Friendship..

::17-06-05::

"Friends are born, not made." - Author: Henry Adams

To all my dear friends out there..

I have a picture that sits on my desktop at work. When the day gets long, or my boss/clients get impatient, I remember to take a moment and look at the photo. It is a picture of my best friends taken years ago. It reminds me of the good times we have shared and the support that their friendship still gives me today.

Even though our lives have gone in different directions, the bond we created has kept us close. Rare is the week that I don’t get a sms on my cell phone from one of them “just checking in” or a letter in the mailbox with the latest and updates news. Frequently I get e-mail messages with a joke for the day or words of comfort for something going on in my life. My friends have shown up for surprise visit to my office, sent sms just to say hello for no reason, and one of them even bought me a present on my birthday even though i'm not expecting anything from them on my birthday,only just a little thought on my birthday should be fine and i'm really blessed for that.

Our friendship has carried me through a lot of difficult experiences, and has enriched the good ones. It is the kind of friendship that outlasts disagreements, changes, and separation. Which reminds me, I have a few e-mails to answer.

BTW, just a few quotes of friendship i wanna share today where i found it through the internet last few weeks i guess..... It's really kewl and mesmerize.... So sit back guys and enjoy!! ;)

Cheers!

"Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world." - Author: (Anna) Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), American diplomat, writer, US First Lady

"Friendship is love with understanding." -Author: Ancient Proverb

"With clothes the new are best, with friends the old are best" - Author: Anonymous

"True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost." - Author: Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832), Writer, author

"Some of the most rewarding and beautiful moments of a friendship happen in the unforeseen open spaces between planned activities. It is important that you allow these spaces to exist." - Author: Christine Leefeldt

"A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes."- Author: Doug Larson

" 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." - Author: E. W. Howe

"A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway." - Author: Fr. Jerome Cummings

"Once in a while you meet someone, and soon you both discover the two of you are truly something special to each other... you share your thoughts and feelings so relaxed, so openly, and right away you know your friendship's truly meant to be." - Author: Gary Harrington

" Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words." - Author: George Eliot (1819-80), [Mary Ann Evans] British writer

"The language of friendship is not words but meanings."-Author: Henry David Thoreau (1817-62), American writer, author, naturalist, "Civil Disobedience" "Walden"

"Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels." - Author: Joan Walsh Anglund (b. 1926), American children's author, illustrator

" One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood." - Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4BC?-AD 65), [The Younger] Roman Stoic philosopher, writer, tutor

"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."-Author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton

"The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life long experience of the greatest value to themselves and to all their circle of acquaintance and of activity; but for this type of friendship both a rare man and a rare woman are needed. Perhaps it should be added that either the man or the woman thus deeply bound in lifelong friendship who seeks marriage must find a still rarer man or woman to wed, to make such a three cornered comradeship a permanent success." - Author: Anna Garlin Spencer

"The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention…. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words. " - Author: Rachel Naomi Remen