Love is...

Love is energy of life.

--Robert Browning

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

--Pablo Picasso

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others,

and the delight in the recognition.
--Alexander Smith

Sooner or later we begin to understand that love is more than verses on valentines
and romance in the movies. We begin to know that love is here and now, real and
true, the most important thing in our lives. For love is the creator of our
favourite memories and the foundation of our fondest dreams. Love is a promise
that is always kept, a fortune that can never be spent, a seed that can flourish
in even the most unlikely of places. And this radiance that never fades, this
mysterious and magical joy, is the greatest treasure of all - one known only by
those who love.
--Author Unknown

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not
proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps
no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It
always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
--1 Corinthians 13:4-7

Love is merely madness...

--William Shakespeare

True love is like a ghost;

everyone talks of it, few have seen it.
--La Rochefoucauld

Love is like a Rhino, short-sighted,

but always willing to find a way.
--Author Unknown

If I know what love is, it is because of you.

--Herman Hesse

Love is an ocean of emotions, entirely surrounded by expenses.

--Thomas Dewar

Love is like a flower: Once you pick it, it slowly dies

--Author Unknown

Love is the passionate and abiding desire on the part of two or more people to
produce together conditions under which each can be and spontaneously express, his
real self; to produce together an intellectual soil and an emotional climate in
which each can flourish, far superior to what either could achieve alone.
--Author Unknown

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other,
each is enriched by the other.
--Felix Adler
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure,
without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in
the heart.
--Honore de Balzac

Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the
hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith,
and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
--Erich Fromm

Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others, and
others' love to us.
--Thomas Trahern

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you
are left holding only yourself.
--Leo Buscaglia

Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water
of adversity and grief.
--Author Unknown

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
--Louise Hay

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in
its defense.
--Mark A. Overby

Love is the seed of all hope. It is the enticement to trust, to risk, to try, to
go on.
--Gloria Gaither

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand.
--Mother Theresa

Looking for Love

To bring somebody into your life, take a step into theirs.

--from Just One Fool Thing After Another

He drew a circle that shut me out-

Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But Love and I had the wit to win;
We drew a circle that took him in!
--Edwin Markham

The minute I heard my first love story,

I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along.
--Maulana Jalalu'ddin Rumi

Therefore, if you desire love, try to realize that the only way to get love is by
giving love. That the more you give, the more you get."
--Stranger By The River

I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone.
People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.
--Maya Angelou

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
--Mother Theresa

If you can reach out to another, then you can hold the world in your hand.
--J. Clessius

True love is not something that comes everyday, follow your heart, it knows the
right answer.
--Author Unknown

Those that go searching for love, only manifest their own lovelessness. And the
loveless never find love, only the loving find love. And they never have to seek
for it.
--H. Lawrence

Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.
--Loretta Young

Seek Love in the pity of others' woe,

In the gentle relief of another's care,
In the darkness of night and the winter's snow,
In the naked and outcast, seek Love there!
William Blake

The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us.

Paul Coelho

The art of love... is largely the art of persistence.

Albert Ellis

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
Mark Twain

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
Tom Robbins

Love is not about finding the right person, but creating a right relationship.
It's not about how much love you have in the beginning but how much love you build
till the end.
Author Unknown

If it is meant to be, our hearts will find each other when we meet. And if our
hearts melt together so will our bodies and souls. Then every word and every touch
will fuel our passion flame. I will be yours, you will be mine, and we will be
one.
Author Unknown

Love is not automatic. It takes conscious practice and awareness, just like
playing the piano or golf. However, you have ample opportunities to practice.
Everyone you meet can be your practice session.
Doc Childre and Sara Paddison

The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another
human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as
the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is
a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately
wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident.
Sir Hugh Walpoe

Falling In Love

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination

and bottling the common-sense.
--Helen Rowland

You'll discover that real love is millions of miles

past falling in love with anyone or anything.
When you make that one effort to feel
compassion instead of blame or self-blame,
the heart opens again and continues opening.
--Sara Paddison

Falling in love is not an extension of one's limits or boundaries;

it is a partial and temporary collapse of them.
--M Scott Peck

Never frown...even when you're sad you never know when someone is falling in love
with your smile.
--Author Unknown

One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with
him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you maybe fall
in again.
--Judith Viorst

A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.
--Woodrow Wyatt
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Wise men say, only fools rush in. But I can't help falling in love with you.
--Elvis Presley

When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is
seeking but his own.
--Lenore Coffee

Love is like water; We can fall in it. We can drown in it. And we can't live with
out it.
--Author Unknown

It's easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
--Bertrand Russell

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

--Benjamin Franklin

Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a
girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.
--Sir Winston Churchill

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human

loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade
through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
--Anna Louise Strong

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same
person.
--Mignon McLaughlin

To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.
--Bess Myerson

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

--Jorge Luis Borges

When I saw you I fell in love. And you smiled because you knew.
--Arrigo Boito

Everyone says you only fall in love once but that's not true,
every time I hear your voice I fall in love all over again.
--Author Unknown

I am in love - and, my God, it's the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I
tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in
love, if you haven't done so already. You are wasting your life.
--D.H. Lawrence

In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he
loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to
make him fall in love with her.
--Marcel Proust

Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever.
--Author Unknown

The mark of a true crush, Is that you fall in love first, And grope for reasons
afterward.
--Shana Alexander

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a
disease.
--Nancy Mitford
Do you want to know the easiest way to fall in love? Just associate with all your
pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.
--Richard Bandler

Love is 3/4 dream and 1/4 reality. Problems usually arise when you fall in love
with the dream and not the reality. But, yet you find true love when you fall in
love with both.
--Author Unknown

Love is a thing, well, its kind of like quicksand:

The more you are in it, the deeper you sink.
And when it hits you, you've just got to fall.
--UB40

Love & Absence

Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow

feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.
--Kay Knudsen

That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance

of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.
--George Eliot

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small,

it enkindles the great.
--Comte DeBussy-Rabutin

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly
walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
--Edna St Vincent Millay

Can miles truly separate you from friends? If you want to be with someone you
love, aren't you already there?
--Richard Bach

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of
separation.
--Khalil Gibran

Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it;

the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.
--William Shakespeare

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

--Thomas Haynes Bayly

Absence - that common cure of love.

--Lord Byron
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
--Thomas Fuller

The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence.

--Edward Thomas

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; And every little absence is an
age.
--John Dryden

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

--William Shakespeare

Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart.
--Author Unknown

There is one pain, I often feel, which you will never know.
It's caused by the absence of you.
--Ashleigh Brilliant

Days of absence, sad and dreary,

Clothed in sorrow's dark array,
Days of absence, I am weary;
She I love is far away.
--Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Absence does not make the heart grow fonder,

but it sure heats up the blood.
--Elizabeth Ashley

Absence weakens mediocre passions and increases great ones,

as the wind blows out candles and kindles fires.
--Fran�ois de la Rochefoucauld

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

--Benjamin Franklin

Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.

--Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

What shall I do with all the days and hours

That must be counted ere I see thy face?
How shall I charm the interval that lowers
Between this time and that sweet time of grace?
--Frances Anne Kemble

How like a winter hath my absence been

From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!
What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen!
What old December's bareness everywhere!
William Shakespeare

Love & Beauty

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the
sensitive soul to tears.
--Edgar Allan Poe

Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an

arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense of
fineness. What ails us is that our sense of beauty is so bruised and blunted, we
miss all the best.
--D. H. Lawrence

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an
ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive
it.
--Ivan Panin

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched ...
but are felt in the heart.
--Helen Keller

In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful
things that God makes are his gift to all alike.
--Harriet Beecher Stowe

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or
we find it not.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than logician
or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
--George Santayana
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Our hearts are drunk with a beauty our eyes could never see.
--George W. Russell

Beauty is not in the face; Beauty is a light in the heart.

--Kahlil Gibran

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

--John Keats

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where
nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
--John Muir

The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting
the heart asunder.
--Virginia Woolf

Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think
you've got.
--Sophia Loren

How many loved your moments of glad grace.

And loved your beauty with love false or true.
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
--W.B. Yeats (The Countess Kathleen)

Truth, and goodness, and beauty are but different faces of the same all.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty... when you look into a woman's eyes

and see what is in her heart.
--Nate Dircks

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows.

For love is the beauty of the soul.
--St. Augustine

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.
--Friedrich Schiller

Do you love me because I'm beautiful,

or am I am beautiful because you love me?
--Oscar Hammerstein, II

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen.

But if you are beautiful at sixty,
it will be your soul's own doing.
--Marie Stopes

Some people, no matter how old they get,

never lose their beauty -
they merely move it from their faces
into their hearts.
--Martin Buxbaum

Love & Heartache

Love does not die easily. It is a living thing. It thrives

in the face of all life's hazards, save one - neglect.
--James Bryden

The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish,

but that they cease to love.
--W. Somerset Maugham

Love is sometimes denied, sometimes lost,

sometimes unrecognized, but in the end,
always found with no regrets, forever valued
and kept treasured.
--Author Unknown

No man, or woman, was ever cured of love by discovering the falseness of his or
her lover. The living together for three long, rainy days in the country has done
more to dispel love than all the perfidies in love that have ever been committed.
--Arthur Helps

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment,

Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
--Jean Pierre Claris De Florian

There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
--Mother Theresa

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.
--Benjamin Disraeli

The courses of true love never did run smooth

--William Shakespeare

Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.

--French Proverb

Pains of love be sweeter far Than any other pleasures are.

--John Dryden

It is better to have loved and lost

Than never to have loved at all.
--Alfred Lord Tennyson

Two things you should NEVER say to the one you love: "I love you, but..." and "If
you loved me, you would..." Should you really qualify love with conditions?
--Author Unknown

Nuptial love maketh mankind; friendly love perfecteth it; but wanton love
corrupteth and embaseth it.
--Francis Bacon

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify
the heart.
--Washington Irving

You can't force someone to love you; all you can do is become someone who can be
loved; the rest is up the them.
--Author Unknown

Falling in love is awfully simple, but falling out of love is simply awful.
--Author Unknown

The most painful love there is, is the love left unshown
A love that cannot be expressed, affection left unknown
The love that withholds touching, afraid of what it would say
And the most painful thing about unexpressed love is... it never fades away
--Susan Polis Schutz

I cannot love as I have loved,

And yet I know not why;
It is the one great woe of life
To feel all feeling die.
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
--Philip James Bailey

What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning;

Love's the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning.
--Robert Burns

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure,

Hast thou more of pain or pleasure!
Endless torments dwell about thee:
Yet who would live, and live without thee!
--Joseph Addison

All men and women have an equal need for love. When these needs are not fulfilled
it is easy to have our feelings hurt, for which we blame our partner.
--John Gray

Because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to
doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
--Author Unknown

Most of us are pawns in a game of love we don't understand.

--Leo Buscaglia

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.

All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
--Helen Keller

Nothing spoils the taste of peanut butter like unrequited love.

--Charlie Brown

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still
there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is mingled with grief, it
grows perhaps the greater.
--J. R. R. Tolkien (Fellowship of the Ring)

Smiles & Laughter

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among
those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
--W.H. Auden

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

--Victor Borge

To laugh often and love much... to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others,
to give one's self... this is to have succeeded.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for
one.
--Oscar Wilde

(Asked by a gentleman friend why women seemed not to have a sense of humor) "God
did it on purpose, so that we may love you men instead of laughing at you."
--Mrs. Pat Campbell

My heart smiled when you kissed my lips. What a sweet surprise!

--Jan Arden

Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a
beautiful thing.
--Mother Teresa

Everyone smiles in the same language.

--Author Unknown

A laugh is a smile that bursts.

--Mary H. Waldrip

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

--Phyllis Diller

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening
ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the
potential to turn a life around.
--Leo F. Buscaglia

Smile; it the second best thing one can do with one's lips.
--Author Unknown

Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your
children, smile at each other--it doesn't matter who it is--and that will help you
to grow up in greater love for each other.
--Mother Theresa

A smile starts on the lips, A grin spreads to the eyes, A chuckle comes from the
belly; But a good laugh bursts forth from the soul, Overflows, and bubbles all
around.
--Carolyn Birmingham

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

--Agnes Repplier

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen

into smiles.
--Washington Irving

Don't cry for a man who's left you, the next one may fall for your smile.
--Mae West

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
--Mother Teresa
Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo

If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly
at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total
strangers.
--Maya Angelou

You've got to get up every morning with a smile on your face, And show the world
all the love in your heart, Then people gonna treat you better, You're gonna find,
yes you will, That you're beautiful as you feel.
--Carole King

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring,
sharing person inside.
--Denis Waitley

Friends Title

"Among Life's precious jewels,

Genuine and rare,
The one that we call friendship
Has worth beyond compare."
~ author unknown
"A friend loves at all times..." Proverbs 17:17

Real friendship is a rare and precious gift, strong,

stable, yet fragile, and never to be taken for granted.
~GAgirl

"Friendship is the only cement

that will ever hold the world together"
-Woodrow Wilson

"Treat your friends as you do your pictures,

and place them in their best light."
~ Jennie Jerome Churchill

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art...

It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things
that give value to survival."
~C.S. Lewis

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends."
~ Martin Luther King Jr.

"Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows."

~ author unknown

"Friendship without self - interest is one of the rare

and beautiful things of life."
~ James F. Byrnes

"Give me one friend, just one, who meets

The needs of all my varying moods."
~ Esther M. Clark

"The greatest good you can do for another is not just

to share your riches but to reveal to him his own."
~ Benjamin Disraeli

"The only way to have a friend is to be one."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,

nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when
he discovers that someone else believes in him
and is willing to trust him."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,

never an opportunity."
~ Kahlil Gibran

"Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode:

it is rather a life."
~ David Grayson

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.

Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend forever.
~unknown

"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he

advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone;
one should keep his friendships in constant repair."
~ Samuel Johnson

"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"

~ Abraham Lincoln

"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."

~ Golda Meir

"Friendship is one mind in two bodies."

~ Mencius

"The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away."
~ Wilson Mizner

"Think where man's glory most begins and ends,

And say my glory was I had such friends."
~ William Butler Yeats

"Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary."

~ Louisa May Alcott

"Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving,

make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!"
~ Amanda Bradley

"If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship,

we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own."
~ Charlotte Bronte

"The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being.
His heart withers if it does not answer another heart.
His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts
and finds no other inspiration."
~ Pearl S. Buck

"I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship.

I am still very much a part of my friends' lives and they are
very much a part of my life. A First Lady who does not have
this source of strength and comfort can lose perspective
and become isolated."
~ Nancy Reagan

"Friendship with oneself is all important, because without

it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

"A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good
egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked."
~ Bernard Meltzer

"A friend is someone who sings your heart's song

back to you when you have forgotten the words."
~ David Coppola, Ph.D.

"Some people come into our lives and quickly go.

Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to
new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom.
Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon.
They stay in our lives for awhile, leave footprints
on our hearts, and we are never ever the same."
~ Flavia Weedn

"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by

another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks
to those who have rekindled this light."
~ Albert Schweitzer

"You can make more friends in two months

by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you."
~ Dale Carnegie

"A friend is a gift you give yourself."

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

"Friendship is like a bank account;

you cannot continue to draw on it
without making a deposit."
~ Nicole Beale

"When you ask God for a gift,

Be thankful if he sends,
Not diamonds, pearls or riches,
but the love of real true friends."
~Helen Steiner Rice

Friends

A friend is someone we turn to

when our spirits need a lift,
A friends is someone we treasure
for our friendship is a gift.
A friend is someone who fills our lives
with beauty, joy, and grace
And makes the whole world we live in
a better and happier place.
-Jean Kyler McManus

Remember

Remember that a little love goes a long way.

Remember that a lot... goes forever.
Remember that friendship is a wise investment.
Life's treasures are people... together.
Realize that it's never too late.
Do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.
Have health and hope and happiness.
Take the time to wish upon a star.
And don't ever forget... for even a day...
How very special you are.
~Douglas Pagels Collection

Many people will walk in and out of your life,

but only true friends
will leave footprints in your heart.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

Two may talk together

under the same roof for many years,
yet never really meet,
and two others at first speech
are old friends.
~author unknown

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship,

and it is the best ending for one.
~Oscar Wilde

A friend is one who knows us,

but loves us anyway.
~Fr. Jerome Cummings

There is nought better to be

With noble souls of company:
There is nought dearer than to wend
With good friends faithful to the end.
This is the love whose fruit is sweet;
Therefore to abide within is meet.
~Mahabharata (B.C.400)

Everyone Needs Someone

People need people and friends need friends

And we all need love for a full life depends
Not on vast riches or great acclaim,
Not on success or on worldly fame,
But just in knowing that someone cares
And holds us close in their thoughts and prayers-
For only the knowledge that we're understood
Makes everyday living feel wonderfully good,
And we rob ourselves of life's greatest need
When we "lock up our hearts" and fail to heed
The outstretched hand reaching to find
A kindred spirit whose heart and mind
Are lonely and longing to somehow share
Our joys and sorrows and to make us aware
That life's completeness and richness depends
On the things we share with our loved ones and friends.
-Helen Steiner Rice

Friendship

There's a miracle of Friendship

that dwells within the heart,
And you don't know how it happens
or where it gets its start...
But the happiness it brings you
always gives a special lift,
And you realize that Friendship
Is God's most perfect gift.
-Jean Kyler McManus

Thank You Friend

I never came to you, my friend,

and went away without
some new enrichment of the heart;
More faith and less of doubt,
more courage in the days ahead.
And often in great need coming to you,
I went away comforted indeed.
How can I find the shining word,
the glowing phrase that tells all that
your love has meant to me,
all that your friendship spells?
There is no word, no phrase for
you on whom I so depend.
All I can say to you is this,
God bless you precious friend.
-Grace Noll Crowell

The Guy in the Glass

When you get what you want in your struggle for pelf,
And the world makes you King for a day,
Then go to the mirror and look at yourself,
And see what that guy has to say.

For it isn't your Father, or Mother, or Wife,

Who judgment upon you must pass.
The feller whose verdict counts most in your life
Is the guy staring back from the glass.

He's the feller to please, never mind all the rest,

For he's with you clear up to the end,
And you've passed your most dangerous, difficult test
If the guy in the glass is your friend.

You may be like Jack Horner and "chisel" a plum,

And think you're a wonderful guy,
But the man in the glass says you're only a bum
If you can't look him straight in the eye.

You can fool the whole world down the pathway of years,
And get pats on the back as you pass,
But your final reward will be heartaches and tears
If you've cheated the guy in the glass.
~Dale Wimbrow, � 1934

The Gift of Friendship

If your bad habit screams, "Me First," Break it.

If your spirit cries with thirst, Slake it.
If for company you yearn
And someone else's trust you earn,
When friendship's offered in return, Take it!

Just place your hand in his or hers; Grip it.

If imagined slight occurs, Skip it.
See what's needed, then give more.
And if a weed springs up, before
It chokes the path to your friend's door, Snip it!

If gratitude or praise is due, Heap it.

If a secret's shared with you, Keep it.
When a seed has taken root,
Beside your friend stand resolute,
And when the full-grown tree bears fruit, Reap it!

~Mary Sullivan Georgetown, TX, USA

Friends Without Faces

We sit and we type and we stare at our screens,

We can't help but wonder what all of this means.
With mouse in hand ...we roam through this maze,
On an infinite search...lost in a daze.

We chat with each other, we type all our woes

At times we'll band together to gang up on our foes.
We wait for somebody, to type out our name
We want recognition, but it is always the same.

Soon friendships are formed - but - why we don't know,

But some of these friendships, will flourish and grow.
We give kisses and hugs, and sometimes we'll flirt,
In IMs we chat deeply, and reveal why we hurt.

Why is it on screen, we are so easily bold,

Telling our secrets, that have never been told.
The answer is simple, it is as clear as a bell,
We all have our problems, and need someone to tell.

We can't tell real people, but tell someone we must

So we turn to our 'puters ...and to those we can trust.
Even though it sounds crazy...the truth still remains,
Most of my "friends" have no faces...and odd little names.

~Rusty Black, �1996

A Golden Chain

Friendship is a Golden Chain,

The links are friends so dear,
And like a rare and precious jewel
It's treasured more each year...

It's clasped together firmly

With a love that's deep and true,
And it's rich with happy memories
and fond recollections, too...

Time can't destroy its beauty

For, as long as memory lives,
Years can't erase the pleasure
That the joy of friendship gives...

For friendship is a priceless gift

That can't be bought or sold,
But to have an understanding friend
Is worth far more than gold...

And the Golden Chain of Friendship

Is a strong and blessed tie
Binding kindred hearts together
As the years go passing by.

~Helen Steiner Rice

Real Friend

A simple friend, when visiting, acts like a guest.

A real friend opens your refrigerator and helps himself
(and doesn't feel even the least bit weird shutting your
Coke/Pepsi drawer with his foot!)

A simple friend has never seen you cry.

A real friend has shoulders soggy from your tears.

A simple friend doesn't know your parents' first names.

A real friend has their phone numbers in his address book.

A simple friend brings a bottle of wine to your party.

A real friend comes early to help you cook
and stays late to help you clean.

A simple friend hates it when you call

after they've gone to bed.
A real friend asks you why you took so long to call.

A simple friend seeks to talk with you

about your problems.
A real friend seeks to help you with your problems.

A simple friend wonders about your romantic history.

A real friend could blackmail you with it.

A simple friend thinks the friendship is over

when you have an argument.
A real friend calls you after you had a fight.

A simple friend expects you to always be there for them.

A real friend expects to always be there for you!

It is by chance we met,
by choice we became friends.
Friendship is a strange thing---
we find ourselves telling each other
the deepest details of our lives,
things we don't even share
with our families who raised us.
But what is a friend?
A confidant? A lover?
A fellow email junkie?
A shoulder to cry on?
An ear to listen?
A heart to feel?...
A friend is all these things...
and more.
No matter where we met,
I call you friend.
A word so small yet so large in feeling,
a word filled with emotion.

It is true great things

come in small packages.
Once the package of friendship
has been opened,
it can never be closed.
It is a constant book always written
waiting to be read and enjoyed.
We may have our disagreements,
we may argue,
we may concern one another,
friendship is a unique bond
that lasts through it all.

A part of me is put into my friends,

some it is my humor,
some it is my listening ear,
some it is real life experiences,
some it is my romanticism
but with all, it is friendship.

Friendships forged are a construct stronger

than steel built as a foundation,
necessary for life and necessary for love.
Friends----you and me
You brought another friend
and then there were 3.
We started our group
Our circle of friends
and like that circle
There is no beginning or end...
~author unknown

You My Friend

You my friend
You don't always show it,
but I know that you care.

You My friend
If I'd ever need you,
I know you'd be there.

You I'm glad you're my friend.

Your smile makes me smile.
Your pain makes me hurt.

You My friend
I want you to know:
If you need me--I'm there.
make you happy, make you laugh.

You My friend
Sometimes you make me mad,
but I can't stay mad.

You My friend
Sometimes I want to get away from you.
And sometimes there's nothing I want more than:
to talk to you, to tell you about my day,
to hear about yours, to laugh with you,
to tease you, to share an inside joke,
that no one else would get,
to argue with you,
but know we're just kidding..

You My friend
Do you remember the time when...?
There are so many times.

You My friend
Don't ever lose the wonderful person you are.
Stay happy. Stay healthy. Stay you.

You My friend
I'll never stop being your friend.
Don't ever stop being mine.

You My friend
Just wanted to tell you:
I care.
~Author Unknown