The quickest way to be a little bit happier and more engaged in your job is to spend some time thinking about developing closer friendships.
I'd rather trust nine people and have the 10th one stab me in the back. I'd take that fall in order to have those nine friendships or working relationships instead of having none. That's not living.
Lacke: Thank you again for another evening steeped in merriment and friendship.
Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.
Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance: The relationship requires candor that mixes poorly with intimacy.
I found that jazz musicians, possibly more than their classical counterparts, wear long-standing friendships easily and gracefully.
Keep extending hand for friendship. Those alive will grip yours with theirs, while the morally dead will inflate; rubbing their own palms.
You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.
You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities.
Friendship fills your life with the essence of joy and mutual understanding. And some of the best friends in life have more than two legs.
My hates have always occupied my mind much more actively and have given greater spiritual satisfactions than my friendships.
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Life should be full of- Compassion, Peace, Companionship, Honor, Love, Honesty, Joy, Rapture, Euphoria, Friendship, Family, Spiritual Enrichment, Enlightenment, Trust, Truth, Loyalty, Passion, Cultural Enrichment, Unity, Serenity, Zen, Wonder, Respec...
Perhaps her requirements were too great, Or her indulgence for human weakness too small, For her attempts to form a friendship had always Ended in disappointment.
What I'd had with most of my school friends hadn't been friendship at all. That had been the habit of the familiar, the reassurance of the unchanged.
It is proper for people to have friends, friendships without self-interest. Without friends, life is too lonely.
