The Resolute Woman

Category: friends

  • Be cautious with words

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    I confided something to a friend, and, then, I wished I hadn’t said what I said. I was reminded of the poem “Words” by Syliva Plath. Axes After whose stroke the wood rings, And the echoes! Echoes traveling Off from the center like horses. –Joy

  • A state of tolerance

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    “There are few prophets in the world; few sublimely beautiful women; few heroes,” says George Eliot in her novel Adam Bede. “I can’t afford to give all my love and reverence to such rarities: I want a great deal of those feelings for my every-day fellowmen, especially for the few in the foreground…whose faces I…

  • Delighted by flawed people

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    People with character “possess an impressive inner cohesion…get things done…have achieved a certain depth,” says David Brooks in his book The Road to Character. Brooks lists other important qualities that distinguish people with character, but I really like this attribute. “They just seem delighted by the flawed people around them.” –Joy

  • A true refuge

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    I mentioned in another blog post that I am organizing my library and parting with some books that have been friends for decades. In one little book—The Treasure of a Friend by John C. Maxwell, I found a great quote. “True friends are a true refuge.”—Aristotle –Joy

  • Western civilization?

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    When he came to England in the 1930s for talks on Indian self-rule, Mahatma Gandhi was asked what he thought of Western Civilization, says Dr. Sue Johnson in her book Love Sense. “I think it would be a very good idea,” Gandhi replied. “Do we judge (our state of human social development) and organization by…

  • The beauty of differences

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    I found this great quote on a notecard, one that was at the bottom of a pile in an disorganized drawer. “Friendship comes with the beauty of differences and the joy of similarities.” –Joy

  • Joy and well-being

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    Relationships are the strongest single predictor of joy and well-being, says Dr. Sue Johnson in her book Love Sense. “Ever since social scientists started systematically studying happiness, it has been resoundingly clear that deep and stable relationships make for happy and stable individuals.”

  • Someone a little nicer

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    “What’s the best political advice you have ever received?” Michael Duffy asked Barbara Bush, wife of the first President Bush. “Be yourself. Well, maybe someone a little nicer,” answered Barbara Bush in an interview in the June 15, 2015, issue of Time magazine.

  • People who matter stay with us

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    Vivian’s “losses have piled one on another like layers of shale. Even if her mother lived, she would be dead now, the people who adopted her are dead. Her husband is dead. She has no children,” writes Christina Baker Kline in the book The Orphan Train. But Vivian knows “the people who matter in our…

  • Thanks for friends

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    When you’re stuck at home with a broken leg, there’s one thing you need—friends. I have been blessed with friends who have sent me cards and books, who have called and visited and who have cooked dinner for my husband and me. My next door neighbor Jane visits me to put ice on my knee…