A good friend is my nearest relation.
Belonging to a group can provide the child with a variety of resources that an individual friendship often cannot--a sense of collective participation, experience with organizational roles, and group support in the enterprise of growing up. Groups also pose for the child some of the most acute problems of social life--of inclusion and exclusion, conformity and independence.
Nicole was always there with her door open, her arms open, her ears open - just what you need.
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
Once she was gone, I knelt next to Annabeth and felt her forehead. She was still burning up. "You're cute when you're worried," she muttered. "Your eyebrows get all scrunched together. " "You are not going to die while I owe you a favor," I said. "Why did you take that knife?" "You would've done the same for me. " It was true. I guess we both knew it. Still, I felt like somebody was poking my heart with a cold metal rod.
If you don't have children and you don't have a job, you have time for friendship. . . People who have jobs are not the best friends to have. It's better to be friends with people who are unemployed.
To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived.
I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
To ensure that the self doesn't shrink, to see that it holds on to its volume, memories have to be watered like potted flowers, and the watering calls for regular contact with the witnesses of the past, that is to say, with friends.
A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
I pretty much only wear Lilly Pulitzer ties because my best friend owns the company.
I think the best friendships are those that can stand the test of time, where the friendship is based more on who you are than on what you do or what you have.
Don't build walls and shut people out of your life. To act as if another does not exist is a mean and cruel weapon
The companionship of dead writers is a wonderful form of live friendship.
Yes, we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often. I don't want to lose this happy space where I have found someone who is smart and easy and doesn't bother to check their diary when we arrange to meet.
Sooner mayest thou trust thy pocket to a pickpocket than give loyal friendship to the man who boasts of eyes to the heart never mounts in dew! Only when man weeps he should be alone, not because tears are weak, but they should be secret. Tears are akin to prayer,--Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.