poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you
It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not read friendship.
How could you carry the inside of a person with you and not call them a friend, no matter what the rules said?
it’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.
Ok, I get it now ... and it's just like you to do this to yourself ... you've been suffering inside your head the entire time, haven't you?
That's the cool thing about having a best friend. They know what your pain feels like already, so you don't have to explain it.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather, it gives value to survival. Also, it's a great excuse for bad jokes.
But people need lift, too. People don't get moving, they don't soar, they don't achieve great heights, without something buoying them up.
Giving is the birthplace of reciprocity. It is the starting point. It is the engine that starts the machine of reciprocity into operation.
For if the truth were known, Love cannot speak, But only thinks and does; Though surely out 'twill leak Without the help of Greek, Or any tongue.
Evan always used to day that it wasn't that you couldn't see that you should be afraid of, but what was right in front of you, in plain sight.
Oh for God's sake,' Heather said, 'I wish you two would just go out, fail miserably as a couple, and get it over with.
An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy.
That's what friends do: they notice things. They're there for each other. They see what parents don't.
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you even if you forget the words.
Friends make friends better. We accept the bad parts, celebrate the good parts, and we don't torture you for your mistakes
There are Good Ships, there Wood Ships, there are Ships that sail the sea. The best Ships are Friendships, and may they always be!
The only thing you get from insisting on winning an argument is a temporarily inflatedsense of self worth and permanently alienated friends.
Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
And here was the moment. The end of it all, for civilization was merely another name for friendship, and friendship was coming to an end.
