Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker. – Jean de la Bruyere

As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, were all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything weve done all our lives pointless. – Neale Donald Walsch

You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job. – Laurence J. Peter

The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Southern Mail, 1929, translated from French by Cu