The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before they marry, and they imagine to themselves that the reason of their unhappiness will be removed when they are married. When it isn't they blame the other person, which is clearly absurd. I believe that is what generally starts the trouble.
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.
Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.
Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things, does the heart find its morning and is refreshed.
I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.
Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
