Sometimes you don't realize what is missing in your life until it arrives.

Araceli M. Ream

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

Clifton Fadiman

We cannot really love anybody without whom we never laugh.

Alice Reppler

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

Marilyn Monroe

Genuine love seems to love "in spite of". Of course it is easy to love the parts we agree with, but when we learn to embrace the parts we disagree with, that is when liking turns into loving.

Haemin Sunim

The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

Hubert Humphrey