Quotes on Friendship

Today my thoughts don't turn to love, but friendship. Okay, so I am odd.

No one needs to apologize to me about not remembering"firsts' "lasts" and inbetweens anymore...

Just call me friend..and treat me like one....and I will draw you all the hearts and cupids you could ever care to see...LOL

Found these quotes today, whilst thinking about friends....but I will begin by adding my own..

"Friends, like the flowers of the fields, are put there by God, to brighten our day!"

But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one's deepest as well as one's most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely.  Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.  ~Dinah Craik, A Life for a Life, 1859

We are not enemies, but friends.  We must not be enemies.  Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.  The mystic cords of memory will swell when again touched as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature.  ~Abraham Lincoln

The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another.  Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart.  ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.  ~Elisabeth Foley

Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.  ~Emil Ludwig

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.  ~Thomas A. Edison

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.  ~Plutarch

"my friend, I will remember you, think of you, pray for you....and when another day is through....I'll still be friends with you...John Denver"