C. S. Lewis Quotes

You can only really open yourself up so far to someone that you don't truly love - you keep something back when you know somewhere in your gut that this relationship is going to be forever.

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

I'll date one day if I find someone that I want to let into my life enough.

Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.

Men are wary of me because they know, by listening to my music, that a relationship with me will be quite deep.

The most special relationships, in my experience, are based on a combination of trust and mutual respect.

I'm a very protective person and I'm very, I don't want to say shy, but I tend to fall for people once I've been around them for a minute because I trust them and I'm willing to let them into my world a little more, so I can definitely say I've fallen for a friend.

I simply value Arthur Capel friendship. And even so, he knows very little about me.

Close friendships are one of life's miracles - that a few people get to know you deeply, all your messy or shadowy stuff along with the beauty and sweetness, and they still love you. Not only still love you, but love you more and more deeply. I would do anything for my closest friends, and they would do almost anything for me, and that is about as spiritual a truth as you can get.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Friendship is one of the greatest gifts a human being can receive. It is a bond beyond common goals, common interests, or common histories. It is a bond stronger than sexual union can create, deeper than a shared fate can solidify, and even more intimate than the bonds of marriage or community. Friendship is being with the other in joy and sorrow, even when we cannot increase the joy or decrease the sorrow. It is a unity of souls that gives nobility and sincerity to love. Friendship makes all of life shine brightly.

Ask yourself if you would feel comfortable giving your two best friends a key to your house. If not, look for some new best friends.

For the first time, I saw what was in his heart, and I wondered if he might ever want to look deep enough to see mine.

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

If you are going to be with someone all the time, they need to be your best friend.

We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.

Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.

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

Friendship is love as much as any romance. And like any love, it’s difficult and treacherous and confusing. But in the moment when your knees touch, there’s nothing else you could ever want.

Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.

Real friends require honesty, openness, and even vulnerability. They also require attention and simple acts of kindness.

Why don't you ever use your strength on me?" she said. Because love means renouncing strength," said Franz softly.

If your trusted and people will allow you to share their inner gardern...what better gift?

I think anyone can fall in love, if you're open and you're willing, but the real test is sustaining it after all the excitement has worn off.