Oh the comfort

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.

~Dinah Craik

May your home

May your home always be too small to hold all your friends.
God is good, but never dance
in a small boat.

~an old Irish saying

'Tis better

'Tis better to buy a small bouquet
And give to your friend this very day,
Than a bushel of roses white and red
To lay on his coffin after he's dead.

~an old Irish saying

If an enemy has alliances

“If an enemy has alliances, the problem is grave and the enemy’s position strong; if he has no alliances, the problem is minor and the enemy’s position weak.”

– Sun Tzu

Go back, Sam

Frodo: Go back, Sam. I'm going to Mordor alone.
Sam: Of course you are. And I'm coming with you.

~Frodo and Sam, Lord of the Rings

We be nice

We be nice to them, if they be nice to us.

~Gollum, The Lord of the Rings

For as long as I can remember

"For as long as I can remember, people have liked to talk to me. You.......kind of how somebody says something to you...........it doesn't have to mean so much. It's just that it opens a door for you, and you can see into a room that you couldn't see into before. It doesn't really matter how you got there. The important part is...you're seeing something new and different."

~Allie Keys, Stephen Spielberg's "Taken"

Each friend

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive,and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."

~Anais Nin

Don't

Don't look down on anyone unless you are helping them up.

~Jesse Jackson

Never

Never above you
Never below you
But always with you.

~Ruth Rose

The only comfort

The only comfort comes in thinking about how nice it was to know them, and how nice it was to brush against goodness for a season.



~Real Live Preacher

Please

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

~Edna St. Vincent Millay

Oh, the comfort

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

~George Eliot

When we honestly

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

~Henri Nouwen

One may have

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.

~Vincent Van Gogh

God be

God be between you and harm in
all the empty places you walk.

~Blessing of the 18th Egyptian Dynasty

We can see

We can see our reflection in water only when we bend down close to it; and the heart of one, too, must lean down to the heart of others; then it will se itself within those hearts.

~Hasidic Proverb

Everything begins

Everything begins with loving kindness towards oneself, which in turn becomes loving kindness to others.

~Pema Chödrön

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Hold

Hold a true friend with both hands.

~Nigerian Proverb

Each friend

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

~Anais Nin