“Never doubt the friendship of someone who sends you memes without asking.”
“Always remember the one who doesn’t handshake, they are the ones you should be extra careful with.”
“If you can relate to their pain, it’s easy to become their friends.”
“The closer you want to come today, the further you ll need to stay apart tomorrow. Only self-control will be your truest friend in the long game of life.”
“One thing that you can accomplish for yourselves is to be friends with yourself, give yourself love as you provide for different companions and make yourself your number 1 priority because you can t adore individuals and make them to accept that you love them except if you do not love yourself People are temporary, you with you is permanent. Just be your own paradise!”
“We re *all* sparrows.”
“The best fellowship is friendship.”
“People. One might find friends here. She had found at least one friend already. And since she had had no friends at all, that was a treasure past any attempt at counting.”
“Friends in books are the best. They sleep in the pages when I don’t want to talk and they share their days with me soundlessly—I know what makes them sad or scared or happy—when I lift their covers.”
“There is no fellowship without friendship.”
“Without loyalty, there is not love.”
“Opinions are many; truth is one. Why? One is two not to be alone. All this for companionship, friendship, love.”
“I will let go of you now. You were my secret. You were in my life, someone whose presence would never be guessed by anyone who knew me. Even though nobody knew that you were in my life, you were the person who brought me a raft for every rapid current and helped me cross that water safely. I was happy that you were there. I came to tell you that I was able to travel through my life because I could come to you when I was anxious, not when I was happy. I am going to go now.”
“Trading favors, the relationship tit for tat that social scientists call reciprocal altruism, was long thought to be the basic backbone of friendship. But recent research has revealed that we actually care less about fairness with our friends than we do when dealing with strangers and acquaintances. In a friendship, when either person insists on repaying a favor it s seen as signaling a weakness in the relationship. Friendship is what happens beyond the tracking of favors.... Among the traits exclusive to -Homo sapiens-, altruism and selflessness are near the top of what makes us human.”
“I m sorry I wasn t a better friend while you were alive. Your passing ended your life on earth, but it also ended my ability to live. For ten years I didn t know if I was all right; I had gone through the motions of living. Now I have been given a second chance because of you.”
“وإنّما سمي الصديق من الصدق؛ وقد يتّهم صدق القلب وإن صدق اللسان؛ فكيف إذا ظهر الكذب على اللسان؟! وإن ّ الشرير يُكسبك العدو، ولا حاجة لك في صداقة تجلب العداوة؛ وإن ّ المشنوع شانع صاحبه”
“Friendship and love cannot thrive when trapped in trauma.”