#friendship

Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition. ↗

— John O'Donohue

#love #friendship

The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#friendship

Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough. ↗

— Elif Shafak

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The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#despise #despised #dupe #enough #fool

I have a very close friendship with the skaters. ↗

— Eric Heiden

#friendship #i #skaters #very

It would be so great to have someone my own age to talk to, even if it was just about books. ↗

— Alex Flinn

#beastly #books #friendship #loneliness #reading

Maybe I was praying for him then, in my own way. Does God have a set way of prayer, a way that He expects each of us to follow? I doubt it. I believe some people-- lots of people-- pray through the witness of their lives, through the work they do, the friendships they have, the love they offer people and receive from people. Since when are words the only acceptable form of prayer? ↗

— Dorothy Day

#god #love #prayer #witness #words

I felt Holmes's hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake. - Watson ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#reassurance #friendship

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of. ↗

— Sarah Orne Jewett

#always #best #catch #fit #friends

Some people say, you can only get jealous when you feel insecure. ↗

— Nurilla Iryani

#love #romance #friendship