Precious Imperfect Bonds

Table of Contents

• True Friendship
• Imperfect Yet Precious
• Friendship and Love
• Memories and Shared Experiences
• Support and Growth
• Choosing and Valuing Friendships
• Other

True Friendship

Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love.

Three things in life you will never have to chase: True friends, true love and your destiny!

I understand it, but I don't like it. I wish we could all be together like before: best friends, not heartbroken strangers.

We get relatives by fate, but we make friends by our choice... Life is wonderful when friends are around. - In search of a Soulmate

Friendships, along with love, make life worth living.

Friends, genuine friends, have much more to do with whether we have a warm heart, not money or power.

Above our life we love a steadfast friend.

Relationships are the most important thing in life, and friends are a part of that.

Our friendships – the ones we’re living every day – can stand on their own. They are supportive, enthralling, entirely wonderful, and, often, all we need.

My relationships with my friends are lifelong, solid and unbreakable.

You get to choose the bond of lifelong friendships, of being there for the darkest and happiest of times.

Friendships have been such an important part of my life both emotionally and logistically.

Imperfect Yet Precious

Holding myself to perfectionistic standards, I used to think I had to become lifelong friends with everyone who entered my life. This was exhausting, and I now know it’s not true. I believe the old saying that people come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime.” (127)

Eventually, I developed the discernment to spend energy in friendships that thrive--some I already had and new ones as well. And it didn't take finding perfect women without issues or becoming one myself. My friendships today are with imperfect women like me who have enough self-awareness that they can both give and receive the most important thing in any relationship: grace.

Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.

One is so apt to think of people's affection as a fixed quantity, instead of a sort of moving so with the tide, always going out or coming in but still fundamentally there: and I believe this difficulty in making allowance for the tide is the reason for half the broken friendships.

We’re convalescents. Most of us are people who never learned an art or a trade, not even the art of enjoying life. Since we’re basically averse to prolonged social contact, even the greatest of friends tend to bore us after half an hour; we only long to see them when we think about seeing them, and the best moments we spend with them occur in our dreams.

Friendships aren’t perfect and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.

No one picks a friend for us; we come together by choice. We are not tied together through ceremony or the responsibility to create a son; we tie ourselves together through moments. The spark when we first meet. Laughter and tears shared. Secrets packed away to be treasured, hoarded, and protected. The wonder that someone can be so different from you and yet still understand your heart in a way no one.

I believe with all my heart that the cliches are true, that we are our own best friends and best company, and that if you’re not right for yourself, it’s impossible to be right for anyone.

For me, I just value my friendships so much. I mean, I love my family, too, but my friends - I have a really special connection with my friends.

I think friendships, true friendships, morph as our lives change into what we need them to be. I am very lucky to have some really great friends, who have been there for me during my ups and downs.

I value my friendships and go out of my way to commit time and energy to them.

I realized it's important to have love in your life, it's important to have friendship, it's very important to have mentors and family.

Friendship and Love

Nearly everything I know about love, I've learnt from my long-term friendships with women.

As everyone applauds and sips champagne, I smile back at Rachel, thinking she got it just right. Love and friendship. They are what makes us who we are and what can change us, if we let them.

The best things to hold on to are the memories of friendship and love.

When someone you offer love and support to, appreciates it and offers love and support in return, they become a friend for life. If not, they become a project. All projects, eventually, come to an end.

All the really successful, happy relationships that I know of, the people that are together are friends, anyways.

Friends, lovers, or nothing, we can really only ever be one.

I’ve learnt some Things. Like the way friendship can be just as intense, beautiful and endless as romance. Like the way there’s love everywhere around me – there’s love for my friends, there’s love for my paintings, there’s love for myself.

It is love and friendship, the sanctity and celebration of our relationships, that not only support a good life, but create one. Through friendships, we spark and inspire one another’s ambitions.

Going through something difficult in your life, music, for me, is always a friend and something that helps you to figure things out.

A lot of why I climb is for the friendship, the loyalty and trust, the shared experience of being in that moment.

For me, I just value my friendships so much. I mean, I love my family, too, but my friends - I have a really special connection with my friends.

I realized it's important to have love in your life, it's important to have friendship, it's very important to have mentors and family.

Memories and Shared Experiences

Friends can create our most cherished memories.

Friends are the most important part of your life. Treasure the tears, treasure the laughter, but most importantly, treasure the memories.

The importance of friends few people would be able to recognize some friend comes in our life readily and consequently they goes but life doesn't stop for anyone but only one thing remains that is their memories which cannot be wipe out as you guys always remain in my heart and we are the best

The best friends of our childhoods are the loves of our lives, and they break our hearts in worse ways

It was invaluable to have a dear friend who you have known for over a decade, be a partner in a film like Titanic. To have somebody that talented to work against, who's also your friend and who you know you have the best intentions for and vice versa, and who you intrinsically trust to give you their forthright honest opinion about what we're both doing - all that's something you can't really buy.

The Making of Friends Life is sweet because of the friends we have made And the things which in common we share; We want to live on, not because of ourselves, But because of the ones who would care. It's living and doing for somebody else On that all of life's splendor depends, And the joy of it all, when we count it all up, Is found in the making of friends....

Some of the choicest blessings of my life have been the close friendships I have experienced over the years. Often, these friendships have been forged in the fires of shared experience.

No one picks a friend for us; we come together by choice. We are not tied together through ceremony or the responsibility to create a son; we tie ourselves together through moments. The spark when we first meet. Laughter and tears shared. Secrets packed away to be treasured, hoarded, and protected. The wonder that someone can be so different from you and yet still understand your heart in a way no one.

A lot of why I climb is for the friendship, the loyalty and trust, the shared experience of being in that moment.

Friends make memories...the heart preserves them.

Support and Growth

Never hold resentments for the person who tells you what you need to hear; count them among your truest, most caring, and valuable friends.

Free your friends to make mistakes, to be vulnerable, to have differing points of view, to trigger you and to be loved anyway. Always hold the vision for peace, joy, healing, growth and unconditional love in your relationships.

If an individual applauds your successful accomplishments and helps you out during times of crises, keep him or her in your life. This shows a sign of a true friend , family member or romantic partner.

When spending quality time with friends, freely settle down for deep and meaningful conversations about any topics. This can help you maintain a strong bond with your soulmates.

Yes I value strong friendships on a very deep level, I value these connections because time and time again i will go through heartbreak, I will forget my self worth, I will make mistakes and my world will feel broken beyond repair and to have these special people in your life that will be there to help you pick up the pieces and remind you what makes you special and worth being alive is the most amazing feeling in the world and I would never trade that for anything.

My mum and I have an incredible friendship now after a mixture of pain, honesty, unconditional love and a long break from each other

The friends whom I have are invaluable, and although not numerous they are sufficient for my enjoyment; and the texture of my own mind renders me very indifferent to the rest of the world.

My greatest trials come through those professing to be near and attached friends, who expect things.

While the right friends are near us, we feel that all is well. Our everyday life blossoms suddenly into bright possibilities.

We all need friends with whom we can speak of our deepest concerns, and who do not fear to speak the truth in love to us.

Friendships have been such an important part of my life both emotionally and logistically.

Choosing and Valuing Friendships

I believe with all my heart that the cliches are true, that we are our own best friends and best company, and that if you're not right for yourself, it's impossible to be right for anyone.

Life, Rose well knew, could throw some hard punches at you, but nothing hurt as much as losing a child, or seeing one of your children hurt and suffering. Becoming a parent changed you forever, as nothing else could. Not good or bad fortune. Not friendships. Not even a man or a woman.

If all we've got to look forward to is disloyalty and treachery, why do we even make friends?""Again, human nature. Hoping for the best is what drives us.

Over the course of my life I've had more than my fair share of romantic relationships with wonderful women, many moved on to live happy, healthy, and productive lives, and I'm pleased to say remain dear friends today. Sadly, there are a few who have chosen to rewrite history in an attempt to stay in the spotlight. I guess, as the old saying goes: You can't win 'em all!

Why you were born and why you are living depend entirely on what you are getting out of this world and what you are giving to it. I cannot prove that this is a balance of mathematical perfection, but my own observation of life leads me to the conclusion that there is a very real friendship, both quantitatively and qualitatively, between what you contribute and what you get out of life.

I've always had lots of friends who share my perspective - I guess you could say that I'm a guy who aggressively pursues his happiness.

I have a group of friends in my life, and we all give each other something different. I've known my two closest friends for many years. One is a friend from high school, and the other I met right after college. My deep, deep friends remind me every day of the good parts of my personality.

The greatest friendships that we've built in high school are on this stage. Our support is day in and day out.

I think being compassionate of each other's lives and issues is nonnegotiable when it comes to friendships. We're all going through different stages and issues, and as I get older, I'm trying to lean into that.

I’ve always had lots of friends who share my perspective – I guess you could say that I’m a guy who aggressively pursues his happiness.

My mum and I have an incredible friendship now after a mixture of pain, honesty, unconditional love and a long break from each other.

Other

Friendship is the most important thing in my life. It's rare to have friends like I've got. If I had as great a taste in husbands as I have in friends, what an even better life I would have had!

Forever friends are a treasure chest of understanding and compassion. Cherish them.

You know what? The best thing to mend broken heart is to spend time your friends." (hal.215)

One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made.

If all we've got to look forward to is disloyalty and treachery, why do we even make friends?" "Again, human nature. Hoping for the best is what drives us.

Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships, Language. Sensibility.

I think the hardest thing about my life is that I’ve met so many people all over the world who I love, but they’re not friends with each other.

One is so apt to think of people’s affection as a fixed quantity, instead of a sort of moving so with the tide, always going out or coming in but still fundamentally there: and I believe this difficulty in making allowance for the tide is the reason for half the broken friendships.

We embrace all of our friends from every background.

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