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Quotes of the Day for 24 November 2004 - Friendship

How do you rank the blessings we have received? I'm not sure you can, but one test might be what grieves you the most when you lose it. By that measure, I think it has to be the friendship of those around us. Whether this comes from relocation, death, or a falling out, to lose a friend is hard to bear. I hope you aren't feeling any such loss now.

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island ... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
     - Baltasar Gracian, 1601 - 1656

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, can never know what true friendship means.
     - Charles Kingsley, 1819 - 1875

My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them!
     - Emily Dickinson, 1830 - 1886

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
     - George Bernard Shaw, 1856 - 1950

With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world.
     - Helen Keller, 1880 - 1968

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends?
     - Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106 - 43 BC

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.
     - Thomas Jefferson, 1743 - 1826

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