friendship
“Mostly you have to look after people like you do children, and some you have to look after like patients in hospital”…’
Fyodor Dostoevsky • The Karamazov Brothers (Oxford World's Classics)
I didn’t confront her again. I even continued being friends with her. I didn’t know what else to do but be friends with her.
Cathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
We must live with our enemies as if they might one day become our friends, and live with our friends as if they might sometime or other become our enemies. LA BRUYÈRE
Notes & Highlights for Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton
Her temperament was distinctly familial to me. She could be me, if I could unzip my skin and release all my fury. If Erin brought out the intellect in me (and my petty envy), Helen brought out what was raw in me.
Cathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
“Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himself.”
Dale Carnegie • How To Win Friends and Influence People
Try leaving a friendly trail of little sparks of gratitude on your daily trips. You will be surprised how they will set small flames of friendship that will be rose beacons on your next visit.
Dale Carnegie • How To Win Friends and Influence People
People are nicer than they look, but you have to go first.
Notes & Highlights for Tools of Titans by Timothy Ferriss
I learned, very gradually, that a friend’s job in these circumstances is not to cheer the person up. It’s to acknowledge the reality of the situation; it’s to hear, respect, and love them; it’s to show them you haven’t given up on them, you haven’t walked away.