Tom Rath Quotes

I want to know what it is to build the foundation of the friendship for real, to have my best friend and not because we're just intimate, but because we're mentally intimate. So I'm waiting for that person to come into my life.

In a man, I look for a friend, someone who's equal, with whom I'm comfortable.

Being able to go to someone's house and have dinner with them and their family, being able to go see a movie with them, or go shopping, it makes you really care for someone and hope that they succeed. That means a lot in an on-court relationship. It creates trust.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

I define friendship as a bond that transcends all barriers. When you are ready to expect anything and everything from friends, good, bad or ugly... that's what I call true friendship.

No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.

A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience.

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

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart... Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

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

You don't have to be in love all the time, but you need to be surrounded by people you have a genuine connection with.

You want to be around people who you feel comfortable with and you feel like show you the love that you show to them.

'Orange' is fun. Even when we're doing super-intense, emotional, or physical stuff, we're having fun. We're checking in with each other; we know about each other's lives and know each other's families and relationships. We're really friends.

If you are good friends with someone, you get to know them better and their strengths and weaknesses. You have that respect for each other, and you learn the way one another play.

When you're part of an ensemble and share the screen with so many people, you become close to them because you're hanging out all the time. Obviously you have your ups and downs, but that kind of brings you closer in many ways.

I think compassion is important but love fizzles out eventually. But if there is compassion in a relationship, things can always be worked out.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Friendship is something that is cultivated.

There aren't really many compliments flying around with me and my friends. It's a lot of tough love. But you know, that love is there, and if you need to have a serious conversation, you just gotta wait for the right time to do it.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

Opposition is true friendship.

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.

That's the sign of a good relationship, when you can pick up a phone and it doesn't matter when the last time you spoke was.