Friendship Quotes - Summer friends will melt away like summer snows
“In
friendship...we think we have chosen our peers. In reality a few years'
difference in the dates of our births, a few more miles between certain houses,
the choice of one university instead of another...the accident of a topic being
raised or not raised at a first meeting--any of these chances might have kept
us apart. But, for a Christian, there are, strictly speaking no chances. A
secret master of ceremonies has been at work. Christ, who said to the
disciples, "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you," can truly
say to every group of Christian friends, "Ye have not chosen one another
but I have chosen you for one another." The friendship is not a reward for
our discriminating and good taste in finding one another out. It is the instrument
by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.”
―
C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
“No
human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely
different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together
to find what one cannot reach alone.”
―
Kahlil Gibran
“However
rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.”
―
Albert Einstein
“My
old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer
snows, but winter friends are friends forever.”
―
George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows
“There
is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling
that your presence is an addition to their comfort.”
―
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“Because
I can't help doing it," he said with a shrug. "And hey, if I keep
loving you, maybe you'll eventually crack and love me too. Hell, I'm pretty
sure you're already half in love with me."
"I
am not! And everything you just said is ridiculous. That's terrible
logic."
Adrian
returned to his crossword puzzle. "Well, you can think what you want, so
long as you remember-no matter how ordinary things seem between us-I'm still
here, still in love with you, and care about you more than any other guy, evil
or otherwise, ever will."
"I
don't think you're evil."
"See?
Things are already looking promising.”
―
Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell
“Cutting
people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.”
―
Walter Dean Myers, Slam!
“I
don't want to hurt you or anybody so please forget about me. Just try. Find
yourself a better friend.”
―
Nina LaCour, Hold Still
“Anything
that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more
manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming,
less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk
can help us know that we are not alone.”
―
Fred Rogers
“Sometimes
you want to say, “I love you, but…”
Yet
the “but” takes away the ‘I love you’. In love their are no ‘buts’ or ‘if’s’ or
‘when’. It’s just there, and always. No beginning, no end. It’s the
condition-less state of the heart. Not a feeling that comes and goes at the
whim of the emotions. It is there in our heart, a part of our heart…eventually
grafting itself into each limb and cell of our bodies. Love changes our brain,
the way we move and talk. Love lives in our spirit and graces us with its
presence each day, until death.
To
say “I love you, but….” is to say, “I did not love you at all”.
I
say this to you now: I love you, with no beginning, no end. I love you as you
have become an extra necessary organ in my body. I love you as only a girl
could love a boy. Without fear. Without expectations. Wanting nothing in
return, except that you allow me to keep you here in my heart, that I may
always know your strength, your eyes, and your spirit that gave me freedom and
let me fly.”
―
Jamie Weise
“It's
not love or anything, but I think I like you, too.”
―
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“I
ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.”
―
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“I
hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should
stand guard over the solitude of the other.”
―
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
“In
prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.”
―
John Churton Collins
“I
don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say
they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know
anyone.”
―
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game
“Luna
had decorated her bedroom ceiling with five beautifully painted faces: Harry,
Ron, Hermione, Ginny, and Neville. They were not moving as the portraits at
Hogwarts moved, but there was a certain magic about them all the same: Harry
thought they breathed. What appeared to be fine golden chains wove around the
pictures, linking them together, but after examining them for a minute or so,
Harry realized that the chains were actually one word, repeated a thousand
times in golden ink: friends . . . friends . . . friends . . .”
―
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“Time
doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation.”
―
Tennessee Williams, Memoirs
“I
have one last hope for you, which is something that I already had at 21. The
friends with whom I sat on graduation day have been my friends for life. They
are my children’s godparents, the people to whom I’ve been able to turn in
times of trouble, friends who have been kind enough not to sue me when I’ve
used their names for Death Eaters. At our graduation we were bound by enormous
affection, by our shared experience of a time that could never come again, and,
of course, by the knowledge that we held certain photographic evidence that
would be exceptionally valuable if any of us ran for Prime Minister.”
―
J.K. Rowling, Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the
Importance of Imagination
“A
friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.”
―
Jim Morrison
“A
wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.”
―
Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle
