#friendships

If I'm among men who don't agree at all with my nature, I will hardly be able to accommodate myself to them without greatly changing myself. A free man who lives among the ignorant strives as far as he can to avoid their favors. A free man acts honestly, not deceptively. Only free man are genuinely useful to one another and can form true friendships. And it's absolutely permissible, by the highest right of Nature, for everyone to employ clear reason to determine how to live in a way that will allow him to flourish. ↗

— Irvin D. Yalom

#irvin-yalom #spinoza #true-self #change

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off. ↗

— Saint Francis de Sales

#begun #broken #friendships #never #off

These dudes were 30 years old, and they would compete about getting the best chick. That came before their friendships. Some of them treat women like they're objects. I never felt like that. ↗

— Brian Welch

#before #best #came #chick #compete

So I really did stop and change what I saw I was about, and really try to put that principle into play as the center of everything - my friendships, my marriage, my career, my family, my way of being in the world. And that changed everything for me. ↗

— Kathy Mattea

#being #career #center #change #changed

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 there is no fate and our interactions depend on such a complex system of chance encounters, what potentially important connections do we fail to make? What life changing relationships or passionate and lasting love affairs are lost to chance? ↗

— Simon Pegg

#fate #friendships #love #memoir #change

Friendships are forgotten when the game begins. ↗

— Alvin Dark

#forgotten #friendships #game

There have been some friendships lost over this. That's the most difficult for me. I find it very uncomfortable to know that I was at one time close friends with someone, and because of jealousies and misunderstandings and so on, these friendships have dissolved. ↗

— Donald Johanson

#been #close #close friends #difficult #dissolved

Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best. ↗

— Joseph Parry

#change #friendships #stood #surely #test

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