friendship
People are nicer than they look, but you have to go first.
Notes & Highlights for Tools of Titans by Timothy Ferriss
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
But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.
Madeline Miller • CIRCE
“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
“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
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
How the dog knows why it’s kicked, declawed by what it calls friend.
Franny Choi • Floating, Brilliant, Gone
Studies show that people have no problem ignoring strangers’ injuries, but when a friend is insulted, our sense of outrage is enough to overcome the inertia that usually makes protests hard to organize. When Parks’s friends learned about her arrest and the boycott, the social habits of friendship—the natural inclination to help someone we
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