Relationships

"The test of friendship is assistance in adversity and that too unconditional assistance. Cooperation which needs consideration is not a commercial contract and not friendship. Conditional cooperation is like adulterated cement which does not bind."

Mohandas Gandhi

"The world's so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers, and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us and who though distant is close to us in spirit this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden."

Goethe

"We had grown so tall we thought we could afford to cut the roots that held us down only to discover that the tallest trees need the most elaborate roots of all."

Paul L. Wachtel

"Friendship is, strictly speaking, reciprocal benevolence which inclines each part to be as solicitous for the welfare of the other as for his own."

Plato