"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves."

Hugo, Victor on love
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"To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever."

Drummond, Henry on love
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"Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile."

Jones, Franklin P. on love
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"It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all."

Saltus, Edgar on love   

"To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage."

Lao-Tzu on courage
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"In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person."

Anderson, Margaret on love
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"There is a French saying: Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love."

Finod De, J. on marriage
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"Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another."

Ebers, George on friends and friendship
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"Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence."

Smith, Sydney on friends and friendship
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"It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship."

Thayer, Mary Dixon on friends and friendship
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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 gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands."

Unknown, Source on friends and friendship
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"Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends."

Capote, Truman on friends and friendship
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"The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words."

Buddha on friends and friendship
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"The rain may be falling hard outside, But your smile makes it all alright. I'm so gland that you're my friend. I know our friendship will never end."

Alan, Robert on smile
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"A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love."

Basil, St. on results   

"Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another."

Unknown, Source on friends and friendship
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"The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses."

Storey, David on friends and friendship
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"The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved."

Clyde, R.D. on happiness
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"You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving."

Carmichael, Amy on love
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"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship, never."

Colton, Charles Caleb on love
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"If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen."

Reagan, Ronald on love
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"To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence."

Smith, Sydney on love
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"It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving."

Braunstein, Richard on giving
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"Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them."

Carroll, Pat on love
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"Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"Friendship is like money, easier made than kept."

Butler, Samuel on friends and friendship
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"True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable."

Gentry, David Tyson on friends and friendship
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"Friendship needs no words..."

Hammarskjold, Dag on friends and friendship
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"True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks."

Jerome, St. on friends and friendship
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"Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up."

Terence on friends and friendship
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"Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief."

Addison, Joseph on friends and friendship
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"To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship."

Sallust on friends and friendship   

"We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love."

Thích Nhat Hanh on love
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