#friends

. . . the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain. ↗

— Mary Shelley

#friendship

True friends will always push you towards the great possibilities of your future, false friends will always chain you to the mistakes in your past. ↗

— Seth Brown

#friendship #love #mistakes #truth #friendship

There must be a stronger foundation than mere friendship or sexual attraction. Unconditional love, agape love, will not be swayed by time or circumstances. ↗

— Stephen Kendrick

#love #marriage #unconditional-love #friendship

...and when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment... ↗

— Plato

#soulmates #friendship

Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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Most friendships are bound to a specific time, place or season. Some women characterize these relationships as having expiration dates or shelf lives, because friendships tend to run their natural course. ↗

— Irene S. Levine

#dating

I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures. ↗

— Gail Caldwell

#recovery #friendship

He brought out the worst in me, and was the best thing that ever happened to me. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#breakups #coco-j-ginger #friendship #i-love-him #i-love-you

People aren’t always what you want them to be. Sometimes they disappoint you or let you down, but you have to give them a chance first. You can’t just meet someone and expect them to be everything you’re looking for and then be angry when they’re not every hope and aspiration you projected onto them. It’s foolish to believe that someone will be what you imagine them to be. And sometimes, when you give them a chance, they turn out to be better than you imagined. Different, but better. ↗

— Chloe Rattray

#realization #second-chances #friendship

We both grew so used to each other, so comfortable with the naturalness and ease of our friendship, that we became sloppy about keeping our relationship a secret. It was not that we were physically demonstrative or obviously in love, more that it had become impossible for us to hide our close involvement. We had gradually acquired the unmistakable air of old-love: finishing each other's sentences and speaking to each other with an offhand, presuming intimacy that was eventually noticed. ↗

— Kate Kerrigan

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