Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one —C. S. Lewis More about this quote Tags: commonality friendship loneliness familiarity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are moments, when you’re getting to know someone, when you realize something deep and buried in you is deep and buried in them, too. It feels like meeting a stranger you’ve known your whole life. —Leah Raeder in Unteachable More about this quote Tags: truth life relationships knowledge resonance familiarity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Another plan I have is World Peace through Formal Introductions. The idea is that everyone in the world would be required to meet everyone else in the world, formally, at least once. You'd have to look the person in the eye, shake hands, repeat their name, and try to remember one outstanding physical characteristic. My theory is, if you knew everyone in the world personally, you'd be less inclined to fight them in a war: "Who? The Malaysians? Are you kidding? I know those people! —George Carlin More about this quote Tags: peace violence intimacy familiarity meeting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry! —Ellen DeGeneres More about this quote Tags: humor memory familiarity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them. —Charles Caleb Colton More about this quote Tags: hate knowledge intimacy familiarity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them. —A. A. Milne More about this quote Tags: familiarity flowers weeds Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The more I traveled, the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. —Shirley MacLaine More about this quote Tags: friends travel familiarity strangers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Familiar acts are beautiful through love. —Percy Bysshe Shelley More about this quote Tags: love familiarity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It all comes down to this: when you recognise your loneliness in another person, when you see desperation so familiar to yours written across someone else, you can't just let them leave. —Chloe Rattray in Sacré Noir More about this quote Tags: love loneliness compassion familiarity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Familiarity breeds contempt - and children. —Mark Twain More about this quote Tags: children familiarity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email