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Don’t make assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.

Happiness is meeting an old friend after a long time and feeling that nothing has changed.

Support your friends. Listen to their ideas. Go to their events. Share their posts. Celebrate in their victories and remind them of their importance after their failures. A little support can go a very long way in someone’s life.

Sitting silently beside a friend who is hurting may be the best gift we can give.

If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather. Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.

Blood makes you related. Loyalty makes you family.

I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’

Relationships begin to weaken, then fail when we stop doing the things that it took to get them in the first place.

It is necessary, and even vital, to set standards for your life and the people you allow in it.

At some point you have to realize that some people can stay in your heart, but not in your life.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

If you want to make a difference in someone’s life, you don’t need to be gorgeous, rich, famous, brilliant, or perfect. You just have to care.

You are not a burden. You HAVE a burden, 
which by definition, is too heavy to carry on your own.

Don’t look for someone who will solve all your problems. Look for someone who won’t let you face them alone.