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with whom you can feel there is
understanding in spite of distances
or thoughts expressed ~ That can
make life a garden."
-Goethe
"Silence is the true friend that never
betrays."
-Confucious
"Love is blind, but friendship closes
its eyes."
-unknown
"But friendship is precious, not only
in the shade, but in the sunshine of
life; and thanks to a benevolent
arrangement of things, the greater
part of life is sunshine."
-Thomas Jefferson
"Don't walk in front of me, I may
not follow ~ Don't walk behind me,
I may not lead ~ Just walk beside
me and be my friend."
-unknown
"An ounce of blood is worth more
than a pound of friendship."
-Spanish Proverb
"Friends are born, not made."
-Henry Adams
"A friend may well be reckoned the
masterpiece of nature."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"My father always used to say that
when you die, if you've got five
real friends, then you've had a great
life."
-Lee Iacocca
"Hold a true friend with both your
hands."
-Nigerian Proverb
"Sometimes our light goes out but
is blown into flame by another
human being. Each of us owes
deepest thanks to those who have
rekindled this light."
-Albert Schweitzer
"There comes that mysterious
meeting in life when someone
acknowledges who we are and what
we can be, igniting the circuits of
our highest potential."
-Rusty Berkus
"Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?"
-Abraham Lincoln
"You can make more friends in two
months by becoming interested in
other people than you can in two
years by trying to get other people
interested in you."
-Dale Carnegie
"Remember friends as you pass by,
As you are now so once was I.
As low as I you once must be,
Prepare yourself and follow me."
-Gravestone from the 1800s
"I do not want a friend
Who smiles when I smile
Who weeps when I weep
For my shadow in the pool
Can do better than that."
-Confucious
"A friend is someone who knows
the song in your heart and can sing
it back to you when you have
forgotten the words."
-unknown
"A friend is a gift you give yourself."
-Robert Louis Stevenson
To love and lose, the next best."
-William M. Thackeray
"Don't forget to love yourself."
-Soren Kierkegaard
"If you love someone, let them go.
If they return to you, it was meant
to be. If they don't, their love was
never yours to begin with..."
-Unknown
"Love is hard work; and hard work
sometimes hurts!"
-Unknown
"True love never dies for it is lust
that fades away. Love bonds for a
lifetime but lust just pushes away."
-Alicia Barnhart
"You call it madness, but I call it
love."
-Don Byas
"Who says love never lives? Maybe
we've never lived."
-Unknown
"He who loves 50 people has 50
woes; he who loves no one has no
woes."
-Buddha
"Some love lasts a lifetime. True
love lasts forever."
-Unknown
"Love is not blind - It sees more
and not less, but because it sees
more it is willing to see less."
-Will Moss
"If love is great, and there are no
greater things, then what I feel for
you must be the greatest."
-Unknown
"The eskimos have 52 words for
snow because it is so special to
them; there ought to be as many
for love!"
-Margaret Atwood
"Love is like playing the piano. First
you must learn to play by the rules,
then you must forget the rules and
play from your heart."
-Unknown
"Within you I lose myself
Without you I find myself
Wanting to be lost again."
-Unknown
"Love is not love that alters when
it alteration finds."
-Shakespeare
"If I could reach up and hold a
star for every time you've made me
smile, the entire evening sky would
be in the palm of my hand."
-Unknown
"We all want to fall in love. Why?
Because that experience makes us
feel completely alive. Where every
sense is heightened, every emotion
is magnified, our everyday reality is
shattered and we are flying into the
heavens. It may only last a
moment, an hour, an afternoon. But
that doesn't diminish its value.
Because we are left with memories
that we treasure for the rest of our
lives."
-Unknown
"Relationships--of all kinds--are
like sand held in your hand. Held
loosely, with an open hand, the
sand remains where it is. The
minute you close your hand and
squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand
trickles through your fingers. You
may hold onto some of it, but most
will be spilled. A relationship is like
that. Held loosely, with respect and
freedom for the other person, it is
likely to remain intact. But hold too
tightly, too possessively, and the
relationship slips away and is lost."
-Kaleel Jamison
'tis a pain that pain to miss; but
of all the pains, the greatest pain
is to love, but love in vain."
-Abraham Crowley
"So much of what we know of
love we learn at home."
-unknown
"You don't marry someone you can
live with - you marry the person
who you cannot live without."
-unknown
"Love is blind, but friendship closes
its eyes."
-unknown
"Life has taught us that love does
not consist in gazing at each other
but in looking outward together in
the same direction."
-Saint-Exupery
"A kiss is a lovely trick designed
by nature to stop speech when
words become superfluous."
-Ingrid Bergman
"Love built on beauty, soon as
beauty, dies."
-John Donne
"He that falls in love with himself
will have no rivals."
-Benjamin Franklin
"I never knew how to worship until
I knew how to love."
-Henry Ward Beecher
"Woe to the man whose heart has
not learned while young to hope, to
love - and to put its trust in life."
-Joseph Conrad
"True love is like ghosts, which
everybody talks about and few have
seen."
-La Rochefoucauld
"Who ever loved that loved not at
first sight?"
-Christopher Marlowe
"Tell me whom you love and I will
tell you who you are."
-Houssaye
"We perceive when love begins and
when it declines by our
embarrassment when alone together."
-La Bruyere
"Better to have loved and lost,
than to have never loved at all."
-St. Augustine
"To love another person is to see
the face of God."
-Les Miserables
"Love is but the discovery of
ourselves in others, and the delight
in the recognition."
-Alexander Smith
"When we are in love we often
doubt that which we most believe."
-La Rochefoucauld
"Sympathy constitutes friendship; but
in love there is a sort of antipathy,
or opposing passion. Each strives
to be the other, and both together
make up one whole."
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Friendship often ends in love; but
love in friendship - never."
-Charles Caleb Colton
"The richest love is that which
submits to the arbitration of time."
-Lawrence Durrell
"There is no disguise which can
hide love for long where it exists,
or simulate it where it does not."
-La Rochefoucauld
"A very small degree of hope is
sufficient to cause the birth of love."
-Stendhal
"There is no remedy for love but
to love more."
-Thoreau
"Blushing is the color of virtue."
-Diogenes
"Death is a challenge. It tells us
not to waste time... It tells us to
tell each other right now that we
love each other."
-Leo F. Buscaglia
"Love cures people - both the
ones who give it and the ones who
receive it."
-Dr. Karl Menninger
"Spread love everywhere you go:
first of all in your own house. Give
love to your children, to your wife
or husband, to a next door
neighbor... Let no one ever come
to you without leaving better and
happier. Be the living expression of
God's kindness; kindness in your
face, kindness in your eyes,
kindness in your smile, kindness in
your warm greeting."
-Mother Theresa
strangers, only friends we haven't
met yet." -- Anonymous
"Odd how much it hurts when a
friend moves away - and leaves
behind only silence." -- Pam Brown
"You can make more friends in two
months by becoming interested in
other people than you can by trying
to get other people interested in
you." -- Dale Carnegie
"You can hardly make a friend in a
year, but you can easily offend one
in an hour." -- Chinese Proverb
"It is the friends that you can call
at 4 A.M. that matter." -- Marlene
Dietrich
"In times of prosperity friends will
be plenty; in time of adversity not
one in twenty." -- English Proverb
"My best friend is the one that
brings out the best in me." --
Henry Ford
"If I had to choose between
betraying my country and betraying
my friend, I hope I should have the
guts to betray my country." -- E.
M. Forster
"Each friend represents a world in
us, a world possibly not born until
they arrive, and it is only by this
meeting that a new world is born."
-- Anais Nin
"God save me from my friends - I
can protect myself from my
enemies." -- Proverb
"Life withougt a friend is death
without a witness." -- Spanish
Proverb
"We are all travelers in the
wilderness of this world, and the
best we can find in our travels is
an honest friend" -- Robert Lewis
Stevenson
"The most I can do for my friend
is simply to be his friend." --
Henry David Thoreau
"Friends are God's way of
apologizing to us for our families."
-- Unknown
"No person is your friend who
demands your silence, or denies
your right to grow."-- Alice Walker
"Nine-tenths of the people were
created so you would want to be
with the other tenth." -- Horace
Walpole
"A friend is one who knows all
about you and likes you anyway."
-- Christi Mary Warner
"A friend can tell you things you
don't want to tell yourself." --
Frances Ward Weller
go of all expectations. It means full
acceptance, even celebration of
another's personhood."
-Karen Casey
"If you judge people, you have no
time to love them."
-Mother Theresa
"If you would be loved, love and
be lovable."
-Benjamin Franklin
"Love begins with a smile, grows
with a kiss, and ends with a
teardrop." -- Anonymous
"We always believe our first love is
our last, and our last love our
first." -- Anonymous
"We come to love not by finding a
perfect person, but by learning to
see an imperfect person perfectly."
-- Anonymous
"The way to love anything is to
realize that it might be lost." --
G. K. Chesterton
"Love is shown in your deeds, not
in your words." -- Fr. Jerome
Cummings
"Where there is love there is life."
-- Gandhi
"We look forward to the time when
the power to love of will replace the
love of power. Then will our world
know the blessings of peace." --
William Gladstone
"The supreme happiness in life is
the conviction that we are loved."
-- Victor Hugo
"To love someone deeply gives you
strength. Being loved by someone
deeply gives you courage." -- Lao
Tzu
"Absence diminishes small loves and
increases great ones, as the wind
blows out the candle and blows up
the bonfire." -- François de La
Rouchefoucauld
"Love one another and you will be
happy. It's as simple and as difficult
as that." -- Michael Leunig
"The heart has reasons that reason
cannot know." -- Pascal
"To love and win is the best thing.
To love and lose, the next best."
-- William M. Thackeray
"We cannot really love anybody with
whom we never laugh." -- Agnes
Repplier
"And when the future hinges on the
next words that are said, don't let
logic interfere, believe your heart
instead." -- Philip Robison
" 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all."
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In
Memoriam, 1850
"Love without reason lasts the
longest." -- Unknown
"Better never to have met you in
my dream than to wake and reach
for hands that are not there." --
Otomo No Yakamochi
everlasting: a feeling unknown,
unhoped for, unexpected--in so far
as it could be a matter of
conscious awareness; it took entire
possession of him, and he
understood, with joyous amazement,
that this was for life.
* Thomas Mann
We are not the same persons this
year as last; nor are those we
love. It is a happy chance if we,
changing, continue to love a
changed person.
* W. Somerset Maugham
Romantic love is an illusion. Most
of us discover this truth at the end
of a love affair or else when the
sweet emotions of love lead us into
marriage and then turn down their
flames.
* Thomas Moore
A man reserves his true and
deepest love not for the species of
woman in whose company he finds
himself electrified and enkindled, but
for that one in whose company he
may feel tenderly drowsy.
* George Jean Nathan
There is always some madness in
love. But there is also always some
reason in madness.
* Friedrich Nietzsche
Family love is messy, clinging, and
of an annoying and repetitive pattern,
like bad wallpaper.
* P. J. O'Rourke
Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if
you fight and resist him,
Easy-going enough once you
acknowledge his power.
* Ovid
We conceal it from ourselves in
vain--we must always love
something. In those matters
seemingly removed from love, the
feeling is secretly to be found, and
man cannot possibly live for a
moment without it.
* Blaise Pascal
Love, free as air at sight of human
ties,
Spreads his light wings, and in a
moment flies.
* Alexander Pope
Love makes the time pass. Time
makes love pass.
* French Proverb
Love is something far more than
desire for sexual intercourse; it is
the principal means of escape from
the loneliness which afflicts most
men and women throughout the
greater part of their lives.
* Bertrand Russell
Love is a spirit of all compact of
fire.
* William Shakespeare
Love looks not with the eyes, but
with the mind;
And therefore is winged Cupid
painted blind.
* William Shakespeare
Love sought is good, but given
unsought, is better.
* William Shakespeare
The course of true love never did
run smooth.
* William Shakespeare
They do not love that do not show
their love.
* William Shakespeare
We cease loving ourselves if no one
loves us.
* Madame De Staël
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
* Lord Tennyson
There is no remedy for love but to
love more.
* Henry David Thoreau
If so many men, so many minds,
certainly so many hearts, so many
kinds of love.
* Leo Tolstoy
Love has features which pierce all
hearts, he wears a bandage which
conceals the faults of those beloved.
He has wings, he comes quickly
and flies away the same.
* Voltaire
Love is what we were born with.
Fear is what we learned here.
* Marianne Williamson
* Henry Adams
Forsake not an old friend, for a
new one does not compare with him.
* Apocrypha -- Ecclesiasticus 9:10
My best friend is the man who in
wishing me well wishes it for my
sake.
* Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling
in two bodies.
* Aristotle
This communicating of a man's self
to his friend works two contrary
effects; for it redoubleth joys, and
cutteth griefs in half.
* Francis Bacon
Friendship is a strong and habitual
inclination in two persons to promote
the good and happiness of one
another.
* Eustace Budgell
Don't believe your friends when they
ask you to be honest with them.
All they really want is to be
maintained in the good opinion they
have of themselves.
* Albert Camus
How can sincerity be a condition of
friendship? A taste for truth at any
cost is a passion which spares
nothing.
* Albert Camus
Friendship often ends in love; but
love in friendship--never.
* Charles Caleb Colton
What a wretched lot of old shrivelled
creatures we shall be by-and-by.
Never mind--the uglier we get in
the eyes of others, the lovelier we
shall be to each other; that has
always been my firm faith about
friendship.
* George Eliot
A friend may well be reckoned the
masterpiece of nature.
* Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one of the blessings of old
friends that you can afford to be
stupid with them.
* Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only way to have a friend is to
be one.
* Ralph Waldo Emerson
Real friendship is shown in times of
trouble;
prosperity is full of friends.
* Euripedes
It is in the thirties that we want
friends. In the forties we know they
won't save us any more than love
did.
* F. Scott Fitzgerald
No man can be happy without a
friend, nor be sure of his friend till
he is unhappy.
* Thomas Fuller
Your friend is the man who knows
all about you, and still likes you.
* Elbert Hubbard
My father always used to say that
when you die, if you've got five
real friends, you've had a great life.
* Lee Iacocca
A true friend is the greatest of all
blessings, and that which we take
the least care of all to acquire.
* François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
However rare true love may be, it
is less so than true friendship.
* François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
The most deadly fruit is borne by
the hatred which one grafts on an
extinguished friendship.
* Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
It's no good trying to keep up old
friendships. It's painful for both
sides. The fact is, one grows out
of people, and the only thing is to
face it.
* W. Somerset Maugham
We know our friends by their
defects rather than by their merits.
* W. Somerset Maugham
If a man should importune me to
give a reason why I loved him, I
find it could no otherwise be
expressed, than by making answer:
because it was he, because it was
I.
* Michel de Montaigne
Love demands infinitely less than
friendship.
* George Jean Nathan
Women can form a friendship with a
man very well; but to preserve
it--to that end a slight physical
antipathy must probably help.
* Friedrich Nietzsche
Hold a true friend with both your
hands.
* Nigerian Proverb
To me, fair friend, you never can
be old
For as you were when first your
eye I eyed,
Such seems your beauty still.
* William Shakespeare
Friendship is constant in all other
things
Save in the office and affairs of love.
* William Shakespeare
The proper office of a friend is to
side with you when you are in the
wrong. Nearly anybody will side with
you when you are in the right.
* Mark Twain
Friendship is the marriage of the
soul, and this marriage is liable to
divorce.
* Voltaire
Between men and women there is
no friendship possible. There is
passion, enmity, worship, love, but
no friendship.
* Oscar Wilde
everlasting: a feeling unknown,
unhoped for, unexpected--in so far
as it could be a matter of
conscious awareness; it took entire
possession of him, and he
understood, with joyous amazement,
that this was for life.
* Thomas Mann
We are not the same persons this
year as last; nor are those we
love. It is a happy chance if we,
changing, continue to love a
changed person.
* W. Somerset Maugham
Romantic love is an illusion. Most
of us discover this truth at the end
of a love affair or else when the
sweet emotions of love lead us into
marriage and then turn down their
flames.
* Thomas Moore
A man reserves his true and
deepest love not for the species of
woman in whose company he finds
himself electrified and enkindled, but
for that one in whose company he
may feel tenderly drowsy.
* George Jean Nathan
There is always some madness in
love. But there is also always some
reason in madness.
* Friedrich Nietzsche
Family love is messy, clinging, and
of an annoying and repetitive pattern,
like bad wallpaper.
* P. J. O'Rourke
Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if
you fight and resist him,
Easy-going enough once you
acknowledge his power.
* Ovid
We conceal it from ourselves in
vain--we must always love
something. In those matters
seemingly removed from love, the
feeling is secretly to be found, and
man cannot possibly live for a
moment without it.
* Blaise Pascal
Love, free as air at sight of human
ties,
Spreads his light wings, and in a
moment flies.
* Alexander Pope
Love makes the time pass. Time
makes love pass.
* French Proverb
Love is something far more than
desire for sexual intercourse; it is
the principal means of escape from
the loneliness which afflicts most
men and women throughout the
greater part of their lives.
* Bertrand Russell
Love is a spirit of all compact of
fire.
* William Shakespeare
Love looks not with the eyes, but
with the mind;
And therefore is winged Cupid
painted blind.
* William Shakespeare
Love sought is good, but given
unsought, is better.
* William Shakespeare
The course of true love never did
run smooth.
* William Shakespeare
They do not love that do not show
their love.
* William Shakespeare
We cease loving ourselves if no one
loves us.
* Madame De Staël
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
* Lord Tennyson
There is no remedy for love but to
love more.
* Henry David Thoreau
If so many men, so many minds,
certainly so many hearts, so many
kinds of love.
* Leo Tolstoy
Love has features which pierce all
hearts, he wears a bandage which
conceals the faults of those beloved.
He has wings, he comes quickly
and flies away the same.
* Voltaire
Love is what we were born with.
Fear is what we learned here.
* Marianne Williamson