No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You, too? Thought I was the only one.
"It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.All love that has not friendship for its base,
Is like a mansion built upon the sand.Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can do it aloneI LOVE AND MISS YOU PAUL, HOLD A SPOT FOR ME BROTHER.
IF YOU ALWAYS HAVE A SHALLOW PERSPECTIVE AND PAY ATTENTION ONLY TO TRIVIAL THINGS, YOU ARE SURE TO GET BOGGED DOWN IN ALL KINDS OF PETTY WORRIES AND CONCERNS, AND NOT BE ABLE TO MOVE FORWARD. EVEN RELATIVELY MINOR HURDLES OR PROBLEMS WILL SEEM INSURMOUNTABLE. BUT IF YOU LOOK AT LIFE FROM A BROAD VIEWPOINT, YOU NATURALLY SPOT THE WAY TO SOLVE ANY PROBLEM YOU MAY CONFRONT. THIS IS TRUE WHEN WE CONSIDER OUR OWN PERSONAL PROBLEMS AS WELL AS THOSE OF SOCIETY AND EVEN THE FUTURE OF THE ENTIRE WORLD...If I am not for me, who will be?
If I am for my self alone, what am I?
And if not now, when?Through out my life, I was raised among the scholars, and I discovered that there it nothing more becoming a person than silence; not study, but good deeds is the essence of virtue; excess in speech leads to sin...