friendships

Friendship is something that gets harder to understand, every damn year of my life.Friendship is like a kind of algebra test that nobody passes. In my worst moods, I think the best you can say is that a friend is anyone you don't despise.

Time is too swift for those who fear, too long for those who wait, too short for those who finally find peace, but for those who love, time is eternal. For nothing is ever lost that God wants you to find.

London, December 1915. In the master bedroom (never was the estate agent's epithet more appropriate) of Flat 21, Carlyle Mansions, Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, the distinguished author is dying - slowly, but surely. In Flanders, less than two hundred miles away, other men are dying more quickly, more painfully, more pitifully - young men, mostly, with their lives still before them, blank pages that will never be filled. The author is seventy-two. He has had an interesting and varied life, written many books, travelled widely, enjoyed the arts, moved in society (one winter he dined out 107 times), and owns a charming old house in Rye as well as the lease of this spacious London flat with its fine view of the Thames. He has had deeply rewarding friendships with both men and women. If he has never experienced sexual intercourse, that was by his own choice, unlike the many young men in Flanders who died virgins either for lack of opportunity or because they hoped to marry and were keeping themselves chaste on principle.

Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you.

If it winds up earlier, you should have a movie picked out. This is assuming she isn__ sending you the __et__ go back to my place_ signals. In that case____on__ go there, Bob. Let__ just not go there.

Life experiences shared with a friend will turn into memories to be enjoyed.

Don't hang out with people who are:UngratefulUnhelpfulUnrulyUnkindlyUnlovingUnambitiousUnmotivatedor make you feel...Uncomfortable

Even seasonal situations can bring with them lessons that last a lifetime. If the love doesn__ last, it prepares you for the one that will.

What rubs off on me is hard to rub off. So, I__ better figure out what I rubbing up against.

Betrayal is advancing myself at the expense of the one who I committed myself to advance.

I cannot live without you. For to attempt to do so would be to rob both of us of each other, and that is thievery of the greatest sort.

Vulnerability creates unimaginable space to build each other up, as much as it creates ample room to tear each other down.

Real relationships are the product of time spent, which is why so many of us have so few of them.

people need me. I fillthem. if they can't see mefor awhile the get desperate, they getsick.but if I see them too oftenI get sick. it's hard to feedwithout getting fed.

People being tough with you doesn't mean they're villains.

Jealousy is when their reflection in the mirror that is your progress, is attacked rather than appreciated, begrudged rather than understood.

The interesting thing about text is that, as a medium, it separates you from the person you are speaking with, so you can act differently from how you would in person or even on the phone.

You are too sensitive", says the emotionally immature ignorant without empathy.