#friendships

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable. ↗

— John D. MacDonald

#dependent #friendships #like #marriages

There have been some friendships lost over this. That's the most difficult for me. I find it very uncomfortable to know that I was at one time close friends with someone, and because of jealousies and misunderstandings and so on, these friendships have dissolved. ↗

— Donald Johanson

#been #close #close friends #difficult #dissolved

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

— Santosh Kalwar

#friendships #friendship

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

Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best. ↗

— Joseph Parry

#change #friendships #stood #surely #test

...I also have an extended family. The people who stayed. The people who became more than friends; the people who open the door when I knock. That's what it all boils down to. The people who have to open the door, not because they always want to but because they do. ↗

— Diane Keaton

#friendships #family

You and I are so different: I am one word at a time one foot in front of the other, slowly, always testing how surely footing is before proceeding to the next sentence with ruminative breaks for buttered toast and coffee. ↗

— Carlene Bauer

#relationships #friendship

It makes me think that a marriage of true minds - to again quote Shakespeare - is in many ways just dumb luck. ↗

— Carlene Bauer

#marriage #relationships #friendship

You can love them, forgive them, want good things for them…but still move on without them. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#friends #friendships #honoring-yourself #letting-go #loving-yourself

We were never friends. Not for a second. I loved you. ↗

— Piper Kerman

#love #friendship