#ip

You know what the secret is? It's so simple. We love one another. We're nice to one another. Do you know how rare that is? - Carmen ↗

— Ann Brashares

#love #friendship

My life just got taken over by my cooking. If you don't have any discipline, which I don't, you can make 10 gallons of chocolate mousse, take a spoonful and another and another, and you won't realize you've eaten like five servings of it. It's just what you do. ↗

— Duff Goldman

#any #chocolate #cooking #discipline #eaten

That's life. Whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you. ↗

— Martin Goldsmith

#foot #life #out #sticks #trip

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#connection #friendship #goethe #inspirational #love

When you get tired of worrying and mourning your horse and trying not to be afraid, tell me and I'll do it for you a while so you can shut your eyes and sleep peaceful. ↗

— Shannon Hale

#friendship

Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition. ↗

— John O'Donohue

#love #friendship

The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#friendship

Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough. ↗

— Elif Shafak

#friendship

Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#cutting #driving #heads #into #must

I lead two totally separate lives. There are times when I have to slip into rock star mode. ↗

— Martin Gore

#into #lead #lives #mode #rock