Evolving Friendship Quotes

#1. I realized that my time in this place had come to an end; now that my schooldays
were over, I no longer belonged here. I had always been a stranger and, if I
stayed, I would become a stranger to myself as well.

Peter Ackroyd

#2. A soul subject is something that resonates with you deeper than the intellect can reach ... a multi-sensory perception ... a recognition of a new freedom that is calling you.

Gary Zukav

#3. What do those of us who aren't tall, flawlessly sculpted adolescents do?
Answer: Console ourselves with how relative beauty can be ...
Thank heavens for the arousing qualities of zest, intelligence,
wit, curiosity, sweetness, passion, talent and grace.

Diane Ackerman

#4. Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#5. How difficult it is for those of us preoccupied with the humdrum concerns of adulthood to recall how forcefully we were once buffeted by the passions and longings of youth ... 'The older person does not realize the soul-flights of the adolescent ... ' (pg. 185)

Jon Krakauer

#6. Your friendship is quite valuable to me because I know you are not on my side.
Rather you are a free, evolving spirit, allied with other like minds.
Enemy to arrogance and loyal to the bitter truth.

Anonymous

#7. Declare not war against your emotions, or prepare for the inevitable defeat!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#8. It is better to hope than to mope!

Margaret Atwood

#9. A story is only as good as its villain.

Luke Taylor

#10. The goal of the spiritual activist is to find inner peace even in externally chaotic circumstances.

Marianne Williamson

#11. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk.

Mary McCarthy

#12. Bailey feels oddly at ease. As though he is closer to the ground, but taller at the same time.

Erin Morgenstern