#ness

When you're alone is when you can count your friends. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#friendliness #friends #friendship #friendship-and-love #friendship-true-and-loyal

Each meeting occurs at the precise moment for which it was meant. Usually, when it will have the greatest impact on our lives. ↗

— Nadia Scrieva

#fortune #friendship #impact #love #meeting

How can you lose me? You’ve owned me from the first moment I saw you. ↗

— Dianna Hardy

#belonging #bond #bonding #friendship #love

Now Doon seemed to care for his new friends more than he did for her. Every time she thought about him she felt a thud of pain, like a bruised place inside her. ↗

— Jeanne DuPrau

#city-of-ember #friendship #jeanne-duprau #lef-out #loneliness

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

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

Our society is so fragmented, our family lives so sundered by physical and emotional distance, our friendships so sporadic, our intimacies so 'in-between' things and often so utilitarian, that there are few places where we can feel truly safe. ↗

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

#brokenness #despair #isolation #loneliness #society

Hold dear and true friends close to your heart, it matters not where you find them, only that you treat them with love and respect always. ↗

— L.M. Fields

#heart #kindness #love #respect #truth

The old man slowly raised himself from the piano stool, fixed those cheerful blue eyes piercingly and at the same time with unimaginable friendliness upon him, and said: "Making music together is the best way for two people to become friends. There is none easier. That is a fine thing. I hope you and I shall remain friends. Perhaps you too will learn how to make fugues, Joseph. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#happiness #life #music #philosophy #friendship

Gentleness towards self and others makes life a little lighter. ↗

— Deborah Day

#friendship #gentleness #kindness #friendship