“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.”
Henri Nouwen
“Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“My friend, ally rotten- I exist, have you forgotten?”
Chaice Regime
“I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.”
Benjamin Banneker
“Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.”
Albert Camus
“It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results”
John Calvin