#friendships

But it's amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#children #comes #friendships #gay #having

I enjoyed being involved in team sports and making close friendships. ↗

— Brian McBride

#close #enjoyed #friendships #i #involved

And I tell you that's one of the reasons why I didn't have the friendships with the media, maybe like I could have. But I had to do what I had to do to make myself successful. ↗

— Eddie Murray

#friendships #had #i #like #make

All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#details #documentation #fascinating #friendships #however

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#behind #each #few #friend #friendships

Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing. ↗

— Randolph Bourne

#fragile #friendships #handling #much #other

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice. ↗

— David Elkind

#adolescence #chance #childhood #choice #friendships

In our friendships we have to be wise that we choose godly people to be our friends. Somebody might say, well does that mean that you should never have a lost person as your friend? No, I wouldn't say that. But you can't have the same intimacy with a lost person that you can with a godly person in whom the Holy Spirit is living. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#does #friend #friends #friendships #godly

The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last. ↗

— Andrew Sullivan

#begin #even #friendships #gay #last

You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities. ↗

— Barbara Bush

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