Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!
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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me read more
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by read more
... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a read more
My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and read more
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, we will stand by each other, however it blow.
Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, we will stand by each other, however it blow.
To find a friend one must close one eye -- to keep him, two.
To find a friend one must close one eye -- to keep him, two.
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it read more
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
