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“Where there's more of singing and less of sighing, Where there's more of giving and less of buying, And a man makes friends without half trying That's where the West begins.”

Men Giving Trying Happiness Friendship Half Friends Singing West Generosity Buying

Book:Out where the West Begins

Source: Out where the West Begins

“We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way.”

Way Love Mean Friendship Independent Chains Generosity Links Entity

Author:Thomas E. Mann

“Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.”

“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”

“We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.”

“I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.”

Source: The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume II: 1918-September 1919

“Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.”

Source: The Novels of Nora Roberts

“Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.”

“What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.”

Source: Ex Corde Locutiones...: Words from the Heart Spoken of His Dead Brethren...

“In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.”

“Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.”

Love Wells Pain Used Lying Given Friendship Risk Missing Positive Waste True Love Convinced Selfish Generosity Prudence Reins Waste Of Life

Author:Mary Cholmondeley

“We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”

“I have always looked at life as a voyage, mostly wonderful, sometimes frightening. In my family and friends I have discovered treasure more valuable than gold.”

Love Sometimes Father Friendship Wonderful My Family Gold Valuable Treasure Generosity Frightening Family And Friends Voyages Old Friends

Author:Jimmy Buffett

“Love and happiness remind me of sticky peanut butter. When you spread them around, you can't help but end up getting some on yourself!”

Love Ends Helping Friendship Spread Generosity Peanuts Sticky Peanut Butter Happiness And Love

Author:Marsha Jordan

“There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear to befriend you when you are wealthy, but precious few will do the same when you are poor. If wealth is a magnet, poverty is a kind of repellent. Yet, poverty often brings out the true generosity in others.”