“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”
Jean de La Fontaine
“Friendship is like a picture; first it is sketched; then it is done in neat; then it is made vibrant!”
Judah Isaiah Caleb King Milne (10 years old)
“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”
Elie Wiesel
“Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.”
Sydney Smith
“A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.”
Charles Kingsley
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
Lao Tzu
“Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it.”
Swedish Proverb