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فقدتني زمناً إن يكن في قلبك منه وخزة قلبي ففي قلبي كحز السيف! لم أنسك نسيان الجحود وإن كنت لم أذكرك ذكرى الوفاء فأبعث إليك بخبر يترجم عني ↗

— مصطفى صادق الرافعي

#صداقة #friendship

Much of the vitality in a friendship lies in the honoring of differences, not simply in the enjoyment of similarities". ↗

— James Fredericks

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you know someone by what they say about others ↗

— camerounian poet

#inspirational #friendship

Is it not enough to shine, To know that friends are true? That love is born of friendship, And who you are is you? ↗

— Frederic M. Perrin

#young-adult #young-adult-fantasy #friendship

I would lie of course. I lied a lot and with good reason: to protect the truth—safeguard it like wearing fake gems to keep the real ones from getting stolen or cheapened by overuse. I guarded what truths I possessed because information was not a thing—it was colorless odorless shapeless and therefore indestructible. There was no way to retrieve or void it no way to halt its proliferation. Telling someone a secret was like storing plutonium inside a sandwich bag the information would inevitably outlive the friendship or love or trust in which you’d placed it. And then you would have given it away. ↗

— Jennifer Egan

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Pride was the belt you used to hold your pants up when you had no pants. ↗

— Stephen King

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Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will.' Her lips touched his cheek. 'I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry. ↗

— David Nicholls

#love #friendship

Unfortunately we do treat others as we treat ourselves. We should try being genuinely kind to ourselves first and the rest will come naturally, like an 18-kt. Golden Rule.” ― Erica Goros, The Daisy Chain ↗

— Erica Goros

#friendships #golden-rule #help #inspiration #life

I hope it's the kind of second side that he can listen to whenever he drives alone and feel like he belongs to something whenever he's sad. I hope it can be that for him. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

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What some now call 'emerging Christianity' or 'the emerging church' is not something you join, establish, or invent. You just name it and then you see it everywhere- already in place! Such nongroup groups, the 'two or three' gathered in deep truth, create a whole new level of affiliation, dialogue, and friendship... ↗

— Richard Rohr

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