A woman will be twice bound when her chains feel comfortable.
—Egyptian Proverb
The gift of friendship… a willingness to listen… a pair of helping hands… a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.
—Indian Proverb
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
—Graham Greene (1904–91) British Novelist, Playwright, Short Story Writer
With true friends, even water drunk together is sweet enough.
—Chinese Proverb
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.
—Marianne Moore (1887–1972) American Poet
It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.
—Common Proverb
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American Head of State
Friendship is like a bank account. You can’t continue to draw on it without making deposits.
—Indian Proverb
The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.
—Anne Louise Germaine de Stael (1766–1817) French Woman of Letters
Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
—Oprah Winfrey (b.1954) American TV Personality
True friendship consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice.
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637) English Dramatist, Poet, Actor
When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
—Blaise Pascal (1623–62) French Mathematician, Physicist, Theologian
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
—Napoleon I (1769–1821) Emperor of France
Whatever you believe with emotion becomes your reality. You always act in a manner consistent with your innermost beliefs and convictions.
—Brian Tracy (b.1944) American Author, Motivational Speaker
We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.
—Blaise Pascal (1623–62) French Mathematician, Physicist, Theologian
A Rescuer isn’t always a person. Addictions to alcohol or drugs, sexual addiction, workaholism—all the ways we numb out—can rescue the Victim from feeling his or her own feelings.
—David Emerald
That magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–81) British Head of State
Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.
—William James (1842–1910) American Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German Philosopher, Scholar, Writer
If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don’t accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept, because you will gain one friend.
—Augustine of Hippo (354–430) Roman-African Christian Philosopher
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
—Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) American Novelist, Human Rights Activist
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
—Victor Hugo (1802–85) French Novelist
Remember, happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
—Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American Self-Help Author
The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.
—Blaise Pascal (1623–62) French Mathematician, Physicist, Theologian
A buffalo does not feel the weight of his own horns.
—Indian Proverb
I didn’t find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.
—Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian Psychiatrist, Psychoanalytic
A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
The person, who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.
—Leo Buscaglia (1924–98) American Motivational Speaker