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Friends love misery, in fact.
by Erica Jong

Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong

Related topics: Friendship Relationship

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong PHOTO

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong

The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong


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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
- Erica Jong

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
Writers, alas, have to be fools in public,
while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
- Erica Jong

Love is serene and calm
- Erica Jong

 

I have accepted fear as a part of life -
specifically the fear of change...
I have gone ahead despite the pounding
in the heart that says: turn back.
- Erica Jong

Love gives without taking
- Erica Jong

Hate generalizes; love is particular.
- Erica Jong

Solitude is considered un-American.
- Erica Jong

Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
- Erica Jong

The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
- Erica Jong

He who can take advice is sometimes superior
to him who can give it.
- Erica Jong

Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
- Erica Jong

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue.
If we have enough friends, we may go on for years,
intending to leave, talking about leaving -
instead of actually getting up and leaving.
- Erica Jong

The trick is not how much pain you feel -
but how much joy you feel
- Erica Jong

Because I loved myself, I was loved.
- Erica Jong

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
- Erica Jong

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
- Erica Jong

We are finally driven to monogamy
not by morality but by exhaustion.
- Erica Jong

If sex and creativity are often
seen by dictators as subversive activities,
it's because they lead to the knowledge
that you own your own body
(and with it your own voice), and that's
the most revolutionary insight of all.
- Erica Jong

Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White

It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich

You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie

Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln

Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of
becoming passionate friends.
- Harville Hendrix

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling

Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
- Jacques Delille

The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving
for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau

We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous

Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous

Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle

No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick

Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille

Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams

Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.

The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale

Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat

It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley

When true friends meet in adverse hour,
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between.
- Sir Walter Scott

Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous

So long as the memory of certain
beloved friends lives in my heart,
I shall say that life is good.
- Helen Keller

Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach

I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me
and remind them of all the promise I see in them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fear makes strangers of people
who would otherwise be friends.
- Shirley MacLaine

Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus

Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous

It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley

I make friends with my fear. I am unstoppable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde

Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida

Friends are like bras:
close to your heart and there for support.
- Anonymous


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