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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.

Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy.

You are good when you strive to give of yourself.

Your friend is your needs answered.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.

Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It’s splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.

I don’t know that she is as amusing as she was when she was a child, but she makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them.

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way

Of Severus, my brother, I learned to love my kinsmen, to love truth, to love justice.

Now friendship may be thus defined: a complete accord on all subjects human and divine, joined with mutual goodwill and affection.

it is in regard to friendship, as in so many other things, so supple and sensitive that it expands, so to speak, at a friend's good fortune, contracts at his misfortunes

Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

None other than this long brown land lays such a hold on the affections. The rainbow hills, the tender bluish mists, the luminous radiance of the spring, have the lotus charm.

Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I allowed myself to be borne away by them, and forgetting my solitude and deformity, dared to be happy.

We sought one another long before we met, and by the characters we heard of one another

Whereas in friendship, 'tis a general and universal fire, but temperate and equal, a constant established heat, all gentle and smooth, without poignancy or roughness.

If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.

In love there is no first nor last!

Only, my dear wife, let us both be patient at this calamity.

intimacy is the full enjoyment of friendship, and most pleasant is companying with and spending the day with a friend

Otherwise, my dear wife, we shall seem discontented at the birth of our little daughter, if we consider our position before her birth as more perfect.

Only love is motion and rest in one.

Only in love are unity and duality not at variance.

Our heart ever changes its place till it finds love, and then it has its rest.