#ip

When I'm in pain I want everyone I love on the island with me, sitting around the fire, getting drunk on coconut milk, banging out a plan. ↗

— Melanie Gideon

#friendship #pain #friendship

You’re like a god from a Greek myth, Saiman. You have no empathy. You have no concept of the world beyond your ego. Wanting something gives you an automatic right to obtain it by whatever means necessary with no regard to the damage it may do. I would be careful if I were you. Friends and objects of deities’ desires dropped like flies. In the end the gods always ended up miserable and alone." — Kate Daniels ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#ego #empathy #friendship #gods #greek-mythology

Then, whenever I feel the sun on my face, I will think of you, " I told him. "You will always be with me, Bill. Because of all I have felt for you, and all I have learned from you. ↗

— Cornelia Maude Spelman

#friendship #relationships #william-maxwell #friendship

I didn't care if he was a genius or a fucking idiot, he was rotting away, and it wasn't fun to watch. ↗

— Anthony Kiedis

#friendship #hardship #friendship

A friend is more to be longed for than the light; I speak of a genuine one. And wonder not: for it were better for us that the sun should be extinguished, than that we should be deprived of friends; better to live in darkness, than to be without friends ↗

— John Chrysostom

#friendship

Not my finest hour," he says, shaking his head. "You realize you did it for no reason," I say. I tell him about talking to my dad and explain that I was crying because of that. "That information would have been useful BEFORE I shoved him in the pool. ↗

— Heather Hepler

#friendship #humor #love #friendship

You are perfect in your own dysfunctional way. And it’s exactly what I want." - Fenn ↗

— Candace Knoebel

#love #love-story #friendship

The best gift we can give other people is our whole selves in truth. By doing so we give them a true and accurate mirror that allows them to see themselves. We also give ourselves the best opportunity to grow. ↗

— A.C. Ping

#friendship

If there is one thing I'd learned about hospitals, it's that they aren't interested in healing you. They are interested in stabilizing you, and then everyone is supposed to move on. They go to stabilize some more people, and you go off to do whatever you do. Healing, if it happens at all, is done on your own, long after the hospital has submitted your final insurance paperwork. ↗

— Eric Nuzum

#health #healthcare #hospitals #friendship

If my words don't flow out of a heart that rests in God's control, sovereignty, then they come out of the heart that seeks control so I can get what I want. ↗

— Mark Driscoll

#sovereignty-of-god #words #friendship