Deep Connections Quotes

Friendship is not a gift, but is the result of hard work.

....for friendships that are acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of character are purchased but are not owned, and at the proper moment they cannot be spent.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

My friends and my family are such a massive part of my life. My kids are everything.

Next to love friendship, in my opinion, is the most valuable thing life has to offer.

You don't get that many people in your life that you can just tell anything to.

Your first family is your blood family and you always be true to that. That means something. But there's another family and that's the kind you go out and find. Maybe even by accident sometimes. And they're as much blood as your first family. Maybe more so, because they don't have to look out for you and they don't have to love you. They choose to.

There are no soul mates. Not in the traditional sense, at least. In my 20s someone told me that each person has not one but 30 soul mates walking the earth. (“Yes,” said a colleague, when I informed him of this, “and I’m trying to sleep with all of them.”) In fact, “soul mate” isn’t a pre-existing condition. It’s an earned title. They’re made over time.

Quench love, and what is left of a man's life but the folding of a few jointed bones and square inches of flesh? Who would call that life?

It's nice that I've grown up with the same friends since I was 12, I have a very close knit set of them... I grew up with a lot of people who a lot of other people regarded as heroes, and no one ever came to me for advice, no one ever came to me for protection, and so I don't ever really think I've been looked at as a hero.

Relationships and trust. This is the bedrock of life.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.

Many thousands of people have had the experience of finding the first friend, and it is none the less a wonder; as great a wonder (pace the novelists) as first love, or even greater.

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.

I love my friends. They're my family.

My love for those I love -- not many -- not very many, but don't I love them so?

Love and loyalty runs deeper than blood.

Talk not of love: thou never knew'st its force.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.

I'm not interested in playing the field and all that stuff because frankly I'm not into frivolous relationships. I've got a couple close relationships with friends, a close relationship with my family, and a close relationship with my guitar. I'll know if the right person comes along, and whatever then - cool - but it's not something I'm seeking out at the moment.

Whatever will happen will happen, but choose your companions with care. Choose them because you like to look at them and you like the sound of their voices, and they have profound secrets in them that you wish to know. In other words, choose them because you love them. Otherwise you will not be able to bear their company for very long.

The love expressed between women is particular and powerful because we have had to love in order to live; love has been our survival.

The ties that bind us are stronger than the occasional stresses that separate us.

I hate how the people who really get you are the ones you can never hold on to for very long. And the ones who don’t understand you at all stick around.