"By listening, by caring, by playing you back to yourself, friends ratify your better instincts and endorse your unique worth. Friends validate you."

-- Gail Sheehy

#Friendship Quotes #Caring Quotes #Unique Quotes

“There are so many dreams beyond our nights, and so much sunshine beyond our gray walls. But we can't see it when we stay at home. There is so much sky above our roof. Is the door so old that it won't open, or are we at home because we're afraid of catching a chill?”
“The only victory that counts is the one over yourself.”
“What first stuns the young writer emerging from college is that there is no clear-cut road for him to travel on. He must chop a path in the wilderness of his own soul, a disheartening process, lifelong and lonesome and therefore, of what use graduate work?”
“I'm not insane, sir. I have a finely calibrated sense of acceptable risk.”
“I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected.”
“Candour is the brightest gem of criticism.”
“Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering,”
“Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.”

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