"one doesn't measure friendship by length of time only; depth of time is just as valuable."

-- Helen Clark MacInnes

#Friendship Quotes #Depth Quotes #Length Quotes

“And so I ask myself: 'Where are your dreams?' And I shake my head and mutter: 'How the years go by!' And I ask myself again: 'What have you done with those years? Where have you buried your best moments? Have you really lived? Look,' I say to myself, 'how cold it is becoming all over the world!' And more years will pass and behind them will creep grim isolation. Tottering senility will come hobbling, leaning on a crutch, and behind these will come unrelieved boredom and despair. The world of fancies will fade, dreams will wilt and die and fall like autumn leaves from the trees. . . .”
“It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.”
“Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through is now like something from the distant past. Weâ€™re so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past are no longer in orbit around our minds. There are just too many things we have to think about everyday, too many new things we have to learn. But still, no matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone.”
“Steven Barnes is uniquely powerful in helping others balance their physica and emotional arenas along a path of unifying purpose.””
“It's rare that a company has an opportunity to forever transform the ways in which people interact with the world and communicate with each other, but that is exactly what we plan to do with Valve,”
“How highly should we honor the Macedonians, who for the greater part of their lives never cease from fighting with the barbarians for the sake of the security of Greece? For who is not aware that Greece would have constantly stood in the greater danger, had we not been fenced by the Macedonians and the honorable ambition of their kings?”

Source : Polybius, William Roger Paton (1960). “Polybius: the histories”
“Regret and fear are twin thieves that rob us of today.”
“I've been on the phone, I think, 20 out of 24 hours the last three days.”

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