#friendships

When you are your own best friend, you don’t endlessly seek out relationships, friendships, and validation from the wrong sources because you realize that the only approval and validation you need is your own. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#confidence #friendships #liking-yourself #love-yourself-first #loving-yourself

One spirit remained unaware of his presence, staring at Miss Parker with such longing that he reluctantly decided to let it stay. The spirit, a hollow-eyed girl with ringlets and clothing from long past, reached toward Percy, wishing to touch her. Alexi understood. When left to her own devices, Miss Parker was neither shy nor awkward; she was radiant. ↗

— Leanna Renee Hieber

#friendships #longing #romance #strangely-beautiful-series #beauty

That's a job that it makes a few friendships, but it probably breaks more. ↗

— Michael McKean

#few #friendships #job #makes #more

You don't have to dislike people you disagree with and it doesn't mean you shouldn't be able to have bipartisan friendships in this place. Life's too short to have it any other way. ↗

— Dave Obey

#any #bipartisan #disagree #dislike #friendships

If a friend to me is friend to all then a friend to all is not a friend to me. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#friendships #friendship

The Games are just a nice, positive way to build friendships, camaraderie and, of course, self-esteem. Plus, the Games are a great opportunity for people to participate in sports who normally wouldn't. ↗

— Greg Louganis

#camaraderie #course #friendships #games #great

So I really did stop and change what I saw I was about, and really try to put that principle into play as the center of everything - my friendships, my marriage, my career, my family, my way of being in the world. And that changed everything for me. ↗

— Kathy Mattea

#being #career #center #change #changed

With girls, friendships are hard because you have to learn to get to a maturity level to love them but not want to be them. ↗

— Nikki Reed

#friendships #get #hard #learn #level

...friends were more important than lovers - not least for the fact that friendships generally lasted longer than relationships. ↗

— John Irving

#relationships #friendship

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#real #solitude #worst