Two terracotta pots with seedlings leaning toward each other under a small twig arch.

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Charlotte Brontë

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

Lasting friendship, this says, needs you to value the other person for who they are, not for what they give you. Love based on your own benefit is shaky ground; caring for their sake is what makes it solid.

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