Just remember. Drink the coffee before it goes cold,” she whispered.

Remember — -drink the coffee before it goes cold.

Decision making, like coffee, needs a cooling process.

Winning friends begins with friendliness.

Your time in the past will begin from the time the coffee is poured. And you must return before the coffee goes cold.

You’ve got to create a community of colleagues and friends before you need it. Others around you are far more likely to

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rather than for our own.

Unreal friendship may turn to real
But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation.

Make friendship a fine art.

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of acts of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

If we want to make friends, let’s put ourselves out to do things for other people – things that require time, energy, unselfishness and thoughtfulness.

"Jeff Hall's research found that it took as many as sixty hours to develop a light friendship, sometimes one hundred hours to get to full-fledged "friend" status, and two hundred or more hours to unlock the vaunted "best friend" achievement...

Hall also found that how people talked mattered. We've all hit that wall with a potential friend where the small talk starts to go in circles...

Want to make good friends without the dozens of hours?... Arthur Aron got strangers to feel like lifelong pals in just forty-five minutes. How? Well that leads us to our second costly signal: vulnerability."

Nadie se atreve ya a parecer lo que es; y en esta coacción perpetua, los hombres que conforman el rebaño llamado sociedad, situados en las mismas circunstancias, harán todos lo mismo si no se lo impiden motivos de fuerza mayor. Por lo tanto, nunca sabremos muy bien con quién nos enfrentamos; para conocer a un amigo será necesario esperar las grandes ocasiones, es decir, esperar el momento en que ya sea tarde, puesto que para esas mismas ocasiones habría sido esencial conocerlo.