It takes a friend and an enemy, working in concert, to hurt you to the core the enemy to slander you and the friend to tell you about it.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
It takes a friend and an enemy, working in concert, to hurt you to the core the enemy to slander you and the friend to tell you about it.
Never cut what you can untie.
If you always live with those who are lame, you will yourself learn to limp.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
It takes a friend and an enemy, working in concert, to hurt you to the core: the enemy to slander you and the friend to tell you about it.
Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with their leaves … But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground, and the islands also hang together through the ocean’s bottom.
Never cut what you can untie.
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
In the end there doesn’t have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to.
Sometimes you have to love people from a distance and give them the space and time to get their minds right before you let them back into your life.
All relationships are important because they reveal the true nature of the relationship we have with ourselves.
Letting people be okay without us is how we get to be okay without them.
Nine out of every ten people improve on acquaintance.
The possession of a highly social conscience about large-scale issues is no guarantee whatever of reasonable conduct in private relations.
An acquaintance is a person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world: everyone you meet is your mirror.
Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions toward us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.
Everyone should keep someone else’s diary.
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
Because you’re not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with 10,000 people. The hardest is with one.
We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
Make yourself necessary to somebody.