John Green Quotes

I always say that chemistry is something impossible to manufacture. It's either there or it isn't. The fact that you're friends doesn't necessarily equate to great chemistry.

Perhaps what makes friendship and love exciting is the continuing discovery of another personality.

I love my relationship with Coach Vermeil because it is one of the few genuine relationships that I have.

There's a difference between good chemistry and a bond. Chemistry is something you have with somebody you meet - or you don't. It's an intangible. It may be superficial. It's much harder to put your finger on than a bond.

A man becomes a friend whenever being loved he loves in return.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

They were lovebirds. They entertained each other endlessly with little gifts: sights worth seeing out the plane window, amusing or instructive bits from things they read, random recollections of times gone by. They were, I think, a flawless example of what Bokonon calls a duprass, which is a karass composed of only two persons.

He never lets go of Annie's hand. Not when they walk, not when they eat. I doubt he ever plans to.

Sometimes chemistry does the trick, and other times, you have to forge that with the people.

Friendship is a strange animal. It only thrives in voluntary enjoyment of each other's company, in the pleasure of nonobligatory connection. I repeat: You owe me nothing.

Friendship is a sacred possession. As air, water and sunshine to flowers, trees and verdure, so smiles, sympathy and love of friends to the daily life of man. To live, laugh, love one's friends, and be loved by them is to bask in the sunshine of life.

I'd certainly go for a love marriage

Friendship is a relationship, friendliness is a state of your being. You are simply friendly; to whom, that is not the point. . .

Freindshipp is beyond all relations of flesh and blood, because it is less materiall.

Friendship is probably the most common form of love.

The happy man in this life needs friends.

Actually, I think friendship and love are exactly the same thing.

Well, I can't leave Mags behind," says Finnick. "She's one of the few people who actually likes me.

One who's our friend is fond of us; one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend.

Yet friendship, I believe, is essential to intellectuals. It is probably the growth hormone the mind requires as it begins its activity of producing and exchanging ideas. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk. In the course of my history, not love or marriage so much as friendship has promoted growth.

Friendship, if somebody holds out his hand toward you, you've got to reach and take it... There are too many people alone, and if you're lucky enough for somebody to want you as a friend, it's an obligation.

Because I missed being with Prince on that [stadium ], and it's a lesson that sometimes you have to push yourself a little harder for your friends.

You can't treat a romantic relationship the same way you do a business one, by being bossy. It takes tender, compromising, loving tactics. And that's such a different approach.

[Friendship] is a relationship that has no formal shape, there are no rules or obligations or bonds as in marriage or the family, it is held together by neither law nor property nor blood, there is no glue in it but mutual liking. It is therefore rare.

I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.