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.
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There are no laws, there are no rules, just grab your friend and love him.
Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.
We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said, that "The only way to have a friend is to be one."
Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people, but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.
The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.
Where minds differ and opinions swerve, there is scant a friend in that company.
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