THE LAW OF THE CHAIN The Strength of the Team Is Impacted by Its Weakest Link.

Anytime a relationship is unequal, it cannot last—whether you are giving more than you get or getting more than you deserve.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses. Katherine Mansfield I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were . . .

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.