My lovely childhood friend, Tami, sent me the sweetest little gift. Thank you darling! I love it. I really, really do. It is a notepad which says:
Sometimes in life, you find a special friend:
Someone who changes your life by being a part of it,
Who makes you laugh until you can't stop,
Who makes you believe there really is good in the world.
This is forever friendship.
I love that. I am so lucky to have so many wonderful friends in my life. Friends who talk. Friends who listen. Friends who are there, whether in person or in spirit. Friends who sustain you for your life even if you don't see them or talk to them every day. Some of my favorite friendship quotes:
Anna Cummins:
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.
Anais Nin:
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it’s only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Edna Buchanan:
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
Christina Baldwin:
Friendship has no civil, and few emotional, rights in our society.
Dorothy Parker:
Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
Edith Wharton:
I suppose there is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one’s self, the very meaning of one’s soul.
Edna Buchanan:
Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.
Emily Dickinson:
My friends are my estate.
Fran Lebowitz:
[Friendships] are easy to get out of compared to love affairs, but they are not easy to get out of compared to, say, jail.
Grace Metalious:
Funny, you don’t look like a friend – ah, but they never do.
Anais Nin:
What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
Jane Austen:
Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Katherine Mansfield:
I always feel that the great high privilege, relief and comfort for friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
Louise Bernikow:
Female friendships that work are relationships in which women help each other to belong to themselves.
Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach:
In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal:
True friendship is never tranquil.
Marlene Dietrich:
It’s the ones you can call up at 4:00 a.m. that matter.
Nancy Spain:
There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.
Phyllis McGinley:
Relations are errors that Nature makes. / Your spouse you can put up on the shelf. / But your friends, dear friends, are the quaint mistakes / You always commit, yourself.
Queen Elizabeth I:
Prosperity provideth, but adversity proveth friends.
Sophie Irene Loeb:
A friend is one who withholds judgment no matter how long you have his unanswered letter.
Susan Ferrier:
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
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