Quotes About Distance Friendships

#1. Our society is so fragmented, our family lives so sundered by physical and emotional distance, our friendships so sporadic, our intimacies so 'in-between' things and often so utilitarian, that there are few places where we can feel truly safe.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#2. Life is like a guitar; Tune. Play. Repeat.

Vikrmn

#3. Friendship happens when the distance between the hearts tends to zero.

Amit Ray

#4. Growth does not always lead a business to build on success. All too often it converts a highly successful business into a mediocre large business.

Richard Branson

#5. I like people who can do things

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. The true knowledge is not in the things, but in finding the connections between the things.

Daniel H. Wilson

#7. Having a passive personality, is a soft way to live a dead life.

Omar EL KADMIRI

#8. The Unsuccessful Salesperson says, the other guy has the best territory. The Successful Salesperson says, every territory is the best one. The Unsuccessful Salesperson says, that company will never buy. The Successful Salesperson says, I can make that company buy.

Brian Tracy

#9. You can spare yourself discomfort by keeping your distance, by remaining safely aloof, by maintaining what are largely superficial friendships. But if you do, you will deprive yourselves, and others, of one of the greatest opportunities for learning and for personal growth. - William Bowen

Peter Slevin

#10. When sense has left a head, it should be called a tail.

Idries Shah

#11. A soldier is a killer pardoned.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#12. So it has been, again and again throughout my life, as I form connections with people and then lose them to distance and time. I mourn those losses, even when I know my erstwhile friends are safe and happy among their own kin.

Marie Brennan

#13. Mind-body medicine should not be an 'alternative,' nor should complementary and integrative medicine be something doctors are not exposed to during their training.

Bernie Siegel

#14. It's funny, ma'am, how sometimes you're so sarcastic but it doesn't sting."
"Because of my dimples. Dimples are a get-out-of-jail-free card

Dean Koontz

#15. 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.

Jason Epstein

#16. What matters is what you are holding in your consciousness as to the possibility for your life now.

Karen S. Wylie MA

#17. The [Libyan] rebels this week kind of hinted to the United States that they could use a little help. Right. Like, America would just blunder around the Middle East killing people without all the facts. That doesn't sound like the America I know.

Bill Maher

#18. The Savior encouraged brotherhood. He was not a long-distance leader. He walked and worked with those whom he led. He was not afraid of close friendships. He spent many hours with his disciples, and his relationships with them were intimate.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#19. They say distance makes old friendships fade away. They say with time and distance lovers forget one another. I find it quite the opposite. Distance, time, they all enhance the aroma of every moment two close souls once spent together, they magnify every little shared pleasure.

Carol Vorvain

#20. Health care is vital to all of us some of the time, but public health is vital to all of us all of the time

C. Everett Koop

#21. Friendship is a promise. Made in the heart,
unbreakable by distance,
unchangeable by time.

Unknown

#22. God's Love is UNCONDITIONAL, which means that it has absolutely nothing to do with us. Thankfully, God doesn't love us for who we are, but because of WHO HE IS.

David J. Stewart

#23. Shifts within friendships happen in imperceptible increments. There is distance, then assurance. Misconjecture, caution, gradual convergence. So much depends on the respect accorded to vulnerability.

Gail Jones

#24. Little pieces of advice like that can provide us with months' worth of entertainment.

Mike Shinoda