#friendship

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. ↗

— Ann Landers

#bad #bad times #caught #confidence #fire

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others! ↗

— William Hazlitt

#common #even #friendship #hands #happiness

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#friendship #goodness #greatest #heart #lasting

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#cold #distasteful #friendships #like #meats

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#cannot #force #friendship #itself #left

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life. ↗

— George Herbert

#friendship #fruit #life #love #read

The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you. ↗

— Bette Midler

#happiness #humor #inspirational #jealousy #success

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#call #friends #matter #up #you

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#friendship

Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#friendship