In the midst of aches in the joints, anxiety over the payment of bills, concern for the safety of those you love, envy of the rich, fear of robbers, dog-weariness at the end of a...

Authentic community is the sweet aroma of the gifts offered to our Lord on the day of His birth.

That sounds dangerous,’said Jean.’For anyone else, maybe.For Gentlemen Bastards,we,it;s just what we do.’ ‘We?’ ‘We.

Friendship often ends in love. But love in friendship; never.

Your enemies can be your allies and your allies can be your enemies at times.

See” Kayla links her arm through mine, leaving Blake to jostle and race the other guys. “I tell them I can handle my own stuff, but it’s like a mark of pride or something. I’m...

True regret is knowing you missed your only opportunity to be simply a good friend to someone that was exactly like you.

Certo, io voglio che tutti i tuoi sogni si avverino e voglio vederti sorridere, ma solo nella misura in cui io sorrido e solo in proporzione a quanti dei miei sogni si realizzeranno.” Questo è...

You don’t have to apologize for loving someone or wanting a life that no longer fits your blueprint. The beginning phase of reclaiming your life always starts with apologizing to yourself, then apologizing to others...

It is a joy to share good advice. It takes a grateful ear to listen wisely. It’s always up for us to take the right action and fulfilling path that can truly serve for what...

Two a.m.’ He swallowed, then said, “You know. The person you can call at two a.m. and, no matter what, you can count on them. Even if they’re asleep or it’s cold or you need...

When we were that young we invented the world, no one could tell us a thing.

But re-reading Voss also demonstrates again that although White wasn’t ‘a nice man’, and indeed was—perhaps rightly—scathingly dismissive of my and other Australian writers’ work and origins unless they were his friends, he was a...

…we can say we love each other if my life is better because you’re in it and your life is better because I’m in it.

My retelling of events to Zoe is what grounds them, shapes them, makes them real. If I can’t tell Zoe about kissing Danny Spinelli, it didn’t happen.

Friendship is that form of altruism that takes its strides faster than anything else does.

In the desert I had found a freedom unattainable in civilization; a life unhampered by possessions, since everything that was not a necessity was an encumbrance. I had found too, a comradeship inherent in the...

An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.

Make a new friend by picking up a book and getting to know it!

You break me the hardest, make me the strongest, and keep me the softest.

It’s and old, old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that, too.

That’s what friends are for. The people who aren’t in your life ’cause they’re related, or hot for you. They just love you.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rather than for our own.

And just what would I gain if I go back to that place? I’ll stop at a tree when I like it and I’ll fly when I like it.How I live and where I live...

I want to learn how to speak to anyone at any time and make us both feel a little bit better, lighter, richer, with no commitments of ever meeting again. I want to learn how...

It was nice. Even in high school, I’d mostly had makeshift friends forged by the shared status of outcast. It was rare for me to discuss things so easily to someone outside of my family,...

Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with...

The major mistake people pursue in decision making is to surround themselves with negatively minded people. People who are going nowhere will never take you anywhere; people who are going everywhere can take you somewhere.

I grabbed his hand. He jumped and stared at the connection like something both magical and dangerous had happened.”Do you wanna be friends?” I asked.

You weren’t there.

Echoes can’t read minds. But when you get to know someone very well, you can read their expressions. Pay attention. It will happen to you too.

Because school, no matter how insignificant and annoying it may seem as we get older and can’t wait to get away, sets us on our life’s path. It’s plants ideas for us to thrive upon,...

When the love is gone, tears means nothing.

Oompow,” which I would translate for you but it’s devastatingly embarrassing.

You haven’t any right to expect your friends to be larger than yourself, larger than life. Just take them as they are, cut down to average size, and be glad you have them. To drink...

Encourage, lift and strengthen one another. For the positive energy spread to one will be felt by us all. For we are connected, one and all.

You know power is the best thing in the world because as soon as you have it, everyone is trying to take it from you.No one is ever trying to take your friends away, so...

My letters! all dead paper, mute and white!And yet they seem alive and quiveringAgainst my tremulous hands which loose the stringAnd let them drop down on my knee to-night.This said, — he wished to have...

Meeting a stranger can be totally fleeting and meaningless, for example, unless you enter the individual’s world by finding out at least one thing that is meaningful to his or her life and exchange at...

We’re on a planet. At the same time. In the Universe … Let’s do something Great Together!

It’s b******* to think of friendship and romance being different. They’re not. They’re just variations of the same love. Variatons of the same desire to be close.

That sounds good. But I don’t like to be tied down in one place. I want to be free-to go to where I want, when I want, and be able to think about whatever I...

Our time was most delightfully spent, in mutual Protestations of Freindship, and in vows of unalterable Love, in which we were secure from being interrupted, by intruding and disagreeable Visistors, as Augustus and Sophia had...

Love is friendship set on fire.

I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like...

But how to be present to another? Our hearts are so hard. We are so insensitive to the suffering of others. We must pray the Holy Spirit to change our hearts of stone into hearts...

The problem with having friends was that you might lose them. Or they might get hurt.

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...

Find yourself first…like yourself first…love yourself FIRST…& friendship & love will naturally find YOU.

We approach the house and I wave at Jimmy. “And if he thinks he’s eating with us, he’s got another thing coming,” my dad says.Jimmy approaches us and takes the shopping bags from me, looking...