Sunday, May 11, 2014

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!

Thursday, May 8, 2014

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"

Friday, May 2, 2014

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!