#ip

Stop looking for the path of least resistance and start running down the path of greatest glory to God and good to others, because that's what Jesus, the Real Man, did. ↗

— Mark Driscoll

#manhood #masculinity #risk #friendship

Someday we're going to look back on every shared smile and smile some more. It's moments like this that make life worth enduring. ↗

— Nadège Richards

#friendship #heart #life #love #relationships

Spilling a Secret What its size, will have varying consequences. It’s not possible to predict what will happen if you open the gunnysack, let the cat escape. A liberated feline might purr on your lap, or it might scratch your eyes out. You can’t tell until you loosen the knot. Do you chance losing a friendship, if that friend’s well-being will only be preserved by betraying sworn-to silence trust? Once the seam is ripped, can it be mended again? And if that proves impossible, will you be okay when it all falls to pieces? ↗

— Ellen Hopkins

#chick-lit #contemporary #novels #poetry #spilling-a-secret

And like a favorite old movie, sometimes the sameness in a friend is what you like the most about her. ↗

— Emily Giffin

#friendship

Gaps don't/just happen./There is a/generative element/inside them,/a welling motion/ as when cold/waters shoulder/up through/warmer oceans./And where gaps/choose to widen,/coordinates warp,/even in places/constant since/the oldest maps. ↗

— Kay Ryan

#inspiration #love #friendship

I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend. ↗

— Graham Greene

#friendship #heartbreak #love #friendship

Kami matamu, Iggy. Kau tak perlu melihat selama kau memiliki kami. ↗

— James Patterson

#friendship

If there’s one thing I learned, it is that blood families can sometimes be the pits; it’s the one you make for yourself that really gives you a home and people to love. ↗

— Joss Stirling

#friendship #love #family

Chaque fois qu'on produit un effet, on se donne un ennemi. Il faut rester médiocre pour être populaire. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#friendship

Why can't we be friends now?" said the other, holding him affectionately. "It's what I want. It's what you want." But the horses didn't want it — they swerved apart: the earth didn't want it, sending up rocks through which riders must pass single file; the temple, the tank, the jail, the palace, the birds, the carrion, the Guest House, that came into view as they emerged from the gap and saw Mau beneath: they didn't want it, they said in their hundred voices "No, not yet," and the sky said "No, not there. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#friendship #friendship