Relationships

“Everything has two handles, the one by which it may be carried, the other by which it cannot.”

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

“There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”

“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”

“All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”

“Yes I said yes I will Yes.”

“Without friends, no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.”

“What you do not wish for yourself, do not do to others.”

“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.”

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature.”

“And when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard, nor welcomed; but when we are silent, we are still afraid.”

“The love of our neighbour in all its fullness simply means being able to say to him, 'What are you going through?'”

“You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”

“When love beckons to you, follow him, though his ways are hard and steep.”

“Character is not cut in marble—it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing.”

“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.”

“Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.”