All Quotes By Tag: Friendship
“Wayne: You wanna know why I really came to find you?Waxilliam: Why?Wayne: I thought of you happy in a comfy bed, resting and relaxing, spending the rest of your life sipping tea and reading papers while people bring you food and maids rub your toes and stuff.Waxilliam: And?Wayne: And I just couldn’t leave you to a fate like that…I’m too good a friend to let a mate of mine die in such a terrible situation.Waxilliam: Comfortable?Wayne: No. Boring.”
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“Ben, if you get pee in my brand-new car, I am going to cut your balls off.”Still peeing, Ben looks over at me smirking. “You´re gonna need a hell of a big knife, bro.”
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“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give values to survival.”
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“The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contradictory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers…of all men to the extent they desire to know. But in fact, this includes only a few, the true friends, as Plato was to Aristotle at the very moment they were disagreeing about the nature of the good…They were absolutely one soul as they looked at the problem. This, according to Plato, is the only real friendship, the only real common good. It is here that the contact people so desperately seek is to be found…This is the meaning of the riddle of the improbable philosopher-kings. They have a true community that is exemplary for all other communities.”
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“Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.”
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“I’m your friend, and friends don’t let friends die.”
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“Do you know where your breakthrough begins? Your breakthrough begins where your excuses ends.”
“Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.”
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“A few said they’d be horses. Most said they’d be some sort of cat. My friend said she’d like to come back as a porcupine. I don’t like crowds, she said. ”
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“Your job is to focus on my personal happiness, she said, & I’ve got big plans, so break time is over. ”
“The old man slowly raised himself from the piano stool, fixed those cheerful blue eyes piercingly and at the same time with unimaginable friendliness upon him, and said: “Making music together is the best way for two people to become friends. There is none easier. That is a fine thing. I hope you and I shall remain friends. Perhaps you too will learn how to make fugues, Joseph.”
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“The three most important words in a relationship are not, ‘I love you,’ but, ‘Tell me more.”
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“The more invested I am in my own ideas about reality, the more those experiences will feel like victimizations rather than the ups and downs of relating. Actually, I believe that the less I conceptualize things that way, the more likely it is that people will want to stay by me, because they will not feel burdened, consciously or unconsciously, by my projections, judgments, entitlements, or unrealistic expectations.”
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“There is no key to open the heart of another – except curiosity.”
“You cannot connect with anyone except through reality.”