Some Quotes

“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.”
- Ralph Waldo Emmerson

“It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. “- Samuel Johnson

“Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s.” – billy wilder

“Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back. ” – Blaise Pascal

“To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time. ” – Cornelia Otis Skinner

“Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.” – George Eliot

“Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.” – George Washington

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention…. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.” Rachel Naomi Remen

“Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.” – George Bernard Shaw

“An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.”
- Martin Luther King Jr.

“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe

“My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I’m happy. I can’t figure it out. What am I doing right?” – Charles Schulz

“A useless life is an early death.” – Goethe