Enduring Connections Quotes

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

I think that friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds.

Intimate, loving, and enduring relationships with our family and close friends will be among the sources of the deepest joy in our lives.

That's because you're interpreting it the wrong way. I didn't mean it as a wistful, overdramatic declaration. I mean that the love I felt for him was huge and real, and, while painful, it forever changed me as a person, in the same way that being your brother reflects and changes how I evolve, and vice versa. The important people in our lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart. There's no getting over that.

The bonds of friendship that I forged in my college days are still going strong.

Family is the one thing that is definitely not disposable.

Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever.

Betty inhales sharply, 'It's just I thought I had lost you forever.' Oh, Betty, don't you know there's no such thing as forever?

Some relationships aren't meant to last forever. Some friends aren't meant to last forever. But certain ones will.

On certain movies, you make friends that end up being your friends for the rest of your life. Those are the ones that are the most special.

No book ever ends, when it's full of your friends.

Stick to the basics, hold on to your family and friends - they will never go out of fashion.

It's so hard getting rid of something that means something to you, as many of the pieces on our site do for me.

Everything goes away except your family.

I have met friends that I will stay connected to for the rest of my life.

Friendship cant end just because you change your life.

I'm fiercely loyal to my friends, and I really cherish my friendships.

You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.

I also appreciate the lasting friendships I've made while working with our great sponsors through the years, including Miller Lite, Shell and Dodge.

You don't have to have anything in common with people you've known since you were five. With old friends, you've got your whole life in common.

I have lifelong friends. My oldest friend, Herbie, has been a friend since I was 9. I've had bonds for over 50 years with people.

It is important for us also to cultivate in our own family a sense that we belong together eternally, that whatever changes outside our home, there are fundamental aspects of our relationship which will never change.

The affections are immortal! They are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations.

Red roses for young lovers. French beans for longstanding relationships

I've had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people - you could almost call them marriages, even though I didn't marry. But it was costly.