Friendship

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are.

Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.
- Captain Corelli's Mandolin

Love's like the measles; all the worse when it comes late in life.

Love's like the measles; all the worse when it comes late in life.

Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

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.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being in love which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.

Love doesnt give up just because someting goes wrong or because your feelings are hurt. God is in charge, so those who love just keep on loving.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...but how much love we put in that action.

Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world; a prescription often given, too rarely taken.

Love may not make the world go round, but we must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile.

Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.

Love doesn't sit there like a stone. It has to be made like bread; remade all the time, made new.

Love is sometimes denied, sometimes lost, sometimes unrecognized, but in the end, always found with no regrets, forever valued and kept treasured.

Love means tearing down the separateness and the boundaries between your heart feelings and another person.

Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy.

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.

You

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.

Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire With angels shared, by Allah given To lift from earth our low desire.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.

You can't trust a promise someone makes while they're drunk, in love, hungry, or running for office.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.

Your love will last forever, If you do not expect her to walk the same path, But you look in the same direction.

You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
Donna Roberts

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind
me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus.

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

Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say. anon

Friends share each other's gladness and wipe each other's tears. Charles Jeffreys

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You, too? Thought I was the only one. C.S. Lewis

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value
to survival. C.S. Lewis

Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best. Joseph Parry

Good friends are like stars ... you don't always see them, but you know they're always there. anon

I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation. Rupert Brooke

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must
love our friends for their sakes rather than for our own.
Charlotte Bronte

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford
to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Just thinking about a friend makes you want to do a happy dance, because a friend is someone who loves you in spite of your faults.
Charles M. Schulz

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever. Francois Muriac

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. Charles Dickens

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Epicurus

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word
is love. Sophocles

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty,
love, do not require coupons. G.T. Hewitt

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise
this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but
few discover. Joseph Addison

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are
loved for ourselves. Victor Hugo

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. St. Thomas Aquinas

There's nothing worth winning but laughter and the love of friends. Hillaire Belloc

To have a good friend is one of the highest delights of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but
in the worth and choice. Ben Johnson

"We both have families we were born into, but sometimes
families change and we have to build our own . . . for me,
our friendship binds us closer than blood ever could."
Xena to Gabrielle in "Ties That Bind"

When a friend is in trouble, don't ask if there is anything
you can do. Think up something and do it.