Genuine Bond Quotes

When your love is pure or spiritual, there is no demand, no expectation. There is only the sweetest feeling of spontaneous oneness with the human being or beings concerned.

Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.

Friendship is but a name; fidelity but an empty name.

I've become close with Masoud Esmaeilpour and consider him a friend. We send each other messages from time to time on Instagram, checking in to see how the other is doing. Whenever I see him, he's always a gentleman, giving me tips about my next opponent. There is a tremendous amount of respect in our friendship.

I firmly believe that you can't manufacture chemistry with anyone, let alone a kid.

I simply value Arthur Capel friendship. And even so, he knows very little about me.

All men have one refuge, a good friend, with whom you can weep and know that he does not smile.

I think true love is never blind, / But rather brings an added light; / An inner vision quick to find / The beauties hid from common sight.

What I needed was a connection to life that was real and lasting.

I believe there are only one or two people in the world with whom one can have a true connection. When you've been fortunate enough to marry one of those people, you are reluctant to settle for less. One can have lovers, those are easily found, but true love rarely strikes twice.

But in our experience, man is cheap and friendship wants its deep sense. We affect to dwell with our friends in their absence, but we do not; when deed, word, or letter comes not, they let us go.

The thing about storytelling is it's very stripped down; it's very much at the core of 'I'm a person and I'm just telling you this thing, and I need you to trust me and believe that what I'm saying is true, and if you believe that what I'm saying is true then we are connected to each other.' I think there's something really beautiful about that.

If everybody is a Facebook friend, what is an actual friend?

Ah love, let us be true to one another, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams; so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy nor love nor life.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Love cannot be had for the asking; it comes only as a gift from the heart of another

I answered her spiritually. And that is where Oprah [Winfrey]comes from. She comes from a place of the truth within her. And I think that's why we clicked. And I think that's why we still continue to click.

A friendship that can be ended / didn't ever start

I long for real and true connection. It has been the theme of all the songs in my whole life.

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

That, they knew, was true friendship. And they knew, if you're lucky enough to find it, you hold on to it.

Intimate acquaintance must precede real friendship

There is no such thing as love at first sight, Bryan. There's only sex at first sight.

I want a warm and faithful friend, To cheer the adverse hour; Who ne'er to flatter will descend, Nor bend the knee to power,- A friend to chide me when I'm wrong, My inmost soul to see; And that my friendship prove as strong For him as his for me.

A true friend is someone with whom protocol is no longer necessary.