#ip

Maybe this is the point: to embrace the core sadness of life without toppling headlong into it, or assuming it will define your days. ↗

— Gail Caldwell

#sadness #friendship

What our closest friends do for us is to teach us true selflessness. We learn that while it might be safer for them if we keep them out, true friendship means letting them in. We cannot decide for them what they are willing to suffer with us and for us. While we certainly don't want to see our friends suffer, friendship isn't about protecting each other from pain so much as it is about helping each other to become what God has called us to be. ↗

— Mark Mossa

#friendship #inspirational #friendship

Perhaps I won't marry then. Instead, you and I shall live as spinsters in a cottage by the sea. We'll burn our corsets, eat chocolate morning, noon and night and grow fat as hedgehogs. ↗

— Alyxandra Harvey

#humor #marriage #friendship

Reuven listen to me. The Talmud says that a person should do two things for himself. One is to acquire a teacher. Do you remember the other." "Choose a friend," I said. "Yes. You know what a friend is, Reuven? A Greek philosopher said that two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul." I nodded. "Reuven, if you can, make Danny Saunders your friend." "I like him a lot, abba." "No. Listen to me. I am not talking about only liking him. I am telling you to make him your friend and to let him make you his friend. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#talmud #friendship

Martin is your best friend, isn't he?' a sweet and well-intentioned girl once said when both of us were present: it was the only time I ever felt awkward about this precious idea, which seemed somehow to risk diminishment if it were uttered aloud. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#best-friends #friends #friendship #martin-amis #friendship

More than anything we have to realize we cannot drain the cup of friendship, taking all we can get of care, attention and concern without doing our share to help refill the cup. ↗

— Albert J. Nimeth OFM

#friendship

To know a person in his home is not to know him at all: to meet him on a country road with only his baggage is to at last contact the core, the inner cell of his personality. ↗

— John Tibbetts

#travel #friendship

Passion, friendship, love, loyalty, trust...if you found the right person...you really could have it all. ↗

— S.C. Stephens

#friendship

I know the M-word makes you nervous, but yeah. I'm talking about the big, permanent friendship. A little different from what Joe and Charles had, though. See, I want to be the kind of best friends who make love every night, who share all their darkest secrets and favorite jokes, and maybe even someday make babies together. I know that kind of friendship requires hard work, but you know, I'm pretty good at hard work. ~ Tom Paoletti, "The Unsung Hero ↗

— Suzanne Brockmann

#friendship

Tell me something only you know and make a new friend. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #friends #friendship #literature #literature-quotes