“If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rather than for our own.”
More from Charlotte Brontë on Love
“Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.”
“[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.”
“Your mind is my treasure, and if it were broken, it would be my treasure still”
“If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.”
“If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.”
Others on Love
Atticus Poetry
20 quotes“I’ll let you into my heart but wipe your feet at the door.”
Pablo Neruda
19 quotes“You are like nobody since I love you.”
Leo Buscaglia
17 quotes“Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to lov...”
Lord Byron
16 quotes“I have not loved the world nor the world me I have not flatter'd its rank breath nor bow'd To its idolatries a patien...”
Khalil Gibran
16 quotes“And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
Mother Teresa
15 quotes“When you judge someone you have no time to love them.”
Nicholas Sparks
15 quotes“Gifts of the heart can't be claimed by anyone except the giver.”
John Donne
14 quotes“If ever any beauty I did see,Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.”
Rumi
14 quotes“There are as many ways of loving as there are people, and that wildflower variety is the great beauty of this dimension...”
Shakespeare
14 quotes“I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.”
Balzac
13 quotes“The more a man judges, the less he loves”
Gabriel García Márquez
13 quotes“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”