“Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.”
Source: Letters and Papers from Prison
“Friends are not primarily absorbed in each other.”
Equality (1943)
Context: Friends are not primarily absorbed in each other. It is when we are doing things together that friendship springs up – painting, sailing ships, praying, philosophizing, fighting shoulder to shoulder. Friends look in the same direction. Lovers look at each other — that is, in opposite directions. To transfer bodily all that belongs to one relationship into the other is blundering.
2010s, 2016 Democratic National Convention (2016)
Source: Find Your Why: A Practical Guide for Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team
“We tiptoed around each other like heartbreaking new friends.”
Source: On the Road
“Friends tell each other what nobody else is willing to tell you.”
Source: This Is Gonna Hurt: Music, Photography, And Life Through The Distorted Lens Of Nikki Sixx
