“We don’t exist unless there is someone who can see us existing, what we say has no meaning until someone can understand, while to be surrounded by friends is constantly to have our identity confirmed; their knowledge and care for us have the power to pull us from our numbness”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“Even in darkness it is possible to create light and encourage compassion. That it is possible to feel free inside a prison. That even in exile, friendship exists and can become an anchor. That one instant before dying, man is still immortal.”— Elie Wiesel, amazon.com
“Most of us don’t need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.”— Robert Brault, amazon.com
“shoutout to everyone who doesnt actually have a solid best friend because their best friends have better best friends or because they dont bond enough with people to have best friends or because their ‘best friends’ constantly come and go and it just kinda leaves them feeling vaguely isolated even t…”— Lili May, facebook.com
“A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Nobody can avoid falling in love. They might want to deny it, but friendship is probably the most common form of love.”— Stieg Larsson, amazon.com
“I understand you, and I shall not attempt to make you change your mind… I have told you what I think, and that is all. I shall remain your friend even if you act contrary to my convictions, and I shall help you even if I disagree with you.”— Milan Kundera, amazon.com
“Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life–and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.com
“Real friends were the kind where you pick up where you’d left off, whether it be a week since you’d seen each other or two years.”— Jojo Moyes, amazon.com
“To be someone’s best friend requires a minimum investment of time. More than that, though, it takes emotional energy. Caring about someone deeply is exhausting.”— Malcolm Gladwell, amazon.com
“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of it for anyone else.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.com
“There are a lot of people who will give money or materials, but very few who will give time and affection.”— Daniel Keyes, amazon.com