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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #ship
I was going to say 'my friend Stuart', but I suppose he's not a friend any more. I seem to have lost a number of friends in the last few years. I don't mean that I've fallen out with them, in any dramatic way. We've just decided not to stay in touch. And that's what it's been: a decision, a conscious decision, because it's not difficult to stay in touch with people nowadays, there are so many different ways of doing it. But as you get older, I think that some friendships start to feel increasingly redundant. You just find yourself asking, "What's the point?" And then you stop. ↗
social media isn’t about “marketing” your church or message; it’s about “connecting” with people who want to make your story part of their story. ↗
No matter our size or shape, everyone deserves a safe place in this world." ~ from BIG SMALL DOG, a children's story about overcoming bullying and adversity, and discovering unity and friendship. ↗
#book #children-s-book #dog-story #empowerment #inspirational
This book would not have been made without the tireless mentoring and rare friendship of Christian Bok, Steven Collis and Nicole Markotic. ↗
From the first winter afternoon in the Harvard ball fields, "Oh no--I need you" had become an admission and a clarion call--the tenet of dependency that forms the weft of friendship. We needed each other so that we could count the endless days of forests and flat water, but the real need was soldered by the sadder, harder moments--discord or helplessness or fear--that we dared to expose to each other. It took me years to grasp that this grit and discomfort in any relationship are an indicator of closeness, not it's opposite. ↗
Julie y yo nos tumbamos de espalda bajo una manta gruesa, con montones de ropa de colchón en el piso duro como una roca. Es una sensación extraña, el estar tan completamente rodeado por ella. Su aroma de vida está en todo. Julie está en mí y bajo de mí y junto a mí. Es como si toda la sala estuviera hecha de ella." <3 ↗
The belief that life was hard and often its worst battles were fought in private, that it was possible to walk through fear and come out scorched but still breathing. ↗
#fear #life #friendship
I later realized that this is my view of passion: It is rooted in genuine friendship. Chemistry may be two strangers exchanging smoldering looks—but passion has to be able to survive at least a twenty-minute conversation! ↗
