lives, because friendships tend to run their natural course. ↗

— Irene S. Levine

#dating

It's one thing to have a divinely inspired love given to you to experience and share; it's something else altogether to recognize it when it appears. Our job is to go on being humbled and grateful that we should get to experience such a thing in our lifetimes, and preserve its magic by doing the most responsible thing possible to keep it alive . . . Just keep saying yes. ↗

— Mark Fiore

#humor #inspirational #love #marriage #memoir

By surrounding yourself with people who are positive, caring, intelligent, loving, and open-minded, you create a personal environment that is conducive to your emotional and personal growth. By surrounding yourself with the opposite, you create a personal environment that is conducive to the opposite. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#happiness #inspirational #life #people #success

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. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#friendship #love #friendship

Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly. ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#friendship #gender-differences #friendship

What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#friendship