#friends

My mother, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got terminal cancer and at least five of my other friends have had cancer but survived it. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#best friend #cancer #died #father #five

True compassion does not sit on the laps of renovation; it dives with an approach to reconstruction. Don't throw a coin at a begger. Rather, destroy his source of poverty. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#beg #begger #begging #coin #coins

Every person has a dark side. What defines a person with good character is not a spotless life of constant kindness, smiles and even temperament. But rather, it’s the yearning to learn from your mistakes, applying it, making amends for them and choosing not to repeat them that defines good character. These are the friends to keep in your life because they have stared adversity in the face and became a better person because of it. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#forgiveness #friendship #second-chances #forgiveness

I'm opening up my heart to the idea of dating. It's funny - my friends would always come to me for romantic advice. I know nothing, and things have changed since I was dating in high school! I'm really trying hard to spend this time working on myself. ↗

— Olivia Wilde

#always #changed #come #dating #friends

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#disliked #friends #his #intensely

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#begins #ends #friends #glory #had

Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld. ↗

— Henry Williamson

#birds #childhood #devon #everywhere #eyes

Sometimes people just want you to fail. Except your really good friends. I've always known who my best friends were. ↗

— Kato Kaelin

#best #except #fail #friends #good

The best relationships develop out of friendships. ↗

— Diane Keaton

#develop #friendships #out #relationships

Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused. ↗

— Luke Ford

#anger #feared #frequently #friendships #hatred