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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one. -Robert E. Lee.
Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one. -Robert E. Lee.
My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved read more
My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.
The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chair;
for that the rains might rust, read more
The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chair;
for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break.
- George Bancroft,
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does read more
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that read more
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because read more
Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.
We cannot tell the exact moment a friendship is formed; as in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is read more
We cannot tell the exact moment a friendship is formed; as in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses, there is at last one that makes the heart run over.