The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The ultimate measure of a person is not where they stand in moments of comfort and convenience, but where the stand in times of challenge and controversy.
G. K. Chesterton
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
William M. Thackeray
The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
Thomas Fuller
There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.
Ernest Hemingway
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
Katherine Hathaway
There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.
George Sand
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
Charles "Tremendous" Jones
Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.
Marlene Dietrich
Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.
