"Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot."

Lawrence, D. H. | Speech | 2 bookmarks

"A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth."

Darwin, Charles R. | Friends and Friendship | 5 bookmarks

"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures."

Gibran, Kahlil | Friends and Friendship | 4 bookmarks

"Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life."

Grayson, David | Friends and Friendship | 1 bookmarks

"One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. | Friends and Friendship | 1 bookmarks

"Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health."

Stevenson, Robert Louis | Communication | 1 bookmarks

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."

Washington, George | Friends and Friendship | 4 bookmarks

"All that this world knows of living lies in giving -- and more giving; He that keeps, be sure he loses -Friendship grows by what it uses."

Maclaren, Alexander | Giving | 1 bookmarks

"The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal."

Johnson, Samuel | Friends and Friendship | 2 bookmarks

"If you can't change your fate, change your attitude."

Tan, Amy | Attitude | 28 bookmarks