Friendship Quotes - Page 17

Looking back on months and years of intimacy, to feel that your friend, while you still remember the moving words you exchanged, is yet growing distant and living in a world apart—all this is sadder far than partings brought by death.

When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.

I Am ! Two powerful words.... You must confess... I Am who God called me to be. I Am a Success. I Am not what you think of me. I Am more than a conqueror. I Am walking by Faith. I Am a Gift.

Vision inspires and clarifies what needs to be done in the present to achieve the promise of the future.

A word is a small song.

I'm sitting in front of the TV, watching Jerry Springer, and it makes me think of how many mad people there are in the world, and whether everyone is mad deep down, they just pretend they're not, and it's the people in asylums or on Jerry Springer who are the honest ones. I have a notebook and a chewed-up pen, and I'm trying to think of a topic for the Youth Issues speech. Mrs Thomas says she thinks I have a lot to say, but I don't. Nothing I can put words to anyway. I could talk about bullying, or alcoholism, but I don't think I could speak about that out loud, it's too real, and it'd be like I was standing up there naked. More than naked. It would be like my skin was all peeled off and I was just standing there with my heart all bloody and thumping in my rib cage for everyone to see.

The depth of love is immeasurable, when you scale it, you will only see and experience it to the degree of your scales.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

strangers were just people he hadn’t become friends with yet.

Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it.

Although a decision is often viewed as the turning point, it is action that creates tangible results.

Cookies. A pin. I'm getting all kinds of gifts today. Madge gives me one more. A kiss on the cheek. Then she's gone and i'm left thinking that maybe Madge really has been my friend all along.

A friend is one who withholds judgment no matter how long you have his unanswered letter.

Before a secret is told one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.

I have a good life, I remind myself. There are plenty of people who love me. They're just not around at the moment.

When wisdom comes, transformation comes. Wisdom makes the difference between the succeeding man and the failing man.

No man's advice can change you unless you speak to yourself. Bible school or seminars can't change you, going to church can't change you except you decide to change.Psalm 139:23 - 24

I've heard it said that people come into our lives for a reasonBringing something we must learnAnd we are led to those who help us most to grow If we let them and we help them in return.

But how to be present to another? Our hearts are so hard. We are so insensitive to the suffering of others. We must pray the Holy Spirit to change our hearts of stone into hearts of flesh so that we may give life, for love is giving of life and liberty. By our confidence in another we can bring forth new aspirations and a taste for life in him. We can help the miserable person to live, to progress and to grow. And he will only begin to want to live when he has been told by our gestures, words, the tone of our voice, our look, our whole being that it is important that he live.

Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?

It is easy to make friends.But, it is tough to honor that friendship with'em.If you find those people,hold on to them.If you don't,move on.

You will fall short of achieving your goals if your focus is fragmented and your attention, energy, and concentration diversified.

Alice couldn’t explain why, exactly, but she knew now that things had changed between them. Oliver had become her friend in an absolute, uncomplicated way. She was done fighting him, and he was done lying to her.

You can never forget the past unless you face up to it.

Love your friends with your eyes closed, but love your enemies with both eyes open.

A common vision can unite people of very different temperaments.

If you never listen, you can't see. The devil has got so many people so disconnected that they cannot even listen or even sense when the Lord is speaking.

Family is not limited by blood or marriage. It's limited to love and bond to one another in one's heart

Friends are the sunshine of life.

Expose human ties for what they really are and you are most likely to find the worst forms of betrayal staring back at you.

In the mainstream, with its illusion of unlimited relational possibilities, we can counter dissatisfaction in relationships by simply moving on in search of the "right people." But community...demands we cultivate friendships with people we might not choose ordinarily. Founding friendship on commitment rather than "chemistry" often requires adjustment...At the end of the day, however, we have found that any loss of chemistry in relationships is more than made up for with gains in meaning.

Acquaintances are numerous. Friends are few. Enemies many.

Your friends love you for who you are. Your family loves you for what you are.

I think that real friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds.

Sons, any man who is considered a success in life owes a lot to society. We have been very blessed, my dear sons. We have to show our appreciation to our society for making that possible. A time will come when you will meet other Kamerunians who share the same vision for this land. I am advising you to make them partners in our common goals when that time comes. We shouldn’t shy away from playing a formidable role in financing that political force that shall emerge. We must use our influence to ensure that it succeeds.

How, and when shall these things come to pass? wherefore are our years few and evil?

It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudo-simplicities of brutal directness.

Both within the family and without our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to become.

There is nothing to me but you. I know it’s pathetic but, oh darling, it’s true.

The greatest gift of life is friendship and I have received it.

Do you miss her?I blinked. Did I what? This was my best friend since preschool we were talking tabout, tthe girl whose snack and math homework I’d shared since before I had tmemorized my town phone number, who’d buried her cold, annoying little feet tunderneath me tduring ta thousand different movie nights and showed tme how to use ta tampon. She’d grown tup in my kitchen, she was my shadow-tself—or I was hers— and Sawyer twanted tto know if I missed her? What the hell kind of question was that?

Only trials can bring you triumph and only obstacles can bring you miracle.

The survival rate of your passion depends on the kind of person that leads you!

Most people are willing to promise you a lot. A few are those who can promise you a little, just as much as they can.

The person whom you really, really love may not be here anymore. And you might be feeling lonely, but, there are people in this world who really, really love you, so shouldn't that equal it all out? So, please don't ever think that you're alone. I'll be watching over you. I'll always be watching over you. I promise to always watch over you. You're not alone.

More or less we are all Selfish. When it's come to Friendship, I do think that fish cant jump onto the ship!

A positive attitude from you tends to produce a positive attitude toward you.

I felt tears pricking inside my eyelids. Maybe I came first With Oliver.

...his jaw tightening and his eyes closed on the tears. “I believe you. It’s okay because I understand and I believe you.

You get out of hell one step at a time." -- Abbie Sullivan, "Cinderella Shoots the Moon.

We were more alike than any of the others, neither of us quite human and both hated by the two species we drifted between.

Depending on each other and facing the difficulties that go with it takes a lot more effort than living on your own, separated from the rest of the world. Loving each other, hurting each other, over and over, until our death. All those things that seem so normal are actually incredibly difficult. To accomplish a normal life might be an achievement as great as writing a book that goes down in history!

The sea never dries for it has so many friends.

Character builds slowly but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

A nice warm shower, a cup of tea, and a caring ear may be all you need to warm your heart.

It's interesting how much you can tell about someone from their friends.

It’s even more awkward when we’re face to face with people. It used to be exciting to make plans with friends because you could sit and catch up and talk about what’s been going on in your lives. Now when you see someone there’s nothing left to say. You’ve already seen the pictures from their trip to Rio on Facebook. You’ve read their tweets about the latest diet they’re on. And they already texted you about the pregnancy scare. So you end up just sitting and staring at each other until you both start texting other people.

I should send my bees ashore for you, upon my sacred honour.

Love is a powerful thing. More powerful, even, than money.

Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.