#ends

What is particularly striking about his reconstruction and criticisms of the traditional account of friendship is that he finds it deficient not only by the light of his own Christian viewpoint; he also finds friendship deficient when judged from the perspective of its own self-proclaimed ethical foundations. Thus, Kierkegaard concludes that the reciprocity involved in friendship actually betrays its essential selfishness. ↗

— Graham Smith

#friendship #kiekegaard #responsibility #friendship

How I ever could have thought he was boring or easy was beyond me’ (Daisy, 'Friendship on Fire', p. 471). ↗

— Danielle Weiler

#friendship

Every person comes with a place. It can be a house, a park, a building. When you meet someone, you are unknowingly meeting a place, a two-for-one deal that neither party is really aware of yet. Regular Joe’s is Marcus’ place. Mine is the library, second floor, nonfiction, the table between the Poker aisle and European History. Two-thousand days of friendship means that we share. ↗

— Chloe Rattray

#friendship

That's how it was on Irving Circle and how I was raised: You made the best out of what was within reach, which meant friendships engineered by parents and by the happenstance of housing. I stayed with it because we both had queenly older sisters who rarely condescended to play with us, because Shelley was adopted and I was not, because Shelley had Clue and Life, and I did not ↗

— Elinor Lipman

#making-do #friendship

Good Things Never Stay .. This what People Say.. So,When I met you I knew That Oneday , You Will just Go Away ! STILL...I'll pray & pray That we walk The Same WAY ( : ↗

— mohammed abdel-mohsen

#friendship

Toxic people will pollute everything around them. Don’t hesitate. Fumigate. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#friendship #letting-go #loving-yourself #moving-on #negative-people

[Friendship] is a relationship that has no formal shape, there are no rules or obligations or bonds as in marriage or the family, it is held together by neither law nor property nor blood, there is no glue in it but mutual liking. It is therefore rare. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#family

He reached out and intertwined our hands. Gently urging me forward he whispered, “Have I lost you love? ↗

— Erin Jamison

#relationships #risk #trust #love

White lies are in chapter two of the bestfriend handbook. They are to be used sparingly and only under extreme circumstances. I'm pretty sure finding out your boyfriend of more than a year is a total jerk qualifies. ↗

— Heather Hepler

#love #love

<> It's nice of you to say I'm your best friend. <> You are my best friend, dummy. <> Really? You are my best friend. But I always assumed that somebody else was your best friend, and I was totally okay with that. You don't have to say that I'm your best friend just to make me feel good. <> You're so lame. <> That's why I figured somebody else was your best friend. ↗

— Rainbow Rowell

#love #friendship