Strangers are family you haven't recognize yet
Mitch AlbomRead
When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.
Interpretation
Unity among brothers creates an unbreakable bond.
This quote by Antisthenes emphasizes the power of unity and agreement among siblings. When brothers or close friends come together in harmony, their collective strength surpasses any external obstacles or challenges, symbolizing how unity can create a formidable force in any endeavor.
In practice
In a speech about teamwork during a family reunion.
Strangers are family you haven't recognize yet
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
If you want a friend in Washington, buy a dog.
The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog. He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer; he will lick the wounds and sores that come in encounter with the roughness of the world. When all other friends desert, he remains.
Friendship, then, like the other natural loves, is unable to save itself. In reality, because it is spiritual and therefore faces a subtler enemy, it must, even more wholeheartedly than they, invoke the divine protection if it hopes to remain sweet. For consider how narrow its true path is. Is must not become what the people call a "mutual admiration society"; yet if it is not full of mutual admiration, of Appreciative love, it is not Friendship at all.
When I do retire, I will miss the trips with the team, the jokes with my teammates, the habits: having breakfast with them, playing with them, all the little things.
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