“If more people recognized the difference between friendship and mere attraction, and how love must partake of both to prosper, I expect there'd be more happy people.”

“The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other.”

Ashleigh Brilliant (1933) American author and cartoonist

“She smiled. “I wouldn’t mind. Is that a difference between men and women or between you and me?”
“I think it’s a difference between you and merely sane people.””

Joe Haldeman book Forever Peace

“Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting.”

Frank Delaney (1942–2017) Irish writer and journalist

“There is something deeply attractive, at least to quite a lot of people, about squalor, misery, and vice. They are regarded as more authentic, and certainly more exciting, than cleanliness, happiness, and virtue.”

Theodore Dalrymple (1949) English doctor and writer

“For friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.”
Nam et secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia et adversas partiens communicansque leviores.

Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman

“People don’t automatically appreciate the difference between listening and hearing any more than they do the difference between looking and seeing.”

Ivor Tiefenbrun (1946) Scottish businessman

“To love one's work is a way of loving oneself, and leaves one freer to love other people.
But beware the difference between loving one's work and being merely engrossed in it.”

Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist

“In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.”

François de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680) French author of maxims and memoirs

“Nourished people, people who love and care for themselves, are also more efficient and nicer to be around. When you give yourself permission to relax, people will feel more relaxed around you; your environment will become more harmonious. Balance—between work and pleasure, giving and receiving, seriousness and levity—creates a happy healthy life.”

Kathy Freston American self-help writer