FRIENDSHIP

"Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is not so much our friends help that helps us, as the confidence of their help."-- Epicurus (341–270 BC), Greek Philosopher

" We don't have to change friends as long as we understand that friends change."

"People need to identify with the similarities of each other, and not their differences."

"Never look down on someone unless you're going to help them up."

"When the character of a man is not clear to you , look at his friends."

"Our job is not to straighten each other out, but to help each other up."

"The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job." Edith Wharton

"Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead." Anna Cummins

"Friendship needs no words." Dag Hammarskjold

"Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence." Sydney Smith

"Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title." Virginia Woolf

"We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend." Robert Louis Stevenson

"A true friend will stand in for you stand up for you, and stand by you. Nicole Beale

"Making a friend takes a moment, being a friend takes a lifetime. Anonymous

"Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, But it requires a very fine nature To sympathize with a friend's success." Oscar Wilde

"Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends." Richard Bach

"What is a friend? I will tell you, It is someone you dare to be yourself." Frank Crane

"'Stay' is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary" Amos Bronson Alcott

"That friendship only is indeed genuine when two friends, without speaking a word to each other, can nevertheless find happiness in being together." George Ebers

"We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over, so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over." Samuel Johnson

"How rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship." La Rochefoucauld

"Truth and tears clear the way to a deep and lasting friendship." --Unknown

"A good friend remembers what we were and sees what we can be." --Unknown

"A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away." -Arabian Proverb

"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself." Victor Hugo

"It is only by striving for beauty and love in all our relationships, that we can hope to become guardians of our individual and collective futures." --- Roland Stahler ---

"Nothing is great like friendship on earth, No jewel No pearl has got it's worth. No one except a friend can be trusted, Your life will never ever get rusted." --- Prakash ---

"The best mirror is a friend's eye." Author Unknown

"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The time to make friends is before you need them." Proverb

"A friend is a gift you give yourself." Robert Louis Stevenson

"Friendship is love with wings." Anonymous

"A friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." Unknown

"To late we learn, a man must hold his friend unjudged, accepted, and trusted to the end." John Boyle O'Reilly

"Hold a true friend in both your hands." Nigerian Proverb

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words." Unknown

"There is no greater blessing than a friend who's there when good times aren't." Unknown

"As fire and hearth are inseprable, so are the hearts of faithful friends." Unknown

"Dear friends are never forgotten: they live within your heart." Unknown

"If I had a single flower for every time I thought about, you I could walk forever in my garden." Claudia A. Grandi

"Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same." Unknown

"Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly." Unknown