Quotes to inspire and reflect

But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.

The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

Love is when two people know everything about each other and are still friends.

The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

Love is more afraid of change than destruction.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.

You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself.

The heart was made to be broken.

When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.

Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.

Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!

Love is being stupid together.

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.

So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.

A rose without thorns is like love without heartbreak; it doesn't make sense.

We love the things we love for what they are.

The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.

If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.

When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.

Many men kill themselves for love, but many more women die of it.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.

Sex is like money; only too much is enough.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one you’ll become a philosopher .

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.

Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.

And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.

My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.

The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.

Love is often the fruit of marriage.