Brene Brown Quotes

We discover that all human beings are just like us, so we are able to relate to them more easily. That generates a spirit of friendship in which there is less need to hide what we feel or what we are doing.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence. It must plant itself on the ground, before it vaults overthe moon. I wish it to be a little of a citizen, before it is quite a cherub.

There is a stage with people we love when we are no longer separate from them, but so close in sympathy that we live through them as directly as through ourselves. ... we push back our hair because theirs is in their eyes.

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.

Friendship is one of the greatest gifts a human being can receive. It is a bond beyond common goals, common interests, or common histories. It is a bond stronger than sexual union can create, deeper than a shared fate can solidify, and even more intimate than the bonds of marriage or community. Friendship is being with the other in joy and sorrow, even when we cannot increase the joy or decrease the sorrow. It is a unity of souls that gives nobility and sincerity to love. Friendship makes all of life shine brightly.

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

Friendship needs both confidences and confidence in the other's outstretched hand.

To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship.

In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.

Literary friendship is a sympathy not of manners, but of feelings.

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.

The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.

I think my job is hopefully to connect with people emotionally and to feel less alone or understand things in a certain way.

While eschewing emotion - and its companion, vulnerability - Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy, the 'I feel your pain' connection that sustained Clinton. This connection is the shorthand people use to measure their leaders' intentions. If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

I think everybody wants someone who understands them and is able to compromise and meet them halfway. I mean, it goes both ways, you know?

Some of the choicest blessings of my life have been the close friendships I have experienced over the years. Often, these friendships have been forged in the fires of shared experience.

Whenever people reach out the hand of friendship towards me, I am not going to refuse that hand.