Emily Dickinson on Friendship
“I felt it shelter to speak to you.”
- Emily Dickinson
“I felt it shelter to speak to you.”
- Emily Dickinson
“There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Don’t forget. In a years time you could be dead. Don’t postpone a life for tomorrow that you can start today.”
- Nick Kinsella
“Let love lead your soul. Make it a place to retire to, a kind of cave, a retreat for the deep core of being.”
- Attar
“One’s attempt to withold knowledge from another out of jealousy, for example, develops karmas which will at a later time function to obscure one’s own knowledge.”
“Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.”
- Cavett Robert
“A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.”
- William Arthur Ward
“True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.”
- David Tyson
“Those who really seek the path to Enlightenment dictate terms to their mind. Then they proceed with strong determination.”
- Buddha