#hip

Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#friendship

I knew that part of friendship consisted in accepting a friend’s shortcomings, which sometimes included his parents. ↗

— John Knowles

#shortcomings #friendship

But it may be the hard part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#friendship #olwë #friendship

Sometimes he was weird, sometimes he was Captain Douchebag, but he was always my best friend. ↗

— Sharon Sant

#friendship #humour #friendship

When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

#suffering #temptation #friendship

To the return of old friends and to an unexpected but most welcome new one. ↗

— Veronica Rossi

#friendship

Wishing to be friends is quick work, bit making friendship is a slow ripening fruit. ↗

— Aristotle

#friendship

For you see, when us people who know run into each other that's an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That's a bad thing. It's happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us. ↗

— Carson McCullers

#empathy #friendship #knowing #knowledge #meeting

And here, according to Trout, was the reason human beings could not reject ideas because they were bad: "Ideas on Earth were badges of friendship or enmity. Their content did not matter. Friends agreed with friends, in order to express friendliness. Enemies disagreed with enemies, in order to express enmity. "The ideas Earthlings held didn't matter for hundreds of thousands of years, since they couldn't do much about them anyway. Ideas might as well be badges as anything. "They even had a saying about the futility of ideas: 'If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.' "And then Earthlings discovered tools. Suddenly agreeing with friends could be a form of suicide or worse. But agreements went on, not for the sake of common sense or decency or self-preservation, but for friendliness. "Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead. And even when they built computers to do some thinking for them, they designed them not so much for wisdom as for friendliness. So they were doomed. Homicidal beggars could ride. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#ideas #thinking #design

It's my new best friend, Claudius Templesmith, and as I expected it, he's inviting us to a feast. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#friendship #humor #friendship