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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 [...]

Friends are born, not made.
* 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 [...]

There are no such things as 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 [...]

“To know someone here or there 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 [...]

This was love at first sight, love 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 [...]

This was love at first sight, love 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 [...]

“Truly loving another means letting 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 [...]

“To love and win is the best thing. 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 [...]

“A mighty pain to love it is, and ’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 [...]

Love is something, which makes everyone and everything, flow and perhaps there is no living being whom this bug has never bitten. May this Valentine’s Day be filled with love, understanding, and contentment as you journey through life with all your near and dear ones.
Loving is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in [...]