#friendship

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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Things have gone beyond my wildest expectations and dreams, and I feel like I've been given so many blessings in my life, between my friendship with the guys in the band, our wonderful audience, being able to play this music, and then my family. ↗

— Trey Anastasio

#audience #band #been #being #between

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

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In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm. ↗

— Augustine Birrell

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The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. ↗

— William Blake

#bird #man #nest #spider #web

And they lived happily ever after” is one of the most tragic sentences in literature. It is tragic because it tells a falsehood about life and has led countless generations of people to expect something from human existence which is not possible on this fragile, imperfect earth. The “happy ending” obsession of Western culture is both a romantic illusions and a psychological handicap. It can never be literally true that love and marriage are unblemished perfections, for any worthwhile life has its trials, its disappointments, and its burning heartaches. Yet who can compare the numbers of people who have unconsciously absorbed this “and they lived happily ever after” illusion in their childhood and have thereafter been disappointed when life has not come up to their expectations and who secretly suffer from the jealous conviction that other married people know a kind of bliss that is denied them..Life is not paradise. It is pain, hardship, and temptation shot through with radiant gleams of light, friendship and love. ↗

— Joshua Loth Liebman

#marriage #romance #friendship

I really like the thing called friendship. And I think the most fulfilling kind of friendship is the one that you stumble quite randomly upon. Unexpected and unknown. You can learn a lot about yourself from these kinds of friendships, and some last a long time while others last only for the duration of time that you have together! But then I wonder, is the length of a friendship measured by the time you are given to spend within each others' company? Or is it measured by how long into the future you can look back at the photos you took, look back and replay the adventures and the laughter in your head; still feeling like it was one of the "bestest" times of your life? Because if it's the latter, I have a thousand friends! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

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