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One has only to set a loved human being against the fact that we are all in peril all the time to get back a sense of proportion. What does anything matter compared to the reality of love and its span, so brief at best, maintained against such odds? ↗

— May Sarton

#love #pain #peril #relationships #friendship

So from now on, screw "perfect." Forget for a while about what kind of person you want to be, and just be the best version of the person you are. Figure out which of your classmates you genuinely like (not who you want to like you), and get to know them by telling your own stories and listening to theirs. Hang out with the people you think are cool, not the people you'd like to be considered cool by. Do things because they interest you, not because they make you look interesting... and then, take stock in a month and see whether you're not happier, healthier, and working on some actual friendships with other imperfect-but-lovely humans. ↗

— Kat Rosenfield

#ideals #perfection #friendship

She stabbed him with her wicked pretty knife, disrupted his simple life. She's a player, a heartbreaker, and now she breaks alone. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#cheating-lips #friendship #heartbreaker #jamie-weise #love

K, the lady at the store said yellow means friendship and red means love. The rosary is the only thing I own that has value to me. It's yours. I'm yours C. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#kiara-westford #letter #friendship

True friendship never questions what it costs you. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#friendliness #friendly #friends #friends-forever #friendship

At home, besides being Peter or Jane, we also bear a general character; husband or wife, brother or sister, chief, colleague or subordinate. Not among Friends. It is an affair of disentangled, or stripped, minds. Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#friendship #love #personality #friendship

...the older I get, the more I believe that if love is to be judged by most of its visible effects, it looks more like hatred than friendship. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

#arbell #believe #betrayal #cale #effects

Why would anyone want perfection when growth comes from flaws? ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#flaws #friendships #life #perfection #perfectionist

But, I believe," I continue, "I know what true love is - or what it should be." "What should it be?" Tristan asks, his voice soft now. "It should be a friendship and truly knowing who a person is, knowing his flaws and hopes and strengths and fears, knowing all of it. And admiring and caring for - loving the person because of those things. ↗

— Lisa Ann Sandell

#elaine-of-ascalot #friendship #gradual-love #lady-of-shallot #over-the-years

I don't think chocolate and blueberries would be good, I think YOU and chocolate would be better. ↗

— Oscar Torres

#blueberries #chocolate #friendship #good #love