"Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment. "
- Haruki Murakami
"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"
- Abraham Lincoln
"People come, people go – they’ll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their story and you start up again..."
- Nicholas Sparks
"I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to b..."
- Simone de Beauvoir
"Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces..."
- Paulo Coelho
"If you hang out with chickens, you're going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you're going to fly."
- Steve Maraboli
"How would your life be different if…You walked away from gossip and verbal defamation? Let today be the day…You speak only the good you know of other people and encourage others to do the same."
"Life is painful and messed up. It gets complicated at the worst of times, and sometimes you have no idea where to go or what to do. Lots of times people just let themselves get lost, dropping into a w..."
- Alysha Speer
"What do you most value in your friends?Their continued existence."
- Christopher Hitchens
"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose."
- Tehyi Hsieh