FRIENDS 1X

"The glory of friendship is 
not the outstretched hand, 
not the kindly smile, 
not the joy of companionship; 
it is the spiritual inspiration 
that comes to one when he
discovers that someone 
believes in him and is willing 
to trust him with his friendship."
... Ralph Waldo Emerson 






The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
... Helen Keller







He who has a thousand friends 
Has not a friend to spare, 
While he who has one enemy 
Shall meet him everywhere. 

--Ralph Waldo Emerson





If you love someone, set him free....
If he comes back, he's yours.
If he does not, it is never meant to be... 
~author unknowm~





The person who tries to live alone
 will not succeed as a human being.
His heart withers if it does not answer
 another heart. His mind shrinks away if
he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts 
and finds no other inspiration. -- Pearl S. Buck--



A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to
have a friend; one human soul
whom we can trust utterly; who knows the 
best and the worst of us, and who
loves us in spite of all our faults; who will
 speak the honest truth to us,
while the world flatters us to our face,
 and laughs at us behind our back;
who will give us counsel and reproof in the
 day of prosperity and self-conceit; but who,
 again, will comfort and encourage us in the day of
difficulty and sorrow, when the world leaves us 
alone to fight our own battle as we can. -Kingsley








TWO ARE BETTER THAN ONE


"Two are better than one,
 because they have a good 
reward to their toil. 
For if one falls,
 one will lift up the other; 
but woe is to one who falls alone,
for he has no one to get him up.
 Again, if two lie together, 
they can keep
each other warm,
 but how can one keep warm alone? 
Even if one prevails against the other, 
two shall always withstand one."
 --Book of Ecclesiastes,
Chapter 4, verses 9-12, from the Holy Bible 




We cannot tell the precise moment
 when friendship is formed.
As in filling a
vessel drop by drop,
 there is at last a drop which makes it run over; 
so in a series of kindnesses,
there is at last one which makes the heart run
over. -James Boswell




Don't flatter yourself that friendship
authorizes you to say disagreeable
things to your intimates.
The nearer you come into relation
with a person, the more necessary
do tact and courtesy become. 
--Oliver Wendell Holmes--





IN TUNE
I don't remember when I first began
To call you "friend."
 One day, I only know,
The vague companionship that I'd seen grow
So imperceptibly, turned gold, and ran
In tune with all I'd thought, or dared to plan.
Since then, you've been to me like music, low,
Yet clear; a fire that throws its warm, bright glow
On me as on each woman, child, and man,
And common thing that lies within its rays;
You've been like wholesome food that stays the cry
Of hungry, groping minds; and like a star -
A self-sufficient star - you make me raise
My utmost being to a higher sky,
In tune, like you, with earth, yet wide, and far.
-Florence Steigerwalt



 
OLD FRIENDSHIP
Beautiful and rich is an old friendship,
Grateful to the touch as ancient ivory,
Smooth as aged wine, or sheen of tapestry
Where light has lingered, intimate and long.
Full of tears and warm is an old friendship
That asks no longer deeds of gallantry,
Or any deed at all - save that the friend shall be
Alive and breathing somewhere, like a song.
-Eunice Tietjens



There are those who pass like ships in the night
Who meet for a moment, then sail out of sight
With never a backwards glance of regret
Folks we know briefly then quickly forget
....
Then there are those friends who sail together
through quiet waters and stormy weather
Helping each other through joy and through strife
And they are the kind that give meaning to life.
--Author unknown






No moving parts, no batteries,
no monthly payments and no fees.
Inflation proof, non-taxable,
in fact, it's quite relaxable!
It can't be stolen, won't pollute,
one size fits all, do not dilute.
It uses little energy,
but yields results enormously.
Relieves your tension and your stress,
invigorate your happiness;
Combats depression, makes you beam,
and elevates your self esteem!

Your circulation it corrects
without unpleasant side effects
It is, I think, the perfect drug:
May I prescribe, my friend .... THE HUG !!
(and, of course, fully returnable!)



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