Interesting E-mail
Here are some E-mail that I
liked because it added something to my knowledge.
Hi Samirah ( sorry to call
you smirah without Miss)
Pleas read the below story
and give your comments about it and your opinion about the friendship maybe
you heard this story before but no harm to read it again and write to me
your view
please excuse my language because
I am not so flaunt in English language
best regards
M., H.
The Story
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 mine 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
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.
Tonight, before you tuck yourself
in for the night, say a little
prayer that God will give you
the strength you need to accept people as
they are, and to help us all
be more understanding of those who are
different from us!!!
There's a miracle called Friendship
that dwells in the heart. You
don't know how it happens
or when it gets started, but you know the
special lift it always brings.
And you realize that Friendship is
God's most precious gift!
Friends are a very rare jewel,
indeed. They make you smile and
encourage you to succeed.
They lend an ear, they share a word of
praise, and they always want
to open their hearts to us.
I have nothing to say but to
agree completely with the above story. Thanks alot for sending it to me.
"Samirah"
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Famous Sayings About Friendship
I recieved this long e-mail
from "Rudolph George"
...Nice selection, Thanks alot..
"We are so very rich if we
know just a few people in a way in which we know no others."
-Catherine Bromwell Booth
"Excuse me but can I be you
for awhile?"
-Tori Amos
"Do not fear your enemies.
The worst they can do is kill you . Do not fear friends. At worst, they
may betray you. Fear
those who do not care; they
neither kill nor betray, but betrayal and murder exists because of their
silent consent."
-Bruno Jasienski (Yasensky)
"True friendship comes when
silence between two people is comfortable."
-David Tyson Gentry
"I met you as stranger
I leave you as a friend
I hope we meet in heaven
Where friendship never ends."
-Unknown
"A lifetime?
I spent one today with my friend."
-Flavia Weedn
"Only your real friends will
tell you when your face is dirty."
-Sicilian Proverb
"A friend is a person who knows
all about you but likes you anyway."
-Unknown
"Cos people believe that they're
Gonna get away for the summer
But you and I, we live and
die
The world's still spinning
'round
We don't know why, why."
-Oasis
"Tis easy enough to be pleasant,
When life flows like a song; But the man worthwhile is the one who will
smile When
everything goes dead wrong."
-Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"What is a friend? One soul
dwelling in two bodies."
-Aristotle
"There are not many things
in life more beautiful as true fruendship, and not many things more uncommon."
-Unknown
"Sometimes you have to grow
farther apart to keep growing together."
-Unknown
"A friend is a gift you give
yourself."
-Robert Louis Stevenson
"Things are never quite as
scary whan you have a best friend."
-Bill Waterson
"Yesterday brought the beginning,
tomorrow brings the end but somewhere in the middle we've become the best
of
friends."
-Unknown
"Happiness isn't the easiet
thing to find , but one place you're guaranteed is in a friend's smile."
-Allison Poler
"A friend is someone who truly
cares,
A friend is someone who's always
there,
A friend will be there in times
of woe,
Talking, laughing and sometimes
letting go,
times alone we sometimes need,
But coming back we will do
indeed,
There may be times we may not
agree,
For you are you and I am me,
We may argue because of that
fact,
But our power of friendship
will bring us back,
Cause the love in our hearts
we feel inside Is not something we would ever hide, So come to me in times
of need, Cause
you my dear always have a friend
in me."
-Smiles
"Never explain-your friends
do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway."
-Elbert Hubbard
"Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things of life."
-James F.Byrnes
"To have a friend, be a friend."
-Old saying
" I'd like to be the sort of
friend that you have been to me, I'd like to be the help that you've been
always glad to be; I'd like
to mean as much to you each
minute of the day, as you have meant old friend of mine, to me along the
way."
-Edgar A. Guest
"Don't be dismayed at goodbyes.
A farewell is before you can meet again. And meeting again after a moment
or lifetime is
certain for those who are friends."
-Richard Bach
"Friendship is one mind in
two bodies."
-Mencius
"Show me a genuine case of
platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces."
-Austin O'Malley
"Acquaintance: a degree of
friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate
when he is rich or
famous."
-Ambrose Bierce
"A home-made friend wears longer
than one you buy in the market."
-Austin O'Malley
"The only way to have a friend
is to be one."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Flatter me, and I may not
believe you.
Criticize me, and I may not
like you.
Ignore me, and I may not forgive
you.
Encourage me, and I may not
forget you."
-William Arthur Ward
"Friendship is more tragic
than love. It lasts longer."
-Oscar Wilde
"Friendship is like money,
easier made than kept."
-Samuel Butler
"A friend is one who knows
us, but loves us anyway."
-Fr. Jerome Cummings
"The real test of friendship
is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together
those moments of
life that are utterly simple?
They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number
as their most sacred
experiences. "
-Eugene Kennedy
"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."
-Henri Nouwen
"Friends need not agree in
everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships
of the same intimacy.
On the contrary, in friendship
union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and
less subject to trouble
than marriage is."
-George Santayana
"...Come my friends./ 'Tis
not too late to seek a newer world...for my purpose holds/ To sail beyond
the sunset, and the
baths/ Of all the western stars
until I die.../ To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Piglet sidled up to Pooh from
behind. 'Pooh!' he whispered. 'Yes, Piglet?' 'Nothing,' said Piglet, taking
Pooh's paw. 'I just
wanted to be sure of you.'"
-Winnie the Pooh
"Choose your friends by their
character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character
makes no
sense, and choosing your friends
by their color is unthinkable."
-Anon
"'Where are you going today?'
says Pooh. 'Well that's very odd cos I was too.' Let's go togther,' says
Pooh, says he. 'Let's
go together,' says Pooh."
-Christopher Robin
"Some people come into our
lives, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same. "
-Unknown
"Even the greatest of men cannot
rejoice in a friend's triumph without envy."
-Unknown
"In the End, we will remember
not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. "
-Martin Luther King Jr.
"Some birds aren't meant to
be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the
part of you that
knows it was a sin to lock
them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend."
-Shawshank Redemption
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