John joseph powell author biography templates

“Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual.

You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

“It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.”
― John Joseph Powell, The Secret of Staying in Love

“Sometimes loneliness makes the loudest noise.”
― Aaron Ben-Ze'ev

“While we are threading our way through the vagaries of life, our shortage of reciprocity and solidarity may corner us into breaches of culpability.

We can eschew this and kindle a dream of universalism that does not impose i