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.

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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. - Simone de Beauvoir

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We must be our own before we can be another's. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

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Friends are like spaghetti, they should stick together. The only way to have a friend is to be one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you. ― Elbert Hubbard

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When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior. - Simone de Beauvoir

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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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