#friends

We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust. ↗

— David Levithan

#love #reflection #trust #friendship

No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#love #friendship

She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#love #friendship

There is a primal reassurance in being touched, in knowing that someone else, someone close to you, wants to be touching you. There is a bone-deep security that goes with the brush of a human hand, a silent, reflex-level affirmation that someone is near, that someone cares. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#friendship #harry-dresden #friendship

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#friendship

I want to be the kind of person that kind people like and want to be like. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#admire #aspiration #aspire #character #desire

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#happiness #inspirational #friendship

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Being in a relationship, that's something you choose. Being friends, that's just something you are. . . [But] I do pick you. . . We've been friends too long to pick, but if we could pick, I'd pick you. ↗

— John Green

#friendship

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you. ↗

— Mark Twain

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