"Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of each other." - Joseph Addison True friends promote both the good and happiness of each other, not just the happiness. As such there is occasionally the need to communicate hard sayings, counsel which would likely offend in more …
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Fundamental Preferences
"Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error before an afflicted truth." - Jeremy Taylor The world is filled with the by-products of prosperous errors, in fact, it may appear on occasion to turn on them. The momentary success of prosperous errors creates the misleading appearance of a sustainable alternative to a life lived according …
Purity of Heart
"When you admonish your friend, let it be without bitterness; when you chide him, let it be without reproach; when you praise him, let it be with worthy purpose, and for just causes, and in friendly measures; too much of that is flattery, to little is envy; if you do it justly, you teach him …
Ways of Uniting
"Some friendships are made by nature; some by contract; some by interest; and some by souls. And in proportion to these ways of uniting, so the friendships are greater or less, virtuous or natural, profitable or holy, or all of this together." - Jeremy Taylor, "A Discourse on Friendship," 1657. How much lighter and fuller …
Communications of Friendship
I said, "Friendship is the greatest band in the world," and I had reason for it, for it is all the bands that this world hath; and there is no society, and there is no relation that is worthy, but is made so by the communications of friendship, and by partaking of some of its …
A Worthy Friend
"Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary of our calamities, the councellor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds, the emission of our thoughts, the exercise and improvement of what we meditate. And although I love my friend because he is worthy, …
Peak Performers
“Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.” - Charles A. Garfield To my mind the most beautiful of life’s many qualities is its constant motion. This is as true in Nature as it is in the world man builds for himself; in both, change is constant. Your …
Friendship
Hand Grasps hand, eye lights eye in good friendship, And great hearts expand, And grow one in the sense of this world’s life. ﹣Robert Browning To be a friend one must be thoroughly devoted to goodness and truth, for anything less is but a commercial alliance.
Wisdom, Beauty and Truth
"Every moment instructs, and every object; for wisdom is infused into every form." - Emerson, Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical, comp. by Charles Noel Douglas. New York: Halcyon House, 1917; Bartleby.com, 2012. A friend of mine recently asked me: "Can a tree be wise?" It was a sweet, seemingly simple question to answer, but it …
World Within
The love of learning is the beginning of knowledge; humble appreciation for reproach is the beginning of wisdom. The former leads to a more extensive understanding of the world without, while the latter leads to a deeper ken of the world within.
Gregory Hake 