"Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries."

Bunuel, Luis on vice   

"Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love."

Bernard, St. on love
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"Love is not love until love's vulnerable."

Roethke, Theodore on love
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"Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine."

Rossetti, Christina on love
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"Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom."

Krishnamurti, Jiddu on freedom
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"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves."

Hugo, Victor on love
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"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear."

Bible on love
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"No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth."

Southey, Robert on friends and friendship
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"The language of friendship is not words but meanings."

Thoreau, Henry David on friends and friendship
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"The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know."

Unknown, Source on friends and friendship
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"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 the appellation."

Washington, George on friends and friendship
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"A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else."

Wein, Len on friends and friendship
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"Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?"

Bach, Richard on friends and friendship
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"There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love."

Hazlitt, William on friends and friendship
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"A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity."

Hall, Robert on friends and friendship   

"There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY"

Greeley, Andrew M. on friends and friendship
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"I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar."

Brault, Robert on friends and friendship
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"Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on friends and friendship
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"Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life."

Byrnes, James F. on friends and friendship
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"What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk."

Cicero, Marcus T. on friends and friendship
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"A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence."

Condie, Sheryl on friends and friendship
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"Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends."

Delille, Jacques on friends and friendship
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"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own."

Disraeli, Benjamin on friends and friendship
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"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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"The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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"Your friend is your needs answered."

Gibran, Kahlil on friends and friendship
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"Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit."

Gibran, Kahlil on friends and friendship
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"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity."

Gibran, Kahlil on friends and friendship
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"A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]"

Bible on friends and friendship
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