#friendship

I wrapped my hands around the familiar cup and tried to draw strength from it. It was from Thea's old Moss Rose set, remnant of careful scrimping and saving in her first year of marriage. Yet the mellow old cup now brought me no comfort, only a feeling of helplessness, of time slipping away. Sunday-best dishes gone to everyday and now to mismatched pieces. Like Thea and me ↗

— Lorena McCourtney

#friendship #old-age #age

True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist. ↗

— Kent McCord

#business #fade #friendships #hollywood #insist

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue. ↗

— Alice Duer Miller

#criticize #doing #friends #hold #painful

When Ted Williams was here, inducted into the Hall of Fame 37 years ago, he said he must have earned it, because he didn't win it because of his friendship with the writers. I guess in that way, I'm proud to be in this company that way. ↗

— Eddie Murray

#because #company #earned #fame #friendship

My hates have always occupied my mind much more actively and have given greater spiritual satisfactions than my friendships. ↗

— Westbrook Pegler

#always #friendships #given #greater #hates

You know, maybe we don't need enemies." "Yeah, best friends aree about all I can take. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#enemies-and-friends #friends #friendship #humor #friendship

And in this moment, I realize one reason it's so great to have a best friend is sometimes, like right now, Cal and I are thinking the very same thing. ↗

— Kimberly Willis Holt

#death #friendship #vietnam-war #age

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#age

God did not make this person as I would have made him. He did not give him to me as a brother for me to dominate and control, but in order that I might find above him the Creator. Now the other person, in the freedom with which he was created, becomes the occasion of joy, whereas before he was only a nuisance and an affliction. God does not will that I should fashion the other person according to the image that seems good to me, that is, in my own image; rather in his very freedom from me God made this person in His image. I can never know beforehand how God's image should appear in others. That image always manifests a completely new and unique form that comes solely from God's free and sovereign creation. To me the sight may seem strange, even ungodly. But God creates every man in the likeness of His Son, the Crucified. After all, even that image certainly looked strange and ungodly to me before I grasped it. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#christianity #jesus #spiritual-friendships #the-cross #faith

If you care about somebody, you should want them to be happy. Even if you wind up being left out. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#friendship