Stephanie Booth's online ramblings
Seul le temps te dira ce que vaut une amitié.
Only time will tell you what a friendship is worth.
Il est toujours plus facile de condamner que de comprendre.
It is always easier to condemn than to understand.
Some truths are less terrible that the lies that hide them.
Your words will not give your secret away.
Your silence will.
A secret leaks through what you leave unsaid.
As you grow more intimate with somebody, whether a friend or a lover, that person’s dark side takes more importance.
People show their darker shades only to those they feel close to. If you cannot deal with somebody’s dark side, then you will most probably never be able to be really close.
To communicate, people need to be standing on the same ground. Too often, conversation is flawed, because we think we are on the same ground, but the reality is that each person’s ground is different.
By clarifying which parts of our ground are different, we can understand better where and why we disagree.