"The condition which high friendship demands is..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.
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More on Friendship
“Who then will dare to say I'm weak or timid? No, they'll say I'm loyal as a friend, ruthless as a foe, so much like a hero destined for glory.”
“Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed.”
“Sam, clinging to Frodo's arm, collapsed on a step in the black darkness. 'Poor old Bill!' he said in a choking voice. 'Poor old Bill! Wolves and snakes! But the snakes were too much for him. I had to choose, Mr. Frodo. I had to come with you.”
More on Independence
“I'm not a person who likes authority. I just love the fact that it's up to me, and I go straight to the audience.”
“A business which can bring itself to the point where it attracts the attention of money should be able to continue on its own feet without being financed.”
“If you make a choice that doesn't please your mate, your friends, your mother, or whoever, the world will not fall apart - the people who truly love you want you to love yourself.”