True Friendship is Like Sound Health; The Value of it is Seldom Known Until it be Lost - - Charles Caleb Colton

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.         Charles Caleb Colton

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.   Anais Nin

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.   Leo Buscaglia

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out.  It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being.  We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.     Albert Schweitzer

Silences make the real conversations between friends.  Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.        Margaret Lee Runbeck

Love is like the wild-rose briar;
Friendship is like the holly-tree.
The holly is dark when the rose briar blooms,
But which will bloom most constantly?
 Emily Brontë

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 not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.    Henri Nouwen

Bad Friend
They gather quickly with plans
At your expense
Fonder memories gather in gutters
It was there in the faces all along
The truth you didn't see
For want of friends
Loneliness does that
On dreary days when yourself is locked

Away……………………. G E Barr

False friends are worse than open enemies.         Proverb

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.    William Blake

 

 Do not put your trust in a bad companion nor even trust an ordinary friend, for if he should get angry with you, he may bring all your secrets to light.         Chanakya

No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want, need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart.          Stephen King