#so

I failed eating, failed drinking, failed not cutting myself into shreds. Failed friendship. Failed sisterhood and daughterhood. Failed mirrors and scales and phone calls. Good thing I'm stable. ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

#friendship

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#annoy #anything #appropriate #asking #friend

He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good or Evil unless he thought them into being. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#philosophy #death

I know what it's like to be in one place and dream of another. I also know what it's like to feel that nostalgia is a fairly useless thing because it is stasis. ↗

— Mira Nair

#another #because #dream #fairly #feel

In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits. ↗

— John Naisbitt

#growing #information #mere #people #prime

Soulmate" is an overused term, but a true soul connection is very rare, and very real. ↗

— Hilary Duff

#love #soul #soulmate #friendship

The man lying on the sofa seemed friendly. But how friendly could he really be if he was a liar?
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— Jarod Kintz

#friendship #liar #lying #man #paradox

We're reaching for death on the end of a candle We're trying for something that's already found us ↗

— Jim Morrison

#song-lyrics #death

The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger. ↗

— Henry Walter Bates

#display #ground #monkey #poor #quietly

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