Pete Doherty Quotes

I have this rule now that I keep people around me who I enjoy being with when I'm sober.

I like to think that as I get older I'm getting better at spending time with people who have qualities that make them worth spending time with.

Keep in mind that to avoid loneliness, many people need both a social circle and an intimate attachment. Having just one of two may still leave you feeling lonely.

People are really happier with friends than they are with their families or their spouse or their child.

Most human beings are quite likeable if you do not see too much of them.

Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways.

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

I don't spend a lot of time with anybody.

My theme is, 'The spirit of friendship is the balance of life.' Not money. Not the World Series. It's friendship. The relationships I have with people, that's enough to keep me happy.

Some time ago, I made a basic decision about the way in which I was going to live the little of life available to me The idea was to place myself in the presence of only those people who give off the warm, friendly vibrations which soothe the coating on my nerves. Life never was long enough to provide time for enemies.

I want to spend time with family and friends who make me happy and don't try to hurt me or my family.

I love visiting my friends because it makes me feel normal.

Love, friendship, networking - these are all critical connections and the foundation of a healthy, happy life.

I think it's good to surround yourself with good people.

One's capacity for friendship, which can be developed, is basic to one's capacity for happiness.

A relationship should be based on friendship. I remember somebody telling me that when I was younger and I just thought, you know, stupid people, with that rubbish. But now I see that that is so important.

Imagine if you had access to data that allowed you to rank on a scale of overall happiness which people in your life made you the happiest. … Would you make more time for those people?

I stood under the awning for a moment, but finally I decided that being in a bad mood with your friends beats being in a bad mood without them.

Surround yourself with love, not friends.

I really love to be with people. It's nice, that. To have achieved sudden intimacy with strangers is perhaps the most human thing you can do. We all love our friends and families, as much as we hate them. When you can achieve intimacy with strangers, it's very exciting and heartening.

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

I suppose, the natural outgrowth about writing about two friends, it becomes about their friendship, and the complexities of it, and the way personality plays off each other, and what they each like to do, separately and together.

I love spending time with my friends and family. The simplest things in life give me the most pleasure: cooking a good meal, enjoying my friends.

What I've realized over the years is that I have some pretty good friends.

To me, there's no greater reward than being around people you care about and can be present with.