Ray Bradbury Quotes

I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.

Music can lift the spirit; it can make you cry. Soldiers have marched into battle to music. It's a powerful thing.

To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.

I believe in order to make a friend, you have to be a friend.

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

A journey is best measured in friends, not in miles.

If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.

Dating is pressure and tension. What is a date, really, but a job interview that lasts all night?

I think that happiness is a very strange thing. And we really feel that we have a right to this happiness. But I feel like it's constantly fluctuating, and that you can make yourself happy. I think it's an outlook. Having a positive attitude probably sounds like a corny thing to say, but a positive attitude really helps, and respecting your job really helps, and having the support of your family and friends really helps.

Winning has always meant much to me, but winning friends has meant the most.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

Friendship buys friendship.

There are barbarians who seize this dog, who so prodigiously surpasses man in friendship, and nail him down to a table, and dissect him alive to show you the mezaraic veins... Answer me, Machinist, has Nature really arranged all the springs of feeling in this animal to the end that he might not feel? Has he nerves that he may be incapable of suffering?

Every social need, such as the need for friendship, must be a party to its own satisfaction: I cannot passively find my friend as a ready-made friend; a ready-made human being he may be, but his friendship for me I must help to create by my own active resolve.

There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.

Friendship is probably the most common form of love.

Love, Love, Love. All you need is love. Love is all you need.

He's going to be okay," said Quentin. "He has to. He's Tybalt. You'd be all weird and irritating if he wasn't around." "Weird and irritating?" I raised an eyebrow. "What gives you that idea?" Quentin shrugged. "That's already how you get when he isn't around.

No gift can ever replace the value of being there in person.

Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends

“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”

Security is a kind of death.

Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."

Some people procrastinate so much that all they can do is run around like firefighters all day - putting out fires that should not have gotten started in the first place.

You must feel love within, before you can share it.