People's lives change. To keep all your old friends is like keeping all your old clothes -- pretty soon your closet is so jammed and everything so crushed you can't find anything to wear. Help these friends when they need you; bless the years and happy times when you meant a lot to each other, but try not to have the guilts if new people mean more to you now.
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When a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up read more
When a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to read more
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You, too? I thought I was the read more
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You, too? I thought I was the only one.'
Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.
Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, read more
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away. -George Eliot.
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you read more
I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.
