love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

And let your best be for your friend. If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also. For what is your friend that your should seek with him hours to kill? Seek with him always hours to live. For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness. And in the sweetness of friendship, let there be laughter, and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

How beautiful to find a heart that loves you, without asking you for anything, but to be okay.

He is short-sighted who looks only on the path he treads and the wall on which he leans.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.