The glory of friendship

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with friendship.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

These are the gifts

To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness - these are the gifts which money cannot buy.

--Robert Louis Stevenson

The habit of being happy

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

                                                           --Robert Louis Stevenson 

Duty

Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less.

                                       --Robert E. Lee 

Love is the emblem

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time, effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
--Anne Louise Germaine de Stael

Forever

Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever.
--Oscar Wilde

Be faithful

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

--Mother Teresa