Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.- Ann Landers

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.- Khalil Gibran

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Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Why fit in when you were born to stand out? — Dr. Seuss

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The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion. - Simone de Beauvoir

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We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

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Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.

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The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

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