CLEAR ALL
We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives.
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What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.
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People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.
Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.
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We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
Friendship . . . is born at the moment when one man says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .’