#ship

One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words, they lie concealed in the silence between the words or in the depth of what is unsayable between two people. ↗

— John O'Donohue

#understanding #friendship

She let him finish her sentences for her for so long that now he starts them too. ↗

— David Mitchell

#dreams

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. ↗

— Alice Walker

#demands #denies #friend #grow #person

When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier. ↗

— Diane von Furstenberg

#life #self-love #women #friendship

We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

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Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another? We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone? ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#friendship #important #love #people #philosophy

A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

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Sam and Patrick looked at me. And I looked at them. And I think they knew. Not anything specific really. They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

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Demons run when a good man goes to war Night will fall and drown the sun When a good man goes to war Friendship dies and true love lies Night will fall and the dark will rise When a good man goes to war Demons run, but count the cost The battle's won, but the child is lost ↗

— Steven Moffat

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