#friendship

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. ↗

— George MacDonald

#angels #cast #even #flower #friend

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable. ↗

— John D. MacDonald

#dependent #friendships #like #marriages

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. ↗

— Katherine Mansfield

#always #comfort #explain #felt #great

That's a job that it makes a few friendships, but it probably breaks more. ↗

— Michael McKean

#few #friendships #job #makes #more

Friendship is one mind in two bodies. ↗

— Mencius

#bodies #mind #two

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. ↗

— Anais Nin

#arrive #born #each #friend #meeting

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship? ↗

— Anais Nin

#friendship #i #love #overlook #real

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. ↗

— Henri Nouwen

#advice #ask #chosen #cures #find

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares. ↗

— Henri Nouwen

#bereavement #cares #confusion #curing #despair

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. ↗

— Barack Obama

#active #avoid #being #black #carefully