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Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.

— Kahlil Gibran The Prophet (1923)

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The seasons shall tire and the years grow old, ere they exhaust these words: "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do."

Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

The Vision: Reflections on the Way of the Soul (1994)

The mind weighs and measures but it is the spirit that reaches the heart of life and embraces the secret; and the seed of the spirit is deathless.

Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)

And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

The Prophet (1923)

Man struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him.”

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Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth, a trusted friend is the best relative, Nibbana is the greatest bliss.

Gautama Buddha

Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

Sanu Sharma

Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree;
Oh the joys that came down shower-like,
Of friendship, love, and liberty,
Ere I was old!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Anaïs Nin Diary entries (1914)

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