When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
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When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
I sing your restless longing for the statue, your fear of the feelings that await you in the street. I sing the small sea siren who sings to you, riding her bicycle of corals and conches. But above all I sing a common thought that joins us in the dark and golden hours. The light that blinds our eyes is not art. Rather it is love, friendship, crossed swords.
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
The worst thing is that we live in a contaminated moral environment. We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought. Concepts such as love, friendship, compassion, humility or forgiveness lost their depth and dimension.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
But love me for love's sake, that evermore_x000D_ _x000D_ Thou may'st love on, through love's eternity.
We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.
Friendship is a miracle by which a person consents to view from a certain distance, without coming any nearer, the very being who is as necessary to him as food.
Love just seems to make life not just livable, but a gallant, gallant event.
They love least that let men know their loves.
Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life.
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