I have been doing a lot of thinking about friendship as of late. It is always in adversity that we learn what people are made of. Here are some choice quotes by influential people who view friendship in a similar way. Whether it is an old friend catching up, or even a new friend on the Internet, friendship just makes life that much sweeter. Thank you for being a friend.
Anaïs Nin:
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Ecclesiasticus 6:14:
A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure.
Eleanor Roosevelt:
Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world.
George Eliot:
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
Marcel Proust:
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
7 responses so far ↓
Meander // May 4, 2008 at 10:52 am
friends are so very important…they are the family we get to choose.
johnnypeepers // May 6, 2008 at 1:53 am
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You, too? Thought I was the only one” ~ C.S. Lewis
Best wishes Veronica
Damien // May 6, 2008 at 2:26 pm
A friend will bail you out of jail, but a real friend will be sitting right next to you saying “we fucked up man” haa. I see you are a New Yorker… No wonder we bumped heads haha (Die Red Sox fan). I hope everything went well for you and your operation! Friends are a very essential part of life. Its hard to find any joy in life without friends. I was a pretty big drug user and even worse alcoholic (air go xanax, Knobb Creek, and just being a New Orleans native haha). I started just for fun but soon enough my life had become all about drugs. If it werent for my many great friends I wouldn’t be alive today. Hopefully you will be my first internet friend haha. I won’t hold that you’re a New Yorker against you ( jk) have a great day!
Nick Olds // May 6, 2008 at 7:25 pm
I always keep this in mind:
A friend will help you move. A good friend will help you move…a body
Billy The Blogging Poet // May 10, 2008 at 6:29 pm
Where are you, I’m worried?
romi41 // May 11, 2008 at 7:23 pm
Thanks for posting this, I love that quote by Marcel Proust! It’s so lovely imagery-wise, and so very very true
PS: hope you are recovering well!
bhaanu // May 14, 2008 at 11:05 am
A friend is a flower in my garden .. even one flower makes my garden! A friend is a star in my sky… Sun is also a star! what’s life without a friend? Especially for people like me, who live far away from home, not one relative lives near me,who’s there to be my side when I need help? Only my friends! they r my brothers, sisters, mother, everything. I know the value of friendship.. To me, it’s greater than all my other relations…I have some friends here who are very dear to me and lots of online friends who add value to my life everyday. I never take them for granted, for friendship is like growing a garden, maintaining, weeding unwanted things, strengthening the friendship by kind words and deeds that makes it last long forever! It’ s a noblest thing on earth to have empathy for a fellow human whom we call a friend… Friendship is the sunshine in the day…It’s the moonlight in the night… It makes our life easy..our stay on earth becomes a pleasant one because of our dear friends! Cheers my friend !
Leave a Comment