Faithful friends

Words are easy, like the wind;

Faithful friends are hard to find.

--William Shakespeare

Whatever we are

Whatever we are, we are not what we ought to be.

--Saint Augustine

What does love look like?

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

--Saint Augustine 

Happiness and peace

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

                                      --C.S. Lewis 

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