#age

Build me up and I with you. For we are more one than two. ↗

— Deborah Day

#encourage #friendship #love #support #friendship

The best foundation for relationships to grow, flourish, and succeed is a deep-rooted friendship. ↗

— Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#inspirational #life #love #relationships #friendship

[Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways. ↗

— Timothy Keller

#love #marriage #spirituality #friendship

Perhaps I won't marry then. Instead, you and I shall live as spinsters in a cottage by the sea. We'll burn our corsets, eat chocolate morning, noon and night and grow fat as hedgehogs. ↗

— Alyxandra Harvey

#humor #marriage #friendship

Are not all lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even in the best) of that something which you were born desiring, and which, beneath the flux of other desires and in all the momentary silences between the louder passions, night and day, year by year, from childhood to old age, you are looking for, watching for, listening for? You have never had it. All the things that have ever deeply possessed your soul have been but hints of it -- tantalising glimpses, promises never quite fulfilled, echoes that died away just as they caught your ear. But if it should really become manifest -- if there ever came an echo that did not die away but swelled into the sound itself -- you would know it. Beyond all possibility of doubt you would say "Here at last is the thing I was made for. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#age

In a world full of cynics, critics, and competitors, we get to choose instead to be cheerleaders for others. ↗

— Shelley Hendrix

#friendship #humility #identity #identity-in-christ #relationships

This book would not have been made without the tireless mentoring and rare friendship of Christian Bok, Steven Collis and Nicole Markotic. ↗

— Jordan Scott

#fable #foible #mirror-stage #oughtobiography #stutterance

Sounds like a plan. I owe Tammy a big thank-you.” Ty sighed. “I think I’m too old for this bachelor party crap.” “We’ll be planning yours soon enough.” That was so not appealing, Ty was almost scared. “Let’s just go fishing and call it good.” “Done. ↗

— Erin McCarthy

#friendships #marriage #friendship

Dear Eloisa (said I) there’s no occasion for your crying so much about such a trifle. (for I was willing to make light of it in order to comfort her) I beg you would not mind it – You see it does not vex me in the least; though perhaps I may suffer most from it after all; for I shall not only be obliged to eat up all the Victuals I have dressed already, but must if Henry should recover (which however is not very likely) dress as much for you again; or should he die (as I suppose he will) I shall still have to prepare a Dinner for you whenever you marry any one else. So you see that tho perhaps for the present it may afflict you to think of Henry’s sufferings, yet I dare say he’ll die soon and then his pain will be over and you will be easy, whereas my Trouble will last much longer for work as hard as I may, I am certain that the pantry cannot be cleared in less than a fortnight ↗

— Jane Austen

#cooking #crying #food #grief #jane-austen

I've been thinking. You'd better be my bridesmaid, since you gave me the idea that led to this whole farce. It's a horrible job, I'm sure, so you deserve it. Plus, you're my friend. Will you do it? ↗

— Jayne Bauling

#friend #friendship #marriage #friendship