May 28th

To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship. -Sallust

May 27th

A friend should bear his friend's infirmities. - William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

May 26th

A friend is someone who listens to your dreams, challenges, your fears, cares for your feelings, and forgives your shortcomings.

May 25th

A friend knows when it's time to help you stay on your diet and when it's time to sit down together with a pint of ice cream. A best friend know when it's time to bring on a gallon.

May 24th

My friends are my estate. -Emily Dickinson

May 23rd

A constant friend is a thing rare and hard to find. -Plutarch

May 22nd

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature- Nathaniel Hawthorne

May 21st

We must love our friends as true amateurs love paintings; they have their eyes perpetually fixed on the fine parts, and see no others. - Madame d'Epinay

May 20th

A friend makes you complete inside. A balance is achieved from two viewpoints, two background, two hearts.

May 19th

Here's to many future adventures together!

May 18th

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

May 17th

Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Friendship"

May 16th

Friendship is a magical vehicle in which two distinct souls journey together to different destinations.

May 15th

Things that are even better when done with a friend:  Manicures and pedicures.

May 14th

Building a friendship is like learning to dance. You take small, easy steps at first, then gradually add new ones until it becomes comfortable and familiar.

May 13th

That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virture on each part, but virtue of the same kind. - Samuel Johnson

May 12th

But friendship is a word the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm. - Augustine Birrell

May 11th

If I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it. - William Shakespeare, Othello

May 10th

When you have to talk, you can call a girlfriend way too late at night and long before she's had her morning coffee.

May 9th

Our dearest friends shall invariably speak of us as though they were blind to all our faults, but keenly alive to every shade of our virtues. - Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers

May 8th

A true friend may live in another state, or even another country, but is always only a heartbeat away.

May 7th

Friendship is like two clocks keeping time. - Anonymous

May 6th

There is no one else I'd rather have with me on life's little escapades. You're my favorite partner in crime!

May 5th

Those first five pounds; finally signing up for that class; actually having a  free minute to read a book for fun: Life's little moments just seem more special when a friend is there to help celebrate.

May 4th

'Tis Kindness to hold a Friend up by the Chin - Jonathan Swift

May 3rd

The door to a friend's heart (and closet!) is always open.

May 2nd

You can lean on a friendship on your road to success. You appreciate that friendship when your friend is happier about your success than you are.

May 1st

For you are the first friend I ever had, and the best friend I can ever have, and nobody can respect and love you too much to please me. - Charles Dickens

April 30th

Friendship is a special package to be handled with care, to be gratefully acknowledged, and whose value we should always esteem.

April 29th

Friends are the nearest relations. - Proverb

April 28th

What can be sweeter than to have a friend to whom one may venture to confide all things as to one's self? - Marcus Tullius Cicero, "Essay on Friendship"

Sorry

I'm sorry for not posting.. I'm very far behind :D

April 27th

I can spend a giggly night shopping till I drop with you, come home empty-handed, and feel like I've had the most successful night on Earth. Your company is worth more than sale-priced designer shoes!

April 26th

A good friend is someone who knows what's on your mind even when you haven't said a word.

April 25th

Friendship is a flower that blooms through all life's seasons.

April 24th

To the world we always seem to agree and uniformly reflect each other. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

April 23rd

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. - Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson 

April 22nd

Cultivating friendship includes courtesy, kindness, and a genuine interest in others.

April 21st

A ho-hum activity that's really fun when done with a good friend: washing the car.

April 20th

But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end. - William Shakespeare, "Sonnet XXX"

April 19th

If you want true friends, don't hesitate to show the world the real you. Friendship speaks the language of the heart and reaches out in love to touch the lonely spirit.

April 18th

Friends are the thermometers by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes. - Lady Blessington

April 17th

Friendship is infinitely better than kindness. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

April 16th

Friends Activity: Volunteer together at a women's shelter. Learn how close you can get through the bond of shared humanity.

April 15th

By friendship you mean the greatest love, the greatest usefulness, the most open communication... which brave men and women are capable. - Jeremy Taylor, Of the Nature and Offices of Friendship

April 14th

Good friends never lose sight of each other's interests and always give each other room to grow.

April 13th

The road to a friend's house is never long. - Danish Proverb

April 12th

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties. - Marcus Tullius Cicero, "Essay on Friendship"

April 11th

Thanks for always believing me when I tell you I'm really, honestly, seriously, truly going to start working our regularly next week. I'm glad one of us has faith in my inner jock! :D

April 10th

My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

April 9th

Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends. - Jacque Delille

April 8th

Like nailing planks to form a bridge, relationships are built with many acts of goodwill; no single incident can undermine a strong relationship.

April 7th

I count myself in nothing else so happy
As in a soul remembering my good friends. - William Shakespeare, King Richard III

April 6th

My friends, my absent friends! Whate'er I see is linked with thoughts of you. - Letitia Elizabeth Landon, "Night at Sea"

April 5th

With my friend by my side, I can conquer all the challenges of life.

April 4th

A true friend is one who lets her bridesmaids wear whatever they want in her wedding.

April 3rd

The difference between a friend and an acquaintance is that acquaintances know the good things about you. A friend knows the good things and the bad things, yet still wants to be your friend.

April 2nd

When you worry about your future, a friend reminds you of how far you've already come.

April 1st

Friendship always benefits. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

March 31st

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us. - Epicurus

March 30th

A true friend likes you even when you don't like yourself.  She will point out all your good qualities and convince you you're worthy of every good thing that happens to you.

March 29th

Friendship doesn't have to be fancy. A Sunday matinee, a walk on the beach, a long talk over a glass of homemade iced tea. It's the quality of time that counts.

March 28th

A dear friend is wealth added to your treasure chest of experiences.

March 27th

While polishing my memories, I discovered those shared with friends are among my most treasured keepsakes.

March 26th

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports. - Robert Burton

March 25th

Thou thy best friend shalt cherish many a year. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "To a Friend"

March 24th

Have no friends not equal to yourself. - Confucius

March 23rd

How to tell if someone is best friend material: She wants to go to a Disney movie as much as you do.

March 22nd

True friends are like marathon runners, pacing each other through the race of life. When one stumbles, the other drops back to help. When one surges forward, the other joins in flight.

March 21st

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. - Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey 

March 20th

A good thing that's even better done with a friend: shopping.

March 19th

How to tell if someone is good friend material: She goes to a kid movie with you so you don't have to go alone.

March 18th

I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frostwork, but the solidest thing we know. -  Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Friendship"

March 17th

So closely interwoven have been our lives, our purposes, and experiences that, separated, we have a feeling of incompleteness. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

March 16th

More than just loved, friend, you help me feel beloved.

March 15th

How to tell if someone is friend material: She doesn't think you're immature for going to a kid movie without a kid.

March 14th

Right now stop reading this and call a friend you've lost touch with. Call a friend that you think about from time to time, but haven't gotten around to calling. Call a friend and welcome her back into your life.

March 13th

Be slow in choosing a Friend, slower in changing. - Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

March 12th

With you there to lift me up, I can reach for the stars.

March 11th

The secret to a healthy friendship is for both people to put more energy into the relationship than they take out.

March 10th

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over. - Samuel Johnson

March 9th

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Friendship"

March 8th

Time spent with a true friend is nourishment for the soul.

March 7th

Would I lay down my life a country to defend? I willingly would if it housed my friend.

March 6th

When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I'm going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends." - Attributed to Lincoln

March 5th

To friendship every burden's light. - John Gay, "The Hare and Many Friends"

March 4th

Best friends share the same vision through different sets of eyes.

March 3rd

It doesn't matter whether friends laugh with you or at you as long as you're laughing together.

March 2nd

Every person is brought into our lives to teach us something. As you see each of your friends today, ask yourself what lessons they hold for you and what lessons you might be teaching them.

March 1st

I'm very glad to see thee honest friend. I know the times are something hard, but hope they soon will mend. - Jonathan Swift

February 28th

What a wonderful place the world would be if we thought of each new person we meet as a friend waiting to be discovered.

February 27th

When our lives get overloaded, one of the first things we cut back is the time we spend with friends. But it is these very relationships that can center us, ease our stress, and remind us of our true priorities.

February 26th

A Father's a Treasure; a Brother's a Comfort; a Friend is both. - Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

February 25th

Sometimes the best medicine is a friend's voice on the phone.

February 24th

For friendship is nothing else than a harmony of opinion on all things human and divine. - Marcus Tullius Cicero, "Essay on Friendship"

February 23rd

Visiting with old friends is like rereading favorite books. Though you know the stories by heart, you are compelled to turn the pages again and again, reliving the precious memories one more time.

February 22nd

Value your friendship as you bank account; take care to deposit more than you withdraw.

February 21st

Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs. - Proverbs

February 20th

There never were such friends as these two became. Somehow, they seemed to suit each other in a wonderful way. - Frances Hodgson Burnett,  A Little Princess  

February 19th

I'd like a little money.

I'd like a little ease.

But a friendship that is faithful

Can outweigh both of these. 

Way behind, sorry!

February 18th

We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade. ~ Caroline Norton, "We Have Been Friends Together"

February 17th

Pleasure is the business of friendship.

February 16th

A true friend stands on the sidelines of your life, proudly cheering you on as you win each of life's battles.

February 15th

The world's greatest treasure is the small, simple pleasure of spending our time with good friends. Amidst laughter and tears we are bound through the years by a loyalty that never ends.

February 14th

Friendship is Love, without his wings! ~ Lord Byron

February 13th

Poor is the friendless master of the world. ~Edward Young

February 12th

Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them. ~ Owen Feltham

February 11th

Friends Activity: Too often our busy worlds leave our creativity buried and forgotten. Celebrate your creativity together and carve out a little time for the two of you. Sign up for an art class and unleash your inner artists!

February 10th

I would give more for the private esteem and love of one than for the public praise of ten thousand. ~ W. R. Alger

February 9th

A friend is a second self. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

February 8th

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend
         -Henry David Thoreau, Journal: Winter



(Pssst!! Walking Dead is tomorrow night!! Yay!)

February 7th

Friendships, like gardens, must be nourished and cultivated if they are to flourish and thrive. Take time to pull the weeds, turn the soil, and plant new seeds. Then enjoy the beauty of this love you have created.

February 6th

A ho-hum activity that's really fun when done with a good friend:
a home improvement project.

February 5th

Friends see only the stars in your eyes (and never the wrinkles around them).

February 4th

Courtesy and a tolerant, uncritical awareness of others will immediately reward you with a warm response from friends, family, and even strangers.

February 3rd

It is not what we say or sing, that keeps our charm so long unbroken, though every lightest leaf  we bring may touch the heart as friendship's token.
         -Oliver Wendell Holmes, "Our Oldest Friend"

February 2nd

If life has introduced you to even one person you can call a true friend, you are truly blessed.

February 1st

Friendship is the perfection of love.
                                             -Proverb

January 31st

With girlfriends you laugh until tears stream down your face. Then you wonder together what was so funny.

January 30th

We look to our friends for different things. 

Some are "night on the town" friends. 

Some are telephone friends. 

Others are office friends. Each contributes unique qualities and brings something 

special to our lives.  

January 29th

When the world's trying to beat you down, know that I'm here to lift you up.

January 28th

A loyal and true friend is a precious, priceless gift.

January 27th

The weight of the world on your shoulders becomes proportionately less to the strength of your friendships.

January 26th

Therefore, they who were my friends never can be changed or old; for the beauty of their you fond remembrance well can hold.
                     -Phoebe Cary, "Loss and Gain"

January 25th

For the her of men multiplied many times will never come up to the value of one friend.
                                           -Henry David Thoreau, Journal: Winter

January 24th

A good thing that's even better done with a friend: road trip!

January 23rd

The light of friendship is like the like the light of phosphorus,
                -seen plainest when all around is dark.
                             -Grace Noll Crowell

January 22nd

It's easy to love a friend for all the things we have in common. It's harder, but much more valuable, to love the things that set us apart from one another. Learning to appreciate our differences brings a new level of intimacy to our relationships with others.

January 21st

A knowing look from you tells me volumes more than whole conversations with other people. Words aren't even necessary between friends like us.

January 20th

The miracle of friendship usually begins with a simple smile.

January 19th

I bring the simplest pledge of love,
Friend of my
earlier days.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes,
"To James Freeman Clarke"                    

January 18th

Love is like the wild rose-briar,
Friendship like the holly-tree-
The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms
But which will bloom most constantly?
~Emily Bronte, "Love and Friendship"

January 17th

Our closest friends challenge us to change, to grow, and to become the best we can be.

January 16th

Tea and friendships are available in many comforting varieties.

January 15th

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sake rather than our own. ~ Charlotte Bronte

January 14th

But if you have any wish to speak openly to me as a friend, or to ask my opinion of any thing that you may have in contemplation as a friend, indeed, you may command me. I will hear whatever you like. I will tell you exactly what I think. ~ Jane Austen, Emma

January 13th

Friendship is a union of spirits, a marriage of hearts and the bond thereof virtues. ~ Williams Penn

January 12th

What are friends for? Whatever either of you needs.

January 11th

The best friendships mellow with age to soothe with just the right amount of sweetness.

January 10th

Nothing chases away a gloomy day like going out on the town with a bunch of good friends. The noise, the chatter, and laughter serve as the perfect medicine to lift your spirits.

January 9th

A friend applauds your strengths, understands your weaknesses, and appreciates the combination that is you.

January 8th

A friend's smile leaves an imprint on your heart.

January 7th

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

January 6th

Friends Activity: Enjoy cooking? Start a dinner club. Invite a group of friends to meet once a month at a different house. The host house is in charge of the entree; the others are assigned a different course to bring. Pick a different culinary style each month and expand your horizons!

[Sorry, it's a bit long... but it sounds kinda fun :) ]

January 5th

Friendship is a cadence of divine melody melting through the heart. - Mildmay

January 4th

A friend is a keeper of secrets and a guardian of confidences.

January 3rd

Many friends in general, one in special. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum 

January 2nd

When we love our friends, we see their goodness and beauty, no matter what they look like, how old they are, or what they choose to wear.

January 1st

You will discover another part of yourself in each new friend you make.




(psssst... HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!! 2014!!

December 31st

If you have something to do, someone to love, and something to hope for, every day becomes a celebration.