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.
– Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin (Vol. 1: 1931-1934)
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To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
– Leo Buscaglia, Living, Loving, and Learning (1982)
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel,
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatched, unfledged comrade.
– William Shakespeare, Hamlet (Act 1, Scene 3)
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
– Martin Luther King Junior (1968 speech, where he reflects on the Civil Rights Movement)
A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
– Arabian Proverb
Perfect love is rare indeed — for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.
– Leo F. Buscaglia, Love (1972)
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