#friendship

But as I was saying, from my experiences, I think men tend to be more timid in expressing their feelings for you. Regardless, I always prefer a friendship first and foremost. ↗

— Alicia Machado

#experiences #expressing #feelings #first #foremost

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. ↗

— Katherine Mansfield

#always #comfort #explain #felt #great

I am proud to represent these men and women who empower people in developing nations and promote the Peace Corps mission of peace and friendship. These volunteers are making major strides to improve the lives of people and communities around the world. ↗

— Kenny Marchant

#around #communities #corps #developing #empower

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. ↗

— Anais Nin

#arrive #born #each #friend #meeting

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship? ↗

— Anais Nin

#friendship #i #love #overlook #real

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. ↗

— Henri Nouwen

#advice #ask #chosen #cures #find

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares. ↗

— Henri Nouwen

#bereavement #cares #confusion #curing #despair

One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made. ↗

— Carroll O'Connor

#friendships #i #irreducible #lasting #loving

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#cares #dividing #doubles #friendship #happy

Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship. ↗

— Laura Riding

#already #art #because #called #easiest