friendship

...There is no greater dividing force in this world than self-interest...

A nationalist will blindly follow his country to his death out of love for it. A patriot will stand up for and even against his country to his death out of love for it.

The purpose of life is to nurture joy, which involves those aspects of humanity that enrich the soul.

a person who tries to use reasoning to explain faith gets lost in the wilderness of incomprehension.

Only a fool would find happiness from an achievement that is detrimental to those he loves.

It was one thing to be fooled, and another thing to be taken for a fool all the time.

...No man is foolish when his friend betrays him because a man__ world is most serene when he has people to trust and call friends. After all, is it not often said that a friend is another self?

In your selflessness pursuit of things higher than yourself, you appear selfish or inconsiderate to those who truly love you and who have cared deeply about you from the first day you came into their lives.

Real friends are not those who stop you from crying but those who cry with you.

Life is full of intriguing souls that you cannot penetrate_ An uncomfortable percentage of those anguished and impregnable souls also have suffering hearts that are further tormented by a deluded mind. They will hurt out of an impulse, and then live their lives after that without the slightest remorse.

Avoid people who hurt from an impulse. I mean people who have this tendency to relish their capacity to hurt the good souls of this world, and who after hurting, wake up the next day without a trace of despondent brooding, and then move on with life never thinking that they should show some remorse or try to repent.

There is no bigger gratification than the realization of the things you believe in after overcoming all the odds.

I think how much depends upon a best friend. When you wake up in the morning you swing your legs out of bed and you put your feet on the ground and you stand up. You don't scoot to the edge of the bed and look down to make sure the floor is there. The floor is always there. Until it's not.

In dealing with others, man is inherently a slave to his preconceptions, to the stereotypes he became familiar with that made life easier for him to comprehend.

Judgments based on preconceptions make life simple for us to deal with since that means we safely shield ourselves behind barriers of preconception that helped us feel safe in whatever views or assumptions we are having.

Never give up the freeness of your soul. Live your duty to mankind, nurture creatures of this world as a true mother of the earth, but never shut your imagination off from those desires that distinguish you from the ordinary. Never allow yourself to be sapped of that extraordinary energy that is the necessary ingredient for creating something new and progressive.

We, humans, have come up with so many superficialities that are completely unnecessary for our existence and happiness on earth.

A yesterday missed can never be found even in a fine tomorrow.