Henry David Thoreau Quotes

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Usually, you don't have commitment promises in a friendship. Usually, it just grows.

I think in order to really create something special, it has to be built on some foundation. And I think friendship is a good foundation you could always tap back on if you don't agree. So for me, it's not dating, it's more so friendship.

Love can happen any moment, anywhere, but I am also a person who believes more in friendship than love, relationships, and affairs.

A friend is someone who knows where all your bodies are buried. Because they're the ones who helped you put them there." And sometimes, if you're really lucky, they help you dig them back up.

What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires, and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.

Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.

Why does this mean so much to you, Jon?" The Prince turned. "Because he's my friend. Because I always know where he stands, and where I stand with him. Because I think he'd die for me and--and I think I'd die for him. Is that enough?

I take friendship very seriously.

This relationship is going to be built on trust.

The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when.

I think friendship is more important than love, but that love that grows out of friendship is the very best of all.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Of all the myriad ways we define love, there is perhaps none more honest and powerful than this: Great love is rooted in great partnership.

I really like one-on-one, rich relationships.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

I need my man to be my homie.

In the family, in interpersonal relationships, even in friendship, faith is tremendously important. If you have a partner who you believe is a good person, then it is your duty to have faith in them until the end, despite the fact that they might have done some bad things. And you have to support and believe in your children.

A relationship to me is never about the romance.

I'm pretty intense when it comes to relationships, platonic ones as well. If I feel a connection with someone, I'm willing to go there.

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

Any friendship or relationship is about a language.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

When trust works out right, it can be absolutely magical.

There are no shortcuts to genuine friendship. Relationships are built over time.