friendship
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
People are nicer than they look, but you have to go first.
Notes & Highlights for Tools of Titans by Timothy Ferriss
“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)
It’s a sad thing when you map the borders of a friendship and find it’s a narrower country than expected.
Randy Ribay • Patron Saints of Nothing
“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
Reverend starets, forgive that last bit about Diderot’s baptism, I made it up myself just now, even as I was telling it to you, it had never entered my head before. I made it up just to please you. I carry on like that, Pyotr Aleksandrovich, so that people’ll like me all the more. But then sometimes I don’t know myself why I do it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky • The Karamazov Brothers (Oxford World's Classics)
How the dog knows why it’s kicked, declawed by what it calls friend.
Franny Choi • Floating, Brilliant, Gone
For instance, when reading a book, if one brings one’s face too close to it, one cannot see anything. In the same way, forming good interpersonal relationships requires a certain degree of distance. When the distance gets too small and people become stuck together, it becomes impossible to even speak to each other. But the distance must not be too ... See more