"What doesn't kill us makes us stronger."

Nietzsche, Friedrich | Adversity | 14 bookmarks

"One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam."

Nietzsche, Friedrich | Egotism | 4 bookmarks

"One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too."

Nietzsche, Friedrich | Emotions | 4 bookmarks

"Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay."

Unknown, Source | Friends and Friendship | 15 bookmarks

"The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands."

Unknown, Source | Friends and Friendship | 6 bookmarks

"It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship."

Thayer, Mary Dixon | Friends and Friendship | 6 bookmarks

"If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own."

Bronte, Charlotte | Friends and Friendship | 2 bookmarks

"It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe --though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived."

Sontag, Susan | Memory | 2 bookmarks

"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring."

Bradley, Francis H. | Admiration | 7 bookmarks

"I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it."

Mann, Thomas | Admiration | 1 bookmarks