Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
Love is a friendship set to music.
Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.