Jane Austen - Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Jane Austen - “To love is to burn, to be on fire.”

Jane Green - I think friendship is more important than love, but that love that grows out of friendship is the very best of all.

Jane Austen - Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

Jeffrey Archer - Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.

John Lennon - It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love, or how you love. It matters only that you love.

MB - Love yourself when you're tired. Love yourself when you're weak. Love yourself when you're confused. Love yourself when you're broken. Love yourself when you're restored.

Elie Wiesel - Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

Sarah Fielding - The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer - Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.

F. Scott Fitzgerald - You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known – and even that is an understatement.

Oscar Wilde - Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Benjamin Franklin - Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

Alexander Pope - Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

Jonathan Swift - Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed

Jane Levy - I keep all of my letters, postcards, and thank you notes. I'll keep them forever!