If happiness is a state of the inward life, we have to look for its chief obstructions not in outward conditions but in deeper places. Happiness depends in the last issue, as we saw, on the essential view of life.… — Hugh Black Copy Share Image
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. As a… — Hugh Black Copy Share Image
In the relationship of friends: "Each gives to the other, and each receives, and the fruit of the intercourse is more than either in… — Hugh Black Copy Share Image
Friendship cannot become permanent unless it becomes spiritual. There must be fellowship in the deepest things of the soul, community in the highest thoughts,… — Hugh Black Copy Share Image
Friends should be chosen by a higher principle of selection than any worldly one. They should be chosen for character, for goodness, for truth… — Hugh Black Copy Share Image
Friendship means to be a strong hand in the dark to another in the time of need. — Hugh Black Copy Share Image
No friendship has done its work until it reaches the supremest satisfaction of spiritual communion. — Hugh Black Copy Share Image
At the heart of happiness lies peace. It is the last and the highest attainment of the soul. — Hugh Black Copy Share Image
A man's inner nature is revealed by what he praises-a man is self-judged by what he says of others. Thus a man is judged… — Hugh Black Copy Share Image
If happiness is a state of the inward life, we have to look for its chief obstructions not in outward conditions but in deeper… — Hugh Black Copy Share Image
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. — Hugh Black Copy Share Image
We walk among worlds unrealized until we have learned the secret of love. — Hugh Black Copy Share Image
