8,502 Quotes About Friendship

You poor thing," she said."What are you talking about?" he asked.She just hugged him tighter. She didn't want this moment to end. She didn't want to have to go. "I just don't want the world to break you.

You can't please everyone around you, but try as much to appreciate those who deserve to be appreciated.

Will you please tell me you love me? I'm dying here.

While shared values aren’t sufficient for friendship, friendship is impossible without shared values. In fact, one reason people are hurt by those they had considered friends is that friends are too often chosen without attention to their values.

I have a simple rule that is of great value in identifying whom to trust: Do not choose friends on the basis of personality, ‘chemistry,’ or enjoyment alone. Know their character (i.e. their values and whether they act on those values) before you trust them.

One way to test whether you have chosen your friends wisely is to ask yourself why they are your friends. If your only answer is that you like them and they are fun to be with (certainly important components of friendship), you probably haven’t given consideration to their values. Or try this: what case could you make to people who have never met your friends to prove that your friends are good people?

And how lucky am I to have found a friend like you?

I must not be so bad if I have a friend like that.

The partner/friend binary places coupled, monogamous, romantic, sexual, partnered love right at the pinnacle of human experience. Like the sexual and gender binaries this is quite a new, Western dominant culture thing to do, and certainly not the way that relationships have been done globally, or across time.