#friends

We have better relationships with those who truly seek us rather than those sitting on the couch watching us move mountains trying to prove ourselves. ↗

— Criss Jami

#courtship #dating #friend #friends #friendship

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#girlfriends #dating

We can let go of the person or love or friendship without letting go of the lesson. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#dating #friendships #lessons #let-go #letting-go

A male-female close-friendship hardly differs from a relationship; it takes "relating" to be friends. But sadly, not every relationship has friendship in it. It's just ironical that two people who are not good enough to be best friends are in love and want to spend the rest of their lives together. ↗

— Olaotan Fawehinmi

#close-friendship #dating #female #friends #friendship

That's ridiculous. The only point in having enemies is so you can defeat them, kill them, brush them aside." "Or give them a chance to redeem themselves. ↗

— Derek Landy

#enemies-and-friends #second-chances #tolerance #death

I can’t hope to convey the full effect of the embraces and avowals, but I can perhaps offer a crumb of counsel. If there is anybody known to you who might benefit from a letter or a visit, do not on any account postpone the writing or the making of it. The difference made will almost certainly be more than you have calculated ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#death #friendship #illness #love #solidarity

I gained another friend. ↗

— Tsugumi Ohba

#death

poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you ↗

— Walt Whitman

#civil-war #compassion #comrade #comradeship #death

Taggle looked up at her, his amber eyes as deep as the loneliness Kate had felt before he became her friend. "The traditional thing," he said slowly, "involves the river and a sack. ↗

— Erin Bow

#friendship #love #sacrifice #talking-animals #death

Ah, Harry, how often this happens, even between the best of friends! Each of us believes that what he has to say is much more important than anything the other might have to contribute! ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#blood