Friendship Quotes

“Happiness can be found in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”.

In Garry Disher’s novel, The Divine Wind, the protagonist, Hartley Penrose, reflects on his life growing up in Broome during World War Two. In many ways, his ‘story’ is about the changing nature of friendships during his teenage years. Friendship plays a significant role in the novel but does not make up the whole story. Love, war, and betrayal however also plays a substantial role in Hart approach towards his peers throughout the novel.

Friendships are important to keep you going in life In Australia 1965 the Vietnamese war was going on and there was a lot of corruption in the country as people were going off to war. As Corrigan was described in the novel Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey it may seem like a city in which friendships are very hard to form. The author tells us how everyone in the town lies and how people didn’t trust each other a lot. There are two friendships that author focuses on; Jeffrey and Charlie, and Laura and Jasper. In the novel Craig describes how friends are important and how lives of these characters would be much different without these friendships.

It is important to choose the right friends, good friends can take you wherever you want to go in life, and the wrong friends can be a disastrous decision. A quote from The Pact sums this up nicely, “Friendship can lift you up, strengthen and empower you, or break you down, weaken and defeat you.” (32) This is why it is so important to surround yourself with positive people, and

As humans we tend to see the success of a person’s accomplishments rather than how it all began, the struggles that person had to experience to get to where they are in the end. What this quote means is that happiness may appear like happiness to a person on the outside looking in, but in reality you do not have a general idea of what that person had to go through for their happiness. The quote is saying we want happiness, stability, passion, and contentment, but no one wants to struggle and live through misery to get there. The success in the end is dull, but the suffrage and challenges are far more

As in “where are you going, where have you been?” the theme they are trying to rule is evil and temptation lead to all things. As Oates is trying to show that hell through the character Arnold Friend, who is the devil, and Connie will be the low self a stem girl who will fall into committing a sin. As the story plays out Arnold Friend is the devil which as he is trying to take Connie and bring her under his wing and kill her. As the story, plays out they give clues that Arnold Friend is indeed the devil by a quote “Connie looked away from Friend’s smile to the car, which was painted so bright it almost hurt her eyes to look at it. It said the name, Arnold Friend”. He refers to her as a friend which is him putting on a show. Though what Carol

Connie does not have any control over what people do to her, however, the criticism she takes from her mother whenever she compares her to her sister June combined with her mother’s insults gives Connie a low self-esteem and insecurity about herself; she thinks she is “less worthy” because of this and makes her think her beauty is everything, that she is nothing without it.

In “Where are you going, where have you been,” Friend (a demon) uses his “forked tongue” to manipulate Connie with his words to slowly convince her that she will ultimately give into him no matter what; even the first words we hear from him allude to the fact that he’s gonna overcome her, “Gonna get you, baby.” (Shmoop Editorial Team) Connie, a naive teenage girl in the 1960’s, has this concept that she will never like Arnold Friend, due to his age and his strange qualities; yet she knows that every single thing that Friend tells her is true, and she gets brainwashed to see Friend as her savior rather than her assailant. When Friend arrives at Connie’s home, Friend continuously plays music; during the 1960’s, “The Sexual Revolution” had begun, and the concept of “free love” was very present (Shmoop Editorial Team). The music was a different type of communication Friend used to lure Connie to him, even though, she felt he was older than her; the music can

After reading Freak the Mighty and participating in this lesson, I have learned a myriad of thoughts/ideas pertaining to friendship. These thoughts and ideas are much more different than they were before. For example, before, I used to think that a friend is someone who liked the same things as me and never disagreed with me. But now, I know that a friend is someone who will be honest with me, who will be there for me all of the time through thick and thin, and who will enjoy my company. This is far from what I accepted as the truth of friendship, and I owe it all to this course to expose me to the true meaning of friendship

This quote spoke to me because sometimes you are just so happy that you just have to sit down and think. It’s the same when you are filled with such sorrow. “I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons:

“Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” –Abraham Lincoln.

Everyday, soldiers had to experience the major horrors of war in Vietnam. These soldiers had nothing but each other which resulted in the creation of many close bonds. One of the main themes of The Things They Carried is friendship. If friendship was utterly left out of the book, there would be virtually nothing to read about. Some paramount examples of friendship would be found in the chapters “The Man I Killed”, “Friends” and “In the Field”. Overall, O’Brien uses this theme to effectively convey the importance of friendships in times of war. The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien which describes the horrors of war in Vietnam, uses cavernous syntax, relatable symbolism and effulgent imagery to impose the exact feelings of the soldiers that experience guilt, fear and madness together during the war.

No matter your size or age friends play a big part in everyone's life shaping and influencing lives. In the fictional novel “Fluke” by Christopher Moore, the main character, Nathan Quinn teams up with his best friend, Clay Demodocus with a group of workers to study on an island what he loves most, why whales sing. Nate quickly catches feelings for his next closest worker, Amy Earhart who later on impacts Nate’s life. Through the power of friendship Nate experiences benefits, struggles and some unexpected friendship. Unexpected friendship moments can impact someone's lives in a great way.

People tend to feel the most happiness in their daily lives rather than happiness over all. For instance, if someone opens the door for you, does something outrageous, tells a funny story or simply reacts kindly to you, you can experience happiness. Laughing at someones joke can cause you to feel happy even for just a moment. Another definition of happiness in our daily lives is self appreciation such as, getting that new raise, getting an A on a test or even getting into the college you want. These examples all cause happiness in different but still rather large ways. We seem to think that happiness is so difficult to come by, we focus so hard on what happiness is that we don't even realize the simple things in life that are truly making a difference. We can become significantly happy without even noticing. Although happiness seems like it’s hard to find it’s not all that difficult. What’s hard to come by is the feeling of genuine happiness ; genuine happiness is what people truly look for.

“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.” -- Denis Waitley