R. A. Salvatore Quotes

Family is just the people you care about. We can bond with people that we have nothing in common with, even if it's just for a moment.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

I believe in the importance of individuality, but in the midst of grief I also find myself wanting connection - wanting to be reminded that the sadness I feel is not just mine but ours.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too.

I feel like the one insight that's extremely comforting to me about the world is that we all share the same pool of emotion that we draw from.

There are some people who make you feel less lonely.

We need to create areas to come together, where we can be there for each other.

I think that the more of us who take the time to understand how someone else is feeling, the more likely we are to resist alongside them.

All my closest friends are the ones I made while in college or who knew me growing up. They keep me grounded, and I adore that about them.

A friend is one who joyfully sings with you when you are on the mountaintop, and silently walks beside you through the valley.

Please, if one of us cries, let both of us cry. But preferably neither of us.

Love . . . includes fellowship in suffering, in joy and in effort.

Various are the uses of friends, beyond all else in difficulty, but joy also looks for trust that is clear in the eyes.

Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.

I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinner table and talk to them about their mother who has cancer or their child who is struggling in school, and their fears about watching their lives go by, I think we're all the same.

People love to be listened to and represented, and they love it when they feel like you have some of the same problems that they do. Everybody deals with things like romantic difficulties in relationships and death and cancer and abuse.

I guess initially I was amazed that somebody would see something within my work that they could really relate to, but the more it's happened, the more people have come forward, I've really realized that we're all kind of going through the same thing at the same time.

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.

The bonds of love are what connect us to the other side.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

I loved playing Shaun, he's not that different from me.

At least I had that, one guy understood me.