It should be part of our private ritual to devote a quarter of an hour every day to the enumeration of the good qualities of our friends. When we are not active we fall back idly upon defects even of those whom we most love.

Mark Rutherford
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  1. It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. - Friedrich Nietzsche

  2. There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature. - Jane Austen

  3. If I had a flower for every time I thought of you... I could walk through my garden forever. - Alfred Tennyson

  4. You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together. - Nicholas Sparks

  5. Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grassthe world is too full to talk about. - Jalaluddin Rumi

More Quotes By Mark Rutherford
  1. The demand is for certainty is a sign of weakness.

  2. The successful man is he who when he sees that no further certainty is attainable promptly decides on the most probable side as if he were completely sure it was right.

  3. It should be part of our private ritual to devote a quarter of an hour every day to the enumeration of the good qualities of our friends. When we are not active we fall back idly upon defects even of those whom we most love.

  4. Most of us have no real loves and no real hatreds. Blessed is love less blessed is hatred but thrice accursed is that indifference which is neither one nor the other.

  5. When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.

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