#amity

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#friendship #friendship

A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#calamity #called #clearly #considered #death

Here's what I think. We all want someone to build a fort with. We want somebody to swap crayons with and play hide-and-seek with and live out imaginary stories with. We start out getting that from our family. Then we get it from our friends. And then, for whatever reasons, we get it in our heads that we need to get that feeling- that intimacy- from a single someone else. We call if growing up. But really, when you take sex out of it, what we want is a companion. And we make that so damn hard to find. ↗

— David Levithan

#companionship #friendship #julia #love #family

...we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it. ↗

— Chris Crutcher

#companionship #couples #friendship #love #friendship

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us. ↗

— John Lancaster Spalding

#disturbed #more #than #threatens #us

Anyone who imagines they can work alone winds up surrounded by nothing but rivals, without companions. The fact is, no one ascends alone. ↗

— Lance Armstrong

#companionship #competition #cooperation #success #imagination

Can you tell me where to find Tobias'? I ask. When I imagine his face, affection for him bubbles up inside of me and all I want to do is kiss him. 'Four, I mean. He's so handsome, isn't he? I don't really understand why he likes me so much. I'm not very nice, am I?' -Tris ↗

— Veronica Roth

#amity #candor #dauntless #divergent #eurdite

If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life, it's been the bass line, so subtle you don't notice it until it's missing. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#companionship #life

Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#love #true-love #love

When you know my love, my love will warm you. ↗

— Ruby Dee

#love #love