Martin E. Marty Quotes

Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

The longer I go about living, I see it's the relationship that is most meaningful.

If one is aware and alive, then it is one's relationships that make you live. It makes life worth living.

But I think 'Love, Actually' has a very realistic view of human nature in line with the latest scientific evidence. The opening scene, where Hugh Grant's character talks about the arrivals gate at Heathrow, is about friendship and connection, it's about who we really are as a species.

Life is about relationships, not transactions.

Connection is why we're here; it is what gives purpose and meaning to our lives. The power that connection holds in our lives was confirmed when the main concern about connection emerged as the fear of disconnection; the fear that something we have done or failed to do, something about who we are or where we come from, has made us unlovable and unworthy of connection.

To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves... The modern world in comparison, ignores it.

There is always risk in relationships, but bottom line? The world has no meaning apart from relationships. Some are just messier than others, some are seasonal, others are difficult, and a few are easy, but every one of them is important.

I love my friends. They're my family.

Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience, as often at times of failure as in moments of ecstasy.

I have stayed in touch and connected with many over the years. I am very lucky that way. Some that you don't expect to connect with you will wind up loving. The ones that you look the forward to the most will sometimes let you down.

In the most complete friendship there is always a little empty space, like the space in an egg.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.

Most humbling of all is to comprehend the lifesaving gift that your pit crew of people has been for you, and all the experiences you have shared, the journeys together, the collaborations, births and deaths, divorces, rehab, and vacations, the solidarity you have shown one another. Every so often you realize that without all of them, your life would be barren and pathetic. It would be Death of a Salesman, though with e-mail and texting.

If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky

Be real. Make connections with people. Look them in the eye. Tell them how you feel. Don't be afraid to say what you mean. When you let go of the stuff you hold inside, you'll be amazed at what comes back to you.

Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.

Best friends are important. They're the closest thing to a sister you'll ever have.

It's still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others.

Love is insistent on its own continuation. Every fraction of a second, someone somewhere falls in love, a former enemy becomes a friend, and a newborn baby is born into the world.

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.

You know that family is going to be there for you no matter what. My dad gave me a freakin' kidney! But it's also the families that you create outside of your family. And you really find out what kind of people you're friends with.

A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.

In order for connection to happen, we have to allow ourselves to be seen, really seen.