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The vast desire and capacity a woman has for intimate relationships tells us of God's vast desire and capacity for intimate relationships. In fact, this may be The most important thing we ever learn about God--the He yearns for relationship with us. "Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God" (John 17:3). The whole story of the Bible is a love story between God and His people. He yearns for us. He cares. He has a tender heart. ↗

— Stasi Eldredge

#love #relationships #life

If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather. Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#depression #friendship #life #self-help #friendship

the world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#life #love #friendship

That's what I love about Aibileen, she can take the most complicated things in life and wrap them up so small and simple, they'll fit right in your pocket. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#friendship #life #love #problems #friendship

I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. They teach us how to see the world in that sense. They are without artifice; they see it for what it is. I am drawn to that ruthless honesty. ↗

— Mira Nair

#am #artifice #best #children #clothes

Why are you being so mean?" "Friends tell friends the truth." "yeah, but not to hurt, to help. ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

#inspirational #life #friendship

Nothing is more curious and awkward than the relationship of two people who only know each other with their eyes — who meet and observe each other daily, even hourly and who keep up the impression of disinterest either because of morals or because of a mental abnormality. Between them there is listlessness and pent-up curiosity, the hysteria of an unsatisfied, unnaturally suppressed need for communion and also a kind of tense respect. Because man loves and honors man as long as he is not able to judge him, and desire is a product of lacking knowledge. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#life #love #romance #death

Things don't matter, people do ↗

— Rosie Thomas

#life #love #friendship

الصديقان النموذجيان كما زوج من القنافذ,يتعاطفان,و يتعاونان و يتلازمان,و لكن لا يذوبان فى يعضهما لأن كل واحد له درقة من الأشواك تحميه من أن يقتحم عليه الاّخر خصوصيته و سريته و ينتهك وحدانية نفسه و قدسية استقلاله. ↗

— مصطفى محمود

#friendship #life #life-lessons #friendship

Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#disliked #eternal #friendship #gravy #i