“Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.”
Emily Giffin (1972) American writer
Source: Something Blue
Source: The Hollows Insider
“Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.”
Emily Giffin (1972) American writer
Source: Something Blue
“We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire.”
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Nous aimons toujours ceux qui nous admirent; et nous n'aimons pas toujours ceux que nous admirons.
Maxim 294.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“We will all go down together—that's what makes us who we are.”
David Gemmell book The King Beyond the Gate
Source: Drenai series, The King Beyond the Gate, Ch. 24
Context: Come back and stand with us, lad. We will all go down together— that's what makes us who we are.
“We are who we are, because of those we choose to love and because of those who love us.”
Kate Mosse book The Winter Ghosts
Variant: And I shall set this last truth down. We are who we are because of those we choose to love and because of those who love us.
Source: The Winter Ghosts
Fred Rogers (1928–2003) American television personality
Commencement Address at Middlebury College May, 2001 http://web.archive.org/web/20030906163501/http://www.middlebury.edu/offices/pubaff/general_info/addresses/Fred_Rogers_2001.htm
“Our chief want in life, is somebody who shall make us do what we can.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Considerations by the Way
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)
Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra
Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), Love has always passed me by
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
2013, Brandenburg Gate Speech (June 2013)