Quotes

A few quotes I have collected recently that in one way or another relate to myself or life in general.

"I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better." - Plutarch

"A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world." - Lois Wyse

"The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words." - Cicero

"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are love; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves." - Victor Hugo

"We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversation with peopl may sweem like such a simple, obvious suggestin, but it involves courage and risk." - Thomas Moore

"It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to the friendship that we are not." - Mignon McLaughlin