Sustainable Lifelong Bonds

Table of Contents

• Endurance and Timelessness
• Trust and Honesty
• Distance and Connection
• Challenges and Tests
• Friendship as a Journey
• Value and Importance
• Formation and Evolution
• Philosophical Perspectives
• Other

Endurance and Timelessness

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

The lifelong friends, he said. We sometimes wait a lifetime for them.

Friendship lasts for four seasons and more.

Your greatest friendships are those that survive the greatest storms.

Friendships outlive marriages and family. Friendships can make a life wonderful or wasted, worth sacrificing or worth saving. In the Paris-based 7-book Apricot Tree House Mystery Series, Jamie Litton and Ben Foulof choose to save each other because they have learned that friendship is that fragile thread tethering all of us between Heaven and Earth.

Every friendship begins and ends with respect

For many, long-term friendships, rather than family ties, are the foundations for sustainable lives.

Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.

Long friendships are like jewels, polished over time to become beautiful and enduring.

The bond between friends cannot be broken by chance; no interval of time or space can destroy it. Not even death itself can part true friends.

We’ll be friends through jobs and kids and marriages.

Not many friendships last over two lifetimes. I wish we could have made it three.

Trust and Honesty

It’s never the value of water but thirst, it’s never the value of life but death and it’s never about the friendship but trust.

Shifts within friendships happen in imperceptible increments. There is distance, then assurance. Misconjecture, caution, gradual convergence. So much depends on the respect accorded to vulnerability.

When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.

All friendships are negotiations of power.

Since we are mortal, friendships are best kept to a moderate level, rather than sharing the very depths of our souls.

If all persons knew what they said of each other there would not be four friends in the world

I take it as a matter not to be disputed, that if all knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world. This seems proved by the quarrels and disputes caused by the disclosures which are occasionally made.

we know that there can never be any solid friendship between individuals, or union between communities that is worth the name, unless the parties be persuaded of each others honesty

I believe the best friendships are forged with those you can be yourself with.

Distance and Connection

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Friendships - and indeed most relationships - are measured in the closeness of hearts, minds and soul ties... not in the distance of physical miles or even the passing of time.

Lifelong friendship is a fruit of love.

There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound.

It's never long distance between friends.

Those truly linked don’t need correspondence. When they meet again after many years apart, Their friendship is as true as ever.

I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other.

Nothing makes the earth so spacious as to have friends at a distance.

Challenges and Tests

I obviously don’t know the whole story here, but good friendships are durable. They’re meant to survive the gaps and the growing pains.

This isn't going to be pretty. Rules will be broken. Friendships will be tested. And huge risks will be taken. But they're small prices to pay for true love and freedom, right?

This isn’t going to be pretty. Rules will be broken. Friendships will be tested. And huge risks will be taken. But they’re small prices to pay for true love and freedom, right?

I cannot quantify the physics of friendships and do not know exactly how much intense pressure can be applied before these glittery, brittle bonds break.

Friendships can go only so far.

Friendship as a Journey

I like to think of friends as ships on the ocean, that's why we call them friendships.

Friendships sail like any other ship... left unattended, it will drift away

Friendship: A ship big enough for two in fair weather, but only one in foul.

Friends are an intersection. A route back to the world.

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

If you can ride through Texas with somebody, which is 700 miles of just straight, flat freeway riding, then you can be friends with them forever.

There's a joke that, if you can ride through Texas with somebody, which is 700 miles of just straight, flat freeway riding, then you can be friends with them forever.

Value and Importance

Who we choose to befriend symbolizes the strange dichotomy of our world. We're all snails living on the razor's edge.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other

It is still a fact that our common frontier grows stronger every year, defended only by friendship.

Friendships are among the most fundamental of human needs.

Our friendships are really the epicenter of our social world and emotional lives.

Formation and Evolution

One’s community of friends and relationships may evolve with time; even seasoned friendships may not last forever.

Despite the company of friendship we still have ourselves to reckon with at the end of the day.

The best relationships develop out of friendships.

Friendships are not made in the blur of life. They are made in the margins.

In more than 10 years, I've formed three real friendships. Mousa Dembele, for example. We've known each other since we were 12, our wives are from Amsterdam, he lives in London and we both have a kid.

Teamwork can build friendships that last a lifetime.

Philosophical Perspectives

In order for our friendships to last, it is better to always have a distance between us.

all ought to be common among friends.

All things are in common among friends.

Friendship is a mysterious and ocean-bottom thing. Who can know the outer ranges of it? Perhaps no human being has ever explored its limits.

Life would be very boring if friends always agreed.

Our actual Friends are but distant relations of those to whom we are pledged.

Friendships are an unforseeable burden.

Other

If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be almost all friendships would be dissolved; the second effect, however, might be excellent, for a world without any friends would be felt to be intolerable, and we should learn to like each other without needing a veil of illusion to conceal from ourselves that we did not think each other absolutely perfect.

Friendship is the best kind of ship.

Close friendships are truly vestiges of our biological heritage.

Who ever talks about a lifelong, intimate friendship expressing itself in the broadest possible range of conversation? If people are really alive and alert it ought to go on and on, prolonging life because there is always something more to be said.

Friendship is greater than the colonial and dominating race ideologies of hundreds of years." -"Some of My Best Friends

Friendship is not about ships—no matter how big and fancy and expensive the yacht is.

We’re all just passing ships; no point forming friendships that won’t last.

True friendships are life-saving bridges over troubled waters.

We live in one world together. It's more important than ever to be friend to all.

Meaningful friendships:

Simple life and peaceful mind are very close friends!

Matters be ended as they be friended.

A perfect, enduring friendship between a couple of freaks

Keeping score, in friendships, is a losing game.

Frienship is eros...without wings

What a thing friendship is - World without end.

What strikes me most about Best Buddies International is the simplicity and magnitude of the mission. Friendship is a simple idea.

Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep'rate friends.

There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes.

Matter of fact, the interesting friendships are the ones that are divergent.

Friendships are forgotten when the game begins.

Will it not be wise to allow the friendship between nations to rest upon deep and permanent things? Irritations of the cuticle must not be confounded with heart failure.

The finest friendships are between those who can do without each other.

The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.

There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.

No nation ever had two better friends than we have. You know who they are? The Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

No nation ever had two better friends that we have. You know who they are? The Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

The friendship that can come to an end, never really began.

A friendship that can end never really began

As long as I have the friendship of the sesasons life will never be a burden to me.

The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.

The better part of one’s life consists of their friendships.

The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships. – Abraham Lincoln.

No, miss, friendship would be a finish.

Better to have two people whose love is true than a whole city of fair-weather friends.

What a thing friendship is – World without end.

It’s never long distance between friends.

I hope that the friendship between the members will always remain.

I've enjoyed a great friendship and relationship and have a tremendous amount of affinity for both the Clintons... and I'd like to keep it that way.

Longevity in friendship is very important and one of the keys to the foundation of a happy life.

It's friendship, friendship, just a perfect blend ship. / When other friendships are soon forgot, ours will still be great.

A friendship that can end never really began.

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