No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.
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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.
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.
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.
On the relationship side, if you teach people to respond actively and constructively when someone they care about has a victory, it increases love and friendship and decreases the probability of depression.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they will not be able to discover the secret springs of happiness in the human heart; they will know nothing of love and friendship.
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
Friendship and love are impossible without a mutual vulnerability.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
I get by with a little help from my friends.
We live now in a global village and we are in one single family. It's our responsibility to bring friendship and love from all different places around the world and to live together in peace.
Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
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