- “It’s a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn’t felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid. When you’re afraid, really afraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world. You make close friends. You become part of a tribe and you share the same blood- you give it together, you take it together.” ― Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried
- We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship. C.S. Lewis
- “Energy does not judge, it merely creates.” ― Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace: Essential Teachings for Enriching Life
- “Holding Eleanor’s hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.” ― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
- “Hanging around the small minded eventually makes us small minded. The plant only grows as big as the environment it’s in.” ― Torron-Lee Dewar, Creativity is Everything
- “You had to know a person well to make them laugh like that.” ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince
- “When the Washington Post telephoned me at home on Valentine’s Day 1989 to ask my opinion about the Ayatollah Khomeini’s fatwah, I felt at once that here was something that completely committed me. It was, if I can phrase it like this, a matter of everything I hated versus everything I loved. In the hate column: dictatorship, religion, stupidity, demagogy, censorship, bullying, and intimidation. In the love column: literature, irony, humor, the individual, and the defense of free expression. Plus, of course, friendship—though I like to think that my reaction would have been the same if I hadn’t known Salman at all. To re-state the premise of the argument again: the theocratic head of a foreign despotism offers money in his own name in order to suborn the murder of a civilian citizen of another country, for the offense of writing a work of fiction. No more root-and-branch challenge to the values of the Enlightenment (on the bicentennial of the fall of the Bastille) or to the First Amendment to the Constitution, could be imagined. President George H.W. Bush, when asked to comment, could only say grudgingly that, as far as he could see, no American interests were involved…” ― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir
- “We haven’t talked in five months and we both look like different people, but it’s the same, same, same.” ― Jandy Nelson, I’ll Give You the Sun
- “Desperateness sometimes makes us do something that gives someone, or some people, the impression that we suffer from forgetfulness.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- “We’re never lost in this world as long as we can find each other.” ― Cliff Hannold
- “The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.” ― Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
- Real friends don’t get offended when you insult them. They smile and call you something even more offensive.
- “Hermione was screaming again: the sound went through Harry like physical pain.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- “Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.” ― Whitney Otto, How to Make an American Quilt
- “I’d rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society.” ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
- “There’s a deep knowing beneath the epicenter of our anxious asking. Meet me there, & stillness will voice its soothing certainties with us.” ― Curtis Tyrone Jones
- A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have. Irish Proverb
- The friendship of one intelligent man is better than that of all the unintelligent. Democritus
- “Strong relationships come from well-bonded friendships.” ― Jonathan Anthony Burkett
- “Nobody steals books but your friends.” ― Roger Zelazny, The Guns of Avalon
- “I guess what I’m saying is of all the lives in all the towns in all the world, I’m glad you walked into mine.” ― Jenim Dibie
- Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. Jean de La Fontaine
- “Poor means when we lack things in our lives. There are two types of poverty. …those that need food and shelter and those that need God in their lives. We are called to service to help both group of people as much as we can.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- There cannot be friendship without equality. Swami Sivananda
- “More than friends, eh? More than friends… You know, my mother once told me that half of the hatred that springs up between people is rooted in this mistaken belief that there’s any human relationship more sacred than friendship.” ― Helen Oyeyemi, Gingerbread
- “Let yourself be a gift of love and presence. The greatest gift you can offer the world is the gift of your presence as an unconditional observer and lover of the world.” ― Tara Bianca, The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
- The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this? Henry David Thoreau
- “Free your friends to make mistakes, to be vulnerable, to have differing points of view, to trigger you and to be loved anyway. Always hold the vision for peace, joy, healing, growth and unconditional love in your relationships.” ― Tara Bianca, The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
- “It’s good to see the snakes revealing themselves. They weren’t actually hidden at all. People hide behind the masks, but eventually you see them for who they truly are.” ― Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Heart Crush
- “She walked down the basement steps. She saw an imaginary framed photo seep into the wall – a quiet-smiled secret. No more than a few meters, it was a long walk to the drop sheets and the assortment of paint cans that shielded Max Vandenburg. She removed the sheets closest to the wall until there was a small corridor to look through. The first part of him she saw was his shoulder, and through the slender gap, she slowly, painfully, inched her hand in until it rested there. His clothing was cool. He did not wake.She could feel his breathing and his shoulder moving up and down ever so slightly. For a while, she watched him. Then she sat and leaned back.Sleepy air seemed to have followed her.The scrawled words of practice stood magnificently on the wall by the stairs, jagged and childlike and sweet. They looked on as both the hidden Jew and the girl slept, hand to shoulder.They breathed.German and Jewish lungs.” ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief