Miles Franklin Quotes

An unshared life is not living. He who shares does not lessen, but greatens, his life.

I'm here because the reason I get up each morning, needs me as much as I need her." -Jax Stone

To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived.

A complete need should not exist... love, life in common with loved ones?

We deserve each other, Luis … and I need you just as much as you need me. Hold me.” He steps closer, but hesitates. “If I do, mi chava, I can’t promise I’ll be able to let you go.

You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. You need her, as she needs you.

Everyone is alone and yet nobody can do without other people, not just because they are useful... but also when it comes to happiness.

I am because other people are.

Love is why I came here in the first place.

The human heart will seek to be known, understood, and connected with above all else. If you do not connect, the ones you care about will find someone who will.

You turned your head to look at me. Your eyes looked so big in your face, so mysterious — wide and flickering like a butterfly-wing mask. When you saw me the wails turned to sobs, and then just quieter heaves of your body. I held out my finger through the bars. Then you reached out and curled your fingers around mine, so tight. I knew you recognized me. That was the first time I knew I had a heart inside my body.

Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker... there is no escape... people drag others or lift others up.

Till the first friend dies, we think our ecstasy impersonal, but then discover that he was the cup from which we drank it, itself as yet unknown.

Affection is the most important thing. And the quality of affection - with your friends, your lovers, your family. But particularly for your own generation.

I did not need to know if he could love me. I needed to know if he could need me.

How could anyone survive even a single day, if he didn't feel as if he was, in some little great way, needed?

In the end, it doesn’t matter how well we have performed or what we have accomplished—a life without heart is not worth living.

Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun.

Giving is a miracle that can transform the heaviest of hearts. Two people, who moments before lived in separate worlds of private concerns, suddenly meet each other over a simple act of sharing. The world expands, a moment of goodness is created, and something new comes into being where before there was nothing... But true giving is not an economic exchange; it is a generative act. It does not subtract from what we have; it multiplies the effect we can have in the world.

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

Love is the fundamental building block of all human relationships. It will greatly impact our values and morals. I am also convinced that love is the most important ingredient in the single 's search for meaning.

The ultimate quality of your life is not in your resume, but in the minds and hearts of those you mean something to because you gave yourself to them.

Without love, there is no reason to know anyone, for love will in the end connect us to our neighbors, our children and our hearts.

we love as soon as we learn to distinguish a separate 'you' and 'me.' Love is our attempt to assuage the terror and isolation of that separateness.

Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.