Reflections For A Special Friend

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you because you have done more than any creed could have done to make me good, and more than any fate could have done to make me happy. You have done it without a touch, without a word, without a sign. You have done it by being yourself. Perhaps that is what being a friend means, after all.

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

In lonliness, in sickness, in confusion - the mere knowledge of friendship makes it possible to endure, even if the friend is powerless to help. Is is enough that they exist. Friendship is not diminished by the distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply. It is from these things that it flowers. ~~ Pam Brown

Trust those who say - "I made a mistake."

Take time for friendship when you can, the hours fly swiftly and the need that presses on your fellow man may fade away at equal speed, and you may sigh before the end that you have failed to play the friend. Not all life's pride is born of fame, not all the joy of work is won, too late we hang our heads in shame, Remembering the good we could have done; too late we wished that we had stayed to comfort those who called for aid. ~~ Edgar A Guest

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. ~~ Mahatma Gandhi

The more you give, the more you get; the more you laugh - the less you fret; the more you do unselfishly the more you live abundantly. The more of everything you share the more you'll always have to spare; that life is good, and friends are kind. For only what we give away enriches us from day to day.