"The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had. "

Unknown on friendship
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"The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one."

Balzac, Honore De on love
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"If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile."

Barry, Lynda on love
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"We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]"

Bible on love
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"Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on love
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"Who so loves believes the impossible."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on love
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"When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them."

Buber, Martin on love
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"Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade."

Buscaglia, Leo on love
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"Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love."

Buscaglia, Leo on love
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"Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge."

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De on love
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"Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life."

Byron, Lord on love
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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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"The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on love
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"If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours."

Colton, Charles Caleb on love
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"Naturally, love's the most distant possibility."

Bataille, Georges 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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"Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it."

Bacon, Francis on love
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"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."

Aurelius, Marcus on love
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"God loves each of us as if there were only one of us."

Augustine, St. on love
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"Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand."

Acquinas, Saint Thomas on faith
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"Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it."

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De on flirting   

"I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind."

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De on freedom
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"True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new."

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De on happiness   

"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De on love
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"Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?"

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De on belief   

"By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean."

Twain, Mark on adversity
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"Silence is the true friend that never betrays."

Confucius on silence
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"I have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women."

Confucius on virtue
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"Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it."

Allen, Woody on love
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"Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on love
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"There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy."

Anouilh, Jean on love
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"Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life."

Ardele, Jean Anouilh on love
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"We must love one another or die."

Auden, W. H. on love
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"A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime."

Auden, W. H. on love
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"If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have."

Barrie, Sir James M. on love
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