#ends

Those who cannot conceive Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend. The rest of us know that though we can have erotic love and friendship for the same person yet in some ways nothing is less like a Friendship than a love-affair. Lovers are always talking to one another about their love; Friends hardly ever about their Friendship. Lovers are normally face to face, absorbed in each other; Friends, side by side, absorbed in some common interest. Above all, Eros (while it lasts) is necessarily between two only. But two, far from being the necessary number for Friendship, is not even the best. And the reason for this is important. ... In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to show all his facets... Hence true Friendship is the least jealous of loves. Two friends delight to be joined by a third, and three by a fourth, if only the newcomer is qualified to become a real friend. They can then say, as the blessed souls say in Dante, 'Here comes one who will augment our loves.' For in this love 'to divide is not to take away. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#love #friendship

The most intriguing people you will encounter in this life are the people who had insights about you that you didn't know about yourself. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#family #friendship #pastors #family

Dying for a person that you love is easy ,what's hard is living for a person that you love. ↗

— K. Qasim Ali

#love #philosophy #friendship

A perfect, enduring friendship between a couple of freaks ↗

— Stephanie Rowe

#friendship #friendship

With This Time Lost, Comes Time To Spend. To Spend On Love, Friends, Family, And Most Of All.. Time To Spend On Life. ↗

— Jesse Holdeman

#friends #life #love #family

You and me-we've whored together. We've fought together.And I still dunna understand how ye always seems to know where the money is hidden and the liquor is stored and the scandals are richest.' It's a gift. ↗

— Christina Dodd

#gifts #humor #friendship

...there remained a strange formality between them, and her pleasure in his presence felt too much like missing him had felt during the last week. ↗

— Robin McKinley

#missing #relationships #friendship

Love Is A Friendship On Fire ! ↗

— Juwell Precious

#love #friendship

A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#spouse #friendship

If it's easy to be friendly she will be. If the wind blows the other way her friendship will be gone. And I'm thinking the wind is blowing the other way. She has found some other way to be an important person in her own right by hating others. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#haters #life-and-living #friendship