- “Live like oxygen you’ll have no wall in all living matters.” ― Kangoma Kindembo
- “Compassion does not have to be a face-to-face relationship. Forgiveness does not imply friendship. Understanding why someone has inflicted pain on us is how we set ourselves free of the past, not how we excuse someone’s behaviour so they can continue to abuse us.” ― Vironika Tugaleva
- “Energy does not judge, it merely creates.” ― Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace: Essential Teachings for Enriching Life
- “When faced with contrast, take nothing personally and don’t try to defend yourself. Defending one’s self is a vibrational relative of guilt. People will think what they like; do not feed fuel to the fire by reacting. Simply ask questions for clarity and in response say ‘Is that so?’ Take responsibility for the energy you brought to the situation, acknowledge the illusions without attachment, and move forward. Other people’s opinions are none of your business. Remember that each person is on their own unique path, and the mirror of contrast you hold up to them may be exactly what is necessary for their conscious growth at that time.” ― Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace: Essential Teachings for Enriching Life
- “It’s sometimes easier to help others rather than helping yourself. The trick is to listen to your “self” as a friend. This may be the simplest change you ever make in life, with the biggest impact.” ― Lorii Myers, Make It Happen, A Healthy, Competitive Approach to Achieving Personal Success
- “Some people are so impatient that they ask you for a favour as soon as they are done complimenting you.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- “When the Washington Post telephoned me at home on Valentine’s Day 1989 to ask my opinion about the Ayatollah Khomeini’s fatwah, I felt at once that here was something that completely committed me. It was, if I can phrase it like this, a matter of everything I hated versus everything I loved. In the hate column: dictatorship, religion, stupidity, demagogy, censorship, bullying, and intimidation. In the love column: literature, irony, humor, the individual, and the defense of free expression. Plus, of course, friendship—though I like to think that my reaction would have been the same if I hadn’t known Salman at all. To re-state the premise of the argument again: the theocratic head of a foreign despotism offers money in his own name in order to suborn the murder of a civilian citizen of another country, for the offense of writing a work of fiction. No more root-and-branch challenge to the values of the Enlightenment (on the bicentennial of the fall of the Bastille) or to the First Amendment to the Constitution, could be imagined. President George H.W. Bush, when asked to comment, could only say grudgingly that, as far as he could see, no American interests were involved…” ― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir
- “Well, it seems to me that the best relationships – the ones that last – are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is… suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.” ― Gillian Anderson
- “Read to go?”I remain seated.”Getting up means leaving,” I say.”Yeah,” Rufus says.”LEaving means ding,” I say.”Nah. LEaving means living before you die. Let’s bounce.” ― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End
- “[novan]: bassists are very good with their fingers[novan]: and some of us sing backup vocals, so that means we’re good with our mouths too…(~ IM chat with Novan Chang, 18, bassist)” ― Jess C Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel
- “Of all the things that are beyond my power, I value nothing more highly than to be allowed the honor of entering into bonds of friendship with people who sincerely love truth. For, of things beyond our power, I believe there is nothing in the world which we can love with tranquility except such men.” ― Baruch Spinoza, The Letters
- “You occasionally hear it said that spiritual aspirants should drop everything and set off for the woods, or go to India and wander about on the slopes of the Himalayas. But only through daily contact with people–not trees or brooks or deer–can we train ourselves to be selfless in personal relationships.” ― Eknath Easwaran
- “Because I can’t help doing it,” he said with a shrug. “And hey, if I keep loving you, maybe you’ll eventually crack and love me too. Hell, I’m pretty sure you’re already half in love with me.””I am not! And everything you just said is ridiculous. That’s terrible logic.”Adrian returned to his crossword puzzle. “Well, you can think what you want, so long as you remember-no matter how ordinary things seem between us-I’m still here, still in love with you, and care about you more than any other guy, evil or otherwise, ever will.””I don’t think you’re evil.””See? Things are already looking promising.” ― Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell
- “Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.” ― Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy
- “If you value your relationship or friendship, your ego won’t stand in the way of a meaningful apology.” ― Unarine Ramaru
- “I’m so grateful for those who never gave up on me… Those who spoke TO me instead of ABOUT me… Those who showed me the LOVE I wouldn’t show myself.” ― Steve Maraboli
- “Remembering. Forgetting. I’m not sure which is worse.” ― Kelley Armstrong, The Calling
- “This pause in time, within time … When did I first experience the exquisite sense of surrender that is only possible with another person? The peace of mind one experiences on one’s own, one’s certainty of self in the serenity of solitude, are nothing in comparison to the release and openness and fluency one shares with another, in close companionship …” ― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
- The friendship which can cease has never been real. St. Jerome
- It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. William Blake
- “Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.” ― Sarah Addison Allen, The Peach Keeper
- “He thought of her often, and he missed the companionship they’d once shared and the friendship that had been the bedrock of their marriage at its best.” ― Nicholas Sparks, Safe Haven
- One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention. Clifton Fadiman
- “Without you discovering your true picture, it will be hard to have a glorious future. It is the discovery of what you have inside and the pursuit of it that can guarantee a glorious future” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- One friend in a storm is worth more than a thousand friends in sunshine. Matshona Dhliwayo
- “[Robert’s eulogy at his brother, Ebon C. Ingersoll’s grave. Even the great orator Robert Ingersoll was choked up with tears at the memory of his beloved brother]The record of a generous life runs like a vine around the memory of our dead, and every sweet, unselfish act is now a perfumed flower.Dear Friends: I am going to do that which the dead oft promised he would do for me.The loved and loving brother, husband, father, friend, died where manhood’s morning almost touches noon, and while the shadows still were falling toward the west.He had not passed on life’s highway the stone that marks the highest point; but, being weary for a moment, he lay down by the wayside, and, using his burden for a pillow, fell into that dreamless sleep that kisses down his eyelids still. While yet in love with life and raptured with the world, he passed to silence and pathetic dust.Yet, after all, it may be best, just in the happiest, sunniest hour of all the voyage, while eager winds are kissing every sail, to dash against the unseen rock, and in an instant hear the billows roar above a sunken ship. For whether in mid sea or ‘mong the breakers of the farther shore, a wreck at last must mark the end of each and all. And every life, no matter if its every hour is rich with love and every moment jeweled with a joy, will, at its close, become a tragedy as sad and deep and dark as can be woven of the warp and woof of mystery and death.This brave and tender man in every storm of life was oak and rock; but in the sunshine he was vine and flower. He was the friend of all heroic souls. He climbed the heights, and left all superstitions far below, while on his forehead fell the golden dawning, of the grander day.He loved the beautiful, and was with color, form, and music touched to tears. He sided with the weak, the poor, and wronged, and lovingly gave alms. With loyal heart and with the purest hands he faithfully discharged all public trusts.He was a worshipper of liberty, a friend of the oppressed. A thousand times I have heard him quote these words: ‘For Justice all place a temple, and all season, summer!’ He believed that happiness was the only good, reason the only torch, justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only priest. He added to the sum of human joy; and were every one to whom he did some loving service to bring a blossom to his grave, he would sleep to-night beneath a wilderness of flowers.Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud, and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry. From the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there comes no word; but in the night of death hope sees a star and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.He who sleeps here, when dying, mistaking the approach of death for the return of health, whispered with his latest breath, ‘I am better now.’ Let us believe, in spite of doubts and dogmas, of fears and tears, that these dear words are true of all the countless dead.And now, to you, who have been chosen, from among the many men he loved, to do the last sad office for the dead, we give his sacred dust.Speech cannot contain our love. There was, there is, no gentler, stronger, manlier man.” ― Robert G. Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of Moses
- Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends? Abraham Lincoln
- “You enlighten the light of love in my life.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
- “Friendship warrants giving up the ego, submitting you to the other person, and remaining non-judgemental in the whole process.” ― Girdhar Joshi, Some Mistakes Have No Pardon
- “Some people, some events, make you lose your head. They’re like guillotines, cutting your life in two, the dead and the alive, the before and after.” ― Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark