#ip

Is there some lesson on how to be friends? I think what it means is that central to living a life that is good is a life that's forgiving. We're creatures of contact regardless of whether we kiss or we wound. Still, we must come together. Though it may spell destruction, we still ask for more-- since it beats staying dry but so lonely on shore. So we make ourselves open while knowing full well it's essentially saying "please, come pierce my shell. ↗

— David Rakoff

#friendship #inspirational #npr #the-scorpion-and-the-tortoise #this-american-life

and it is hard to let go, to imagine alternatives, but you are bold with unknowing, you are ready to explore. ↗

— Terra Elan McVoy

#growth #loss #love #friendship

It's b******* to think of friendship and romance being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variatons of the same desire to be close. ↗

— David Levithan

#love #romance #friendship

The foundation of adult trust is not "You will never hurt me." It is "I trust myself with whatever you do. ↗

— David Richo

#david-richo #friendship #love #nonfiction #relationships

Friends are how God apologizes for your family."---Mike ↗

— Tom Leveen

#family

We met less than a week ago and in that time I've done nothing but lie and cheat and betray you. I know. But if you give me a chance...all I want is to protect you. To be near you. For as long as I'm able. ↗

— Marissa Meyer

#chances #friendship #intstalove-done-right #lies #love

That's what friends do: they notice things. They're there for each other. They see what parents don't. ↗

— Nina LaCour

#hold-still #friendship

And you, Mom. I loved you. You've asked if i felt and understood that you loved me. of course I did. And you know this. I loved your love because it kept me safe and happy and wanted, and it existed beyond words and hugs and eyes. ↗

— Lisa Genova

#love #mother #family

Life was good. Everything was going right. It was almost scaring him because usually when things were going this well it was the calm before the storm hit. ↗

— Michelle Sutton

#marriage #family

...workplace dynamics are no less complicated or unexpectedly intense than family relations, with only the added difficulty that whereas families are at least well-recognised and sanctioned loci for hysteria reminiscent of scenes from Medea, office life typically proceeds behind a mask of shallow cheerfulness, leaving workers grievously unprepared to handle the fury and sadness continually aroused by their colleagues. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#emotions #families #relationships #work #workplace