#friendship

Friendships are discovered rather than made. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#friendships #made #rather #than

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial. ↗

— Nahum Tate

#friendship #greatness #knows #men #private

Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up. ↗

— Terence

#beginning #friendships #great #many #sprung

We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether... The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#inspirational #family

Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness? ↗

— Anna Freud

#around #basically #everything #everywhere #friendship

When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better. ↗

— Zhang Ziyi

#better #close #discover #each #eager

[On married love] This love is above all fully human, a compound of sense and spirit. It is not, then, merely a question of natural instinct or emotional drive. It is also, and above all, an act of the free will, whose trust is such that it is meant not only to survive the joys and sorrows of daily life, but also to grow, so that husband and wife become in a way one heart and one soul, and together attain their human fulfillment. It is a love which is total—that very special form of personal friendship in which husband and wife generously share everything, allowing no unreasonable exceptions and not thinking solely of their own convenience. Whoever really loves his partner loves not only for what he receives, but loves that partner for the partner's own sake, content to be able to enrich the other with the gift of himself. ↗

— Pope Paul VI

#love #married-love #friendship

It is proper for people to have friends, friendships without self-interest. Without friends, life is too lonely. ↗

— Pramoedya Ananta Toer

#friendship #friendship

I was stunned. I pulled the phone away and looked quizzically at the hole-punched speaker. Aside from the blood obligation to be my sister's maid of honor, it had never occured to me that I would get asked to be in anyone's wedding. I thought we had reached an understanding, the institution of marriage and I. Weddings are the like the triathlon of female friendship: the Shower, the Bachelorette Party, and the Main Event. It's the Iron Woman and most people never make it through. They fall off their bikes or choke on ocean water. I figured if I valued my life, I'd stay away from weddings and they'd stay away from me. ↗

— Sloane Crosley

#triathlon #weddings #friendship

All beautiful distractions, ignites from you. ↗

— V.S.Atbay - Epiphany A Collection of Poems

#friendship-and-love #hope #love #lovers #poetry-love