We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.
Interpretation
True friendship is vital for a secure future, reminding us of its importance can help ensure our own well-being.
Henry A. Kissinger emphasizes the significance of friendship in shaping our future. While we may not have control over our friends' destinies, acknowledging and valuing these relationships can provide us with a stronger foundation and support system, ultimately contributing to our own future successes and security.
In practice
This quote can be shared at a gathering to remind friends of their importance in our lives.
Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. History is a tale of efforts that failed, or aspirations that werenβt realized. So, as a historian, one has to live with a sense of the inevitability of tragedy.
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.
What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify.
Friendship is not something you can learn in college or some learning institution, no one knows how to become friends you just become but if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship you haven't learned anything
If you are a friend, why do you bite me so hard? If an enemy, why do you fawn on me?
Robert Mapplethorpe, I met in 1967. He was a student at Pratt, though even as a student a fully formed artist. We went through many things in our life together. He became my loved one, then my best friend.
When I went to San Francisco in that cold late spring of 1967, I did not even know what I wanted to find out, and so I just stayed around a while and made a few friends.
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
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