“You will fall in love with your friends. Deep, passionate love. You will create a second family with them, a kind of tribe that makes you feel less vulnerable. Sometimes our families can’t love us all the time. Sometimes we’re born into families who don’t know how to love us properly. They do as muc…”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com
“In fact, I have no real friend but you, and when I am in low spirits, I always think of you. I only wish you were here, that we might again talk together about moving to the country.”— Vincent Van Gogh, amazon.com
“There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.”— Antisthenes, amazon.com
“Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts … good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt. They’re not painful. That’s not just with somebody you want to marry, but it’s with the friends that you choose. It’s with the people you surround yourselve…”— Michelle Obama, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov
“Self-esteem comes from who you have in your life. How you were raised. What you struggled with as a child.”— Halle Berry, etonline.com
“You know, sometimes when you’re too close to someone, it’s hard to see who they really are.”— Kirsten Miller, amazon.com
“Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.”— David Levithan, amazon.com
“Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.”— Karl Marx , goodreads.com
“There are people you meet that you get to know, and then there are people you meet that you already know.”— Colleen Hoover, amazon.com
“Most of us don’t need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.”— Robert Brault, amazon.com
“Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty, your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence and your purpose when you are confused”— Alan Cohen, veteranstoday.com
“I wish friends held hands more often, like the children I see on the streets sometimes. I’m not sure why we have to grow up and get embarrassed about it.”— Stephanie Perkins, amazon.com
“You only really fall apart in front of the people you know can piece you back together.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“He feels an irresistible urge to open his heart, to reveal to his friend the darkest corners of his soul, so that their friendship becomes even closer. Sensitive souls confide in each other at such moments; but sometimes, it may happen that one shrinks in fear from contact with the other.”— Ludwig Tieck, amazon.com
“The world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by.”— Nikki Giovanni, amazon.com
“You only really fall apart in front of the people you know can piece you back together.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“It's shitty I guess. They're my friends. But... everything I want to talk about I can't say to them.”— Kendare Blake, amazon.com
“Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.”— Whitney Otto, amazon.com