Quotes about "Friendship & Relationships"

I started music to be myself - to release and express - so I have to make sure that I'm staying true to me and making myself happy. ”

It's true, some senior Hungarian writers are not known for their laughter. There is a strong Germanic influence - an attitude that if it's enjoyable it can't possibly be literature. ”

In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth. ”

The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods. ”

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you. ”

Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others, and others love to us. ”

Individual psychotherapy - that is, engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient, modest, and a perceptive listener, rather than a talker and advice-giver. ”

From my father's point of view, without a thought for self, a true patriot stands up against the stones of condemnation and speaks for those who are given no real voice in the halls of justice or the halls of government. ”

My father valued patriotism above all other social obligations, but he had his own particular interpretation of just how true patriotism was meant to function. ”

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights. ”