Courtesy of Henrik Edberg The Positivity Blog
“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
“Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.”
Wayne Dyer
“It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.”
Bertrand Russell
“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?”
Eugene Kennedy
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
Lao-Tzu
“If you aren’t good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you’ll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren’t even giving to yourself.”
Barbara De Angelis
“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.”
Seneca
“Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.”
Bob Marley
“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.”
Rumi
“In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.”
Albert Schweitzer
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
William Shakespeare
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
Audrey Hepburn
“You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness.”
Julia Roberts
“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”
Ernest Hemingway
“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself — and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.”
Jim Morrison
“A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.”
Arnold H. Glasgow
“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”
Anais Nin
“Just because it didn’t last forever, doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth your while.”
Unknown
