"There is no reason to make the search for friendship sound like an animal instinct. Friendship does not always come as a result of a search; it can come when we least look for it, just as it denies itself when we pursue it too earnestly and with pathetic eagerness."

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Source : Martin E. Marty (1980). “Friendship”, Tabor Pub

Martin E. Marty

#Friendship Quotes #Animal Quotes #Doe Quotes

“To honor life, we must be willing to grow through what we don't know yet, and outgrow what we know no longer fits us. We must be willing to give in to the process, moment by moment, realizing a new plot may be unfolding.”
“All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.”

Source : Wisława Szymborska (1981). “Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts: Seventy Poems”, p.43, Princeton University Press
“They say men and women can't be friends, but that's not true.”
“The greatest mistake physicians make is that they attempt to cure the body without attempting to cure the mind, yet the mind and the body are one and should not be treated separately!”
“I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.”
“Hey man, Jaws was never my scene, and i don't like Star Wars”
“Teenagers travel in droves, packs, swarms. ... To the librarian, they're a gaggle of geese. To the cook, they're a scourge of locusts. To department stores, they're a big beautiful exaltation of larks ... all lovely and loose and jingly.”
“Cancer is very chaotic.”

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