#true

How rare true love maybe, it is less so than true friendship. ↗

— François de La Rochefoucauld

#true-love #friendship

True friendship never questions what it costs you. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#friendliness #friendly #friends #friends-forever #friendship

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

— Stephen Richards

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

But, I believe," I continue, "I know what true love is - or what it should be." "What should it be?" Tristan asks, his voice soft now. "It should be a friendship and truly knowing who a person is, knowing his flaws and hopes and strengths and fears, knowing all of it. And admiring and caring for - loving the person because of those things. ↗

— Lisa Ann Sandell

#elaine-of-ascalot #friendship #gradual-love #lady-of-shallot #over-the-years

Papa, do you like my new friend?" Frances Catherine asked when they were halfway across the field. "I surely do." "Can I keep her?" "For the love of...No, you can't keep her. She isn't a puppy. You can be her friend, though," he hastily added before his daughter could argue with him. "Forever, papa?" She 'd asked her father that question, but Judith answered her. "Forever," she shyly whispered. Frances Catherine reached across her father's chest to take hold of Judith's hand. "Forever," she pledged. ↗

— Julie Garwood

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When you let people into the inner sanctum of your life, you risk having them see the heart of you. (from Vanishing Acts) ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#love #true-self #friendship

Give them time to think things over. ↗

— AceQwetyu

#inspirational-life #love-hurts #lovers-quarrels #friendship

Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#friends #friendship #knowing-your-worth #love #not-settling

Let me, however, although no verbal critic, protest against the profanation of the word friend. In this my history I must be honest, make a distinction between the oriental diamond and its worthless imitation of paste, and separate the grain from the chaff — gossamer words, that weigh nothing, from substantial realities heavier than gold. ↗

— Edward John Trelawny

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That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of the other ↗

— Ray Bradbury

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