“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.”
“The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.”
“There is no enjoying the possession of anything valuable unless one has someone to share it with.”
“Other people's views and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.”
“If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.”
“Associate with people who are likely to improve you.”
“But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.”
“Regard a friend as loyal, and you will make him loyal.”
“I have learned to be a friend to myself Great improvement this indeed Such a one can never be said to be alone for know that he who is a friend to himself is a friend to all mankind.”
“Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.”