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

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

Love gives without taking
- Erica Jong

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

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

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

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

Love is serene and calm
- 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

Hate generalizes; love is particular.
- Erica Jong

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

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

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

Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
- Erica Jong

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

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

Solitude is considered un-American.
- 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Our opportunity is to Soar our Spirit.
To see Light and Joy in everything.
To spread our wings and fly boldly.
To give thanks for rainbows and butterflies -
our symbols of renewal and rebirth.
To offer daily Thanksgiving - for ourselves, our family,
our friends, our community, for the whole world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I get by with a little help from my friends.
- John Lennon

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

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

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

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

True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous

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

True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When friends stop being frank and useful to each other,
the whole world loses some of its radiance.
- Anatole Broyard

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

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

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

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

Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen

We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

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

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

The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner

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

Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams

Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous

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

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius

In all my ways of seeing - may I use new glasses,
a telescope and a microscope.
And may I always allow myself to see a circumstance
through the tender hearts of my friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

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

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

I no doubt deserved my enemies,
but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle

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

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

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

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

Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
- Anonymous

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

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie