Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
A beautiful friendship can change people.
WHAT IF we all treat other people as we wish to be treated? MORE happiness. LESS selfishness, crime, fraud, hatred, terrorism, wars.
Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.
. . . friendship is something you do.
The vulgar herd estimate friendship by its advantages. [Lat. , Vulgus amicitias utilitate probat. ]
You may not remember the time you let me go first. Or the time you dropped back to tell me it wasn't that far to go. Or the time you waited at the crossroads for me to catch up. You may not remember any of those, but I do and this is what I have to say to you: Today, no matter what it takes, we ride home together.
How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em.
As long as our orientation is toward perfection or success, we will never learn about unconditional friendship with ourselves, nor will we find compassion.
I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.
So closely interwoven have been our lives, our purposes, and experiences that, separated, we have a feeling of incompleteness--united, such strength of self-association that no ordinary obstacles, difficulties, or dangers ever appear to us insurmountable.
Prime Minister [Shinzō Abe] and I have spoken a lot, and we said all the right things, in my opinion, about creating an atmosphere of trust and friendship between our nations and peoples.
Through awareness, you get a certain attitude. That's the way, you see, to achieve more peaceful, more compassion, more friendship through that way.
My only sketch, profile, of Heaven is a large blue sky, and larger than the biggest I have seen in June - and in it are my friends - every one of them.
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
Friendship needs no words.
This is as much a part of my story as anything else. Friendship is love as much as any romance.
So let the way wind up the hill or down, O’er rough or smooth, the journey will be joy; Still seeking what I sought when but a boy, New friendship, high adventure, and a crown. My heart will keep the courage of the quest, And hope the road’s last turn will be the best.