It is better to be in chains with friends , than to be in a garden with strangers."
-Persian Proverb
Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness. -- Lois L. Kaufman
"Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe unto him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up."
-- The Bible: Ecclesiastes 4:9-10.
"A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself."
-- James Boswell (1763)
"My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private."
-- Solomon Ibn Gabirol
"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures."
-- Kahil Gibran
It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship. -- Mary Dixon Thayer
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. -- Leo Buscaglia
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
-Sydney Smith
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
-Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
Good friends are like stars....You don't always see them, but you know they are always there.
When it hurts to look back, and you're scared to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there. But if it happens that he is not around, drop by and look for angez.
One story below - Unconditional love.
A story is told about a soldier who was finally coming home after having fought in Vietnam. He called his parents from San Francisco.
"Mom and Dad, I'm coming home, but I've a favor to ask. I have a friend I'd like to bring home with me."
"Sure," they replied, "we'd love to meet him."
"There's something you should know the son continued, "he was hurt pretty badly in the fighting. He stepped on a land mind and lost an arm and a leg. He has nowhere else to go, and I want him to come live with us."
"I'm sorry to hear that, son. Maybe we can help him find somewhere to live."
"No, Mom and Dad, I want him to live with us."
"Son," said the father, "you don't know what you're asking. Someone with such a handicap would be a terrible burden on us. We have our own lives to live, and we can't let something like this interfere with our lives. I think you should just come home and forget about this guy. He'll find a way to live on his own."
At that point, the son hung up the phone. The parents heard nothing more from him. A few days later, however, they received a call from the San Francisco police. Their son had died after falling from a building, they were told. The police believed it was suicide. The grief-stricken parents flew to San Francisco and were taken to the city morgue to identify the body of their son. They recognized him, but to their horror they also discovered something they didn't know, their son had only one arm and one leg.
The parents in this story are like many of us. We find it easy to love those who are good-looking or fun to have around, but we don't like people who inconvenience us or make us feel uncomfortable. We would rather stay away from people who aren't as healthy, beautiful, or smart as we are. Thankfully, there's someone who won't treat us that way. Someone who loves us with an unconditional love that welcomes us into the forever family, regardless of how messed up we are.
Blahs, had enough of quotes..
Read like 4 websites full of them..
LOL. All the friendship quotes I dumped over here,
and motivational&optimistic quotes in my blog.
BLAHHHS. nites. :))
-Goo Angez @ [[9:56 PM]]