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
Prayer is not an act of worship merely, the bending of the knee on set occasions, and offering petitions in need. It is an… — Hugh Black Copy Share Image
