#fr

If you think people in your life are normal, then you undoubtedly have not spent any time getting to know the abnormal side of them. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#awkward #family #friends #insane #mental-issues

At That Moment, it seemed the whole world cared what happened to him. All those people were hugging him and petting his hair. Everybody asked if he was okay. It seemed that moment would last forever. That you had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#death

it ain't as hard as picking cotton ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#american #bebop #family #jazz #life

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of acts of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over. ↗

— James Boswell

#heart #kindness #friendship

Friendship's enemy is betrayal. ↗

— Toba Beta

#enemy #friendship #friendship

Dia wrinkled her nose. “Gross. You need a decent girl, one that can straighten you out.” “I don't need to be straightened out,” Carmine said. “Why drown in love when you can have so much fun swimming in lust? ↗

— J.M. Darhower

#love #lust #sex #friendship

The best defenses against the terrors of existence are the homely comforts of love, work, and family life, which connect us to a world that is independent of our wishes yet responsive to our needs. It is through love and work, as Freud noted in a characteristically pungent remark, that we exchange crippling emotional conflict for ordinary unhappiness. Love and work enable each of us to explore a small corner of the world and to come to accept it on its own terms. But our society tends either to devalue small comforts or else to expect too much of them. Our standards of "creative, meaningful work" are too exalted to survive disappointment. Our ideal of "true romance" puts an impossible burden on personal relationships. We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#family

Having fake friends is like hugging cactus. The tighter you hug, the more pain you get. ↗

— Riza Prasetyaningsih

#friendship

All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought they saw across the frontier, this enemy who never attacked that way-if he ever attacked at all; if he was indeed the enemy. ↗

— John Knowles

#life #relationships #friendship

Free love may try to dissolve, and the concubinate to desecrate, the holiest tie, as it pleases; but, for the vast majority of our race, marriage remains the foundation of human society and the family retains its position as the primordial sphere in sociology. ↗

— Abraham Kuyper

#free-love #marriage #one-night-stand #sex #sociology