Love Must Be Learned

Love must be learned,

and learned again and again;

there is no end to it.

~ Katherine Anne Porter

Guard Within Yourself

Guard within yourself that treasure, kindness.

Know how to give without hesitation,

how to lose without regret,

how to acquire without meanness.

Know how to replace in your heart,

by the happiness of those you love,

the happiness that may be wanting to yourself.

~ George Sand

There's Nothing Worth the Wear

There's nothing worth the wear of winning,

But laughter and the love of friends.

~ Hillaire Belloc

The Bird

The bird a nest, the spider a web,

man friendship.

~ William Blake

Happiness

Happiness seems made to be shared.

~ Jean Racine

The Test of Friendship

The test of friendship is assistance in adversity,

and that, too, unconditional assistance.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

The Loss of a Beloved

The loss of a beloved deserving friend

is the hardest trial of philosophy.

~ Mary Wortley Motague

Above Our Life

Above our life we love a steadfast friend.

~ Christopher Marlowe

Time Draweth Wrinkles

Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face,

but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend,

which neither heat nor cold,

nor misery, nor place,

nor destiny, can alter or diminish.

~ John Lyly

The Happiest Moments

The happiest moments my head knows

are those in which it is pouring forth

its affections to a few esteemed characters.

~ Thomas Jefferson

Friendship is a Union

Friendship is a union of spirits, a marriage
of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue.

~ William Penn

A Real Friend

A real friend is the one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.

~ Walter Winchell

The Only Way

The only way

to have a friend

is to be one.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship is Love

Friendship is love with understanding.

~ Ancient Proverb

A Friend is A Present

A friend is a present which you give yourself.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

That Best Portion

That best portion of a good man's life,

His little, nameless, unremembered acts

Of kindness and of love.

~ William Wordsworth

Love Demands

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

~ George Jean Nathan

Be a Friend

Be a friend to yourself, and others will.

~ Scottish Proverb

I Find Friendship

I find friendship to be like wine,

raw when new, ripened with age,

the true old man's milk

and restorative cordial.

~ Thomas Jefferson

Man Strives for Glory

Man strives for glory, honor, fame,

That all the world may know his name.

Amasses wealth by brain and hand;

Becomes a power in the land.

But when he nears the end of life

And looks back o'er the years of strife,

He finds that happiness depends

On none of these, but love of friends.

~ Anonymous

A Friend

A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.

~ William Shakespeare

Promises

Promises may get friends,

but it is performance

that must nurse and keep them.

~ Owen Felltham

True Happiness

True happiness consists

not in the multitude of friends,

But in the worth and choice.

~ Ben Jonson

He Liked to Like People

He liked to like people;

therefore people liked him.

~ Mark Twain

Our Affections

Our affections are our life.
We live by them;
they supply our warmth.

~ William Ellery Channing

...Being with You

...being with you is like
walking on a very clear morning ---
definitely the sensation
of belonging there.

~ E.B. White

A Friend

A friend is, 

as it were, 

a second self. 

~ Cicero

The Best Smell is Bread

The best smell is bread, the best saver salt,

the best love that of children.

~ George Herbert

All Who Would Win Joy

All who would win joy, must share it;

happiness was born a twin.

~ Lord Byron

Each Friend

Each friend represents a world in us,

a world possibly not born until they arrive,

and it is only by this meeting

that a world is born.

~ Anais Nin

Thou Wert My Guide

Thou wert my guide, philosopher and friend.

~ Alexander Pope