#friend

I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#had #health #high #i #loved

Smile at people everywhere you go. Don’t just give them one of those half-smirk/head nod things. Raise your eyebrows, show those teeth, and chuckle while you smile. Next time you’re at the store, give a full-hearted smile to at least three complete strangers. You’ll be amazed at what this does for them and for you. ↗

— Dan Pearce

#confidence #friendliness #making-friends #self-esteem #self-worth

When you do talk to people, share what you are. Stop focusing on all the things that you aren’t. Stop focusing on all of the physical features that you think people won’t like about you. Stop focusing on your inabilities or lack of talent. Instead, focus on those physical features that you know people already love about you. Focus on your abilities and the talents that you do have. You have been blessed with all of the above, and that makes you worth getting to know in my book. ↗

— Dan Pearce

#confidence #friendliness #making-friends #self-esteem #self-worth

A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#friendship #age

Strangers he gulls, but friends make fun of him. ↗

— Phaedrus

#fun #him #make #strangers

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#absent #better #blots #friends #heart

It sounds cliche, but success is your friends, your family, what you do, and if you're happy when you wake up. ↗

— Michael Pitt

#family #friends #happy #sounds #success

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends. ↗

— Plutarch

#balance #friends #just #only #prosperity

When I was twenty-two it was a lot harder to get hurt by women. It was easier for me to, you know, cheat on a girlfriend. I can't lie like that anymore. ↗

— Matt Dillon

#cheat #easier #get #girlfriend #harder

Friendship has its illusions no less than love. ↗

— Stendhal

#illusions #less #love #than