CuratedRelationships
Many a brother you have whom your mother did not bear.Arabic proverb (Majma' al-Amthal)
Many a brother you have whom your mother did not bear.Arabic proverb (Majma' al-Amthal)
We have two ears and one mouth, so that we may listen more and speak less.Zeno of Citium
Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.23
Of all the things wisdom provides for the blessedness of a whole life, by far the greatest is the possession of friendship.Epicurus
Principal Doctrines 27
Plant the tree of friendship, for it bears the heart's desire; uproot the sapling of enmity, for it brings sorrow without number.Hafiz
Divan of Hafiz
Your spirit is mingled with my spirit as wine is mingled with clear water: whatever touches you touches me, and so in every state, you are I.Al-Hallaj
Diwan al-Hallaj
Keep what moves you
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A long road tests the horse's strength; long days reveal the human heart.Chinese proverb
A single cup of coffee is remembered for forty years.Turkish proverb
If a man attends to you only with strained effort, leave him, and do not waste much regret on him.Imam Ash-Shafi'i
Diwan al-Shafi'i (traditionally attributed)
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.Abraham Lincoln
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.John Dryden
All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.Jane Austen
People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.Muhammad Iqbal
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.Alex Haley
I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.Augustine of Hippo
Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.Sigmund Freud