Romance is the flower, but friendship is the root.
Friendship needs no promises, no demands and no expectations. Just sincerity and trust.
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
— Samuel Butler
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
— Jane Austen
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island…to find one real friend in a lifetime is a good fortune;to keep him is a blessing.
— Baltasar Gracián
Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.
– Osho