Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief
Being in a relationship, that's something you choose. Being friends, that's just something you are. [But] I do pick you. We've been friends too long to pick, but if we could pick, I'd pick you.
Colpo di fulmine. The thunderbolt, as Italians call it. When love strikes someone like lightning, so powerful and intense it can’t be denied. It’s beautiful and messy, cracking a chest open and spilling their soul out for the world to see. It turns a person inside out, and there’s no going back from it. Once the thunderbolt hits, your life is irrevocably changed.
True friends are like diamonds – bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
You had to know a person well to make them laugh like that.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.
A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.
Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.
We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.
We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Two a.m.' He swallowed, then said, "You know. The person you can call at two a.m. and, no matter what, you can count on them. Even if they're asleep or it's cold or you need to be bailed out of jail...they'll come for you. It's like, the highest level of friendship.
Sam and Patrick looked at me. And I looked at them. And I think they knew. Not anything specific really. They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend.
If you care about somebody, you should want them to be happy. Even if you wind up being left out.
Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts. -Maggie
You think I'm a fool?" demanded Harry. "No, I think you're like James," said Lupin, "who would have regarded it as the height of dishonor to mistrust his friends.
Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.