"F" is for Fun............That friends share when they are together.
"R" is for Reliability....A true friend is someone that you can always rely on.
"I" is for Interest.......Someone who is genuinely interested in you, your fears, joys, and life.
"E" is for Energy.........They pick you up when you are down, and give you the energy to go on and believe in yourself.
"N" is for Nothing........Nothing is ever too much, no matter what time it is, night or day.
"D" is for Distance.......Although the miles may separate you, a true friend is never far away.
"S" is for Secrets......Your feelings and personal/private thoughts that you can only share with a friend.
"H" is for Happiness......The way one feels when they are with a friend.
"I" is for Inseparable....Through good times and bad, tears and laughter. A friend will always be there for you.
"P" is for Perfect....The friendship...........................
- Unknown
Monday, June 16, 2008
Meaning of F.R.I..E.N.D.S.H.I.P
Friday, June 13, 2008
Every Time
I am reminded of you.
Every time my heart beats,
I am thinking of you.
Every time I dream,
I dream only of you.
Every time I am alone,
I am in search of you.
Every time I hear,
I hear none but you.
Every time the wind passes me,
I feel u by my side.
Every time my friend,
every hour,
every minute,
every second.
I feel you’re presence in my life...
Every time..
- Unknown -
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Real Friend
I want you to know that I truly care.
When life knocks you down on your knees,
I'll be at your side just as fast as you please.
A shoulder to cry on when times are rough,
An encouraging word when you don't feel good enough.
An ear to listen to your hopes and your dreams,
A voice of moderation when you've gone to extremes.
Someone to share the good and the bad,
I will be the worst best friend you ever had!
- Author Unknown -
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Our Friendship Is as Close as Closest Sisters
Our friendship is as close as closest sisters,
Two flutes with a single melody,
Interchanging runs through changing vistas,
Notes like birds alighting on a tree.
To some, friends are like books upon a shelf;
Yet you to me are like another self.
This music will not stop for other misters,
Nor will it pause for princes, real or elf.
However life may wend, we will be we.
- Unknown
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Your Friendship Is the Sky Above My Home
The crystal air I breathe, through which I see.
I can't believe how much you mean to me.
Without you with me, time would turn to stone.
I don't know why I need you so, or how
I know so absolutely I'll be there
In times your wounded heart can hardly bear.
I only know this truth is with me now.
Why is it in our lives that we need friends
To be awake and fully what we are?
Alone we dream but never cross the bar;
With you I share a grace that never ends.
- Author Unknown
Monday, June 09, 2008
It's Been So Good to Have You as a Friend
It's been so good to have you as a friend:
As sweet and rich as honey-colored sun
Slanting steep across a summer lawn,
Gilding life with all that love can lend.
And now that you yourself have griefs to tend,
I want to be the strong and caring one
To count to you the lovely things you've done
Until these troubles pass and sorrows end.
You are so beautiful in form and soul
That you bring happiness to all you're near:
Just as a sea rose, flowering in mist,
Makes a paradise of some bleak shoal,
Turning truth to something far more clear,
No pain unsoothed or rain-swept cheek unkissed.
- Unknown
Saturday, June 07, 2008
A Good Definition of Real Friend
Each of us has a hidden place
Somewhere deep within ourselves;
A place where we go to get away,
To think things through,
To be alone, to be ourselves.
This unique place, where we confront our deepest feelings,
becomes a storehouse of all our hopes,
All our need, all our Dreams,
And even our unspoken fears.
It encompasses the essence of who we are and what we want to be.
But now and then, whether by chance or design,
Someone discovers a way into that place we thought was ours alone.
And we allow that person to see, to feel and to share
All the reason, all the uncertainty
And all the emotion we've stored up there.
That person adds new perspective to our hidden realm,
Then quietly settles down in his own corner of our special place,
Where a bit of himself will stay forever.
And we call that person a FRIEND......
- Unknown
Friday, June 06, 2008
A Friendly Smile
No one reacts to anything you say
No matter how much you scream and cry,
the world seems to be passing you by.
No one seems to notice or care,
that you are trying to be heard over your despair.
But on one face a smile shines through,
a smile that knows and cares about you.
A smile with love to lend,
on a face you recognize as a friend.
- Unknown
Thursday, June 05, 2008
Inspirational Friendship Story - My Dog, My Buddy
An old man and his dog were walking down this dirt road with fences on both sides, they came to a gate in the fence and looked in, it was nice - grassy, woody areas, just what a 'huntin' dog and man would like, but, it had a sign saying 'no trespassing' so they walked on.
They came to a beautiful gate with a person in white robes standing there. "Welcome to Heaven"
he said. The old man was happy and started in with his dog following him.
The gatekeeper stopped him. "Dogs aren't allowed, I'm sorry but he can't come with you." "What
kind of Heaven won't allow dogs? If He can't come in, then I will stay out with him. He's been my faithful companion all his life, I can't desert him now. " "Suit yourself, but I have to warn you,
the Devil's on this road and he'll try to sweet talk you into his area, he'll promise you anything, but, the dog can't go there either. If you won't leave the dog, you'll spend Eternity on this road " So the old man and dog went on.
They came to a rundown fence with a gap in it, no gate, just a hole. Another old man was inside. "Scuse me Sir, my dog and I are getting mighty tired, mind if we come in and sit in the shade for awhile?" "Of course, there's some cold water under that tree over there. Make yourselves
comfortable " "You're sure my dog can come in? The man down the road said dogs weren't allowed anywhere." "Would you come in if you had to leave the dog?" " No sir, that's why I didn't go to Heaven, he said the dog couldn't come in. We'll be spending Eternity on this road, and a glass of cold water and some shade would be mighty fine right about now. But, I won't
come in if my buddy here can't come too, and that's final. "
The man smiled a big smile and said "Welcome to Heaven." "You mean this is Heaven? Dogs ARE allowed? How come that fellow down the road said they weren't?" "That was the Devil and he gets all the people who are willing to give up a life long companion for a comfortable place to stay.
They soon find out their mistake, but, then it's too late.
The dogs come here, the fickle people stay there. GOD wouldn't allow dogs to be banned from Heaven.
After all, HE created them to be man's companions in life, why would he separate them in death?"
- Author Unknown
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
Funny Friendship Poem - Truth About Friends
My Friend
When you are sad,
I will get you drunk and help you plot revenge against the evil bastard who made you sad.
When you are blue, ...
I'll try to dislodge whatever is choking you.
When you smile, ...
I'll know you finally got laid.
When you are scared, ...
I will take the piss about it every chance I get.
When you are worried, ...
I will tell you horrible stories about how much
worse it could be and to quit whining.
When you are confused, ...
I will use little words to explain it to your dumb ass.
When you are sick, ...
Stay the hell away from me until you're well again.
I don't want whatever you have.
When you fall, ...
I will point and laugh at you.
This is my oath, ...I pledge till the end.
- Unknown
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
Tips on How to Make New True Friend
Here are some bits of advice telling you the meanings of true friends and hopefully help you to make new true friends and to keep them.
Need to know how to make new friends? Having trouble making new friends? Well these little bits of advice I got off a friendship card will certainly give you a few tips on making new friends. Keep these in mind as you go out and soon you will lots of new TRUE friends. Good Luck!
1. Don't worry about knowing people, just make yourself worth knowing.
2. Be friendly with the folks you know. If it weren't for them you would be a total stranger.
3. Friends are those who speak to you after others don't.
4. The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail and not his tongue.
5. The way to have friends is to be willing to lose some arguments.
6. Deal with other's faults as gently as if they were your own.
7. A friend is a person who can step on your toes without messing your shine.
8. You will never have a friend if you must have one without faults.
9. You can make more friends by being interested in them than trying to have them be interested in you.
10. A real friend is a person who, when you've made a fool of yourself, lets you forget it.
11. A friend is a person who listens attentively while you say nothing.
12. A friend is someone who thinks you're a good egg even though you're slightly cracked.
. . . and most important, A FRIEND IS A TREASURE!
- Author Unknown
Monday, June 02, 2008
The Golden Chain Of Friendship
Friendship is like 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 deep and true,
And it's rich with happy memories and fond recollections, too...
Time can't destroy it's 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
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Never Alone
When you walk in dark despair.
There is hope when you feel helpless
Knowing that the Lord is there...
Sharing in your sunshine moments
Or in valleys deep and wide,
He will never, ever leave you-
He is always by your side.
There's no other friend so faithful
Through the sunshine and the rain,
Through the teardrops and the laughter,
In your joy and in your pain.
We could never, ever thank Him
For His Love He gives so free,
Never changing... never ending
Throughout all eternity
Oh, the wonders of all wonders
As we live from day to day
Knowing that we have a Father
Who is with us all the way.
Courtesy : Gertrude B. McClain
Friday, May 30, 2008
A Smile for Your Friend!!!
Smile, though it feels like breaking.
What? You don't feel like smiling today?
Oh, c'mon...there must be SOMETHING to smile about!
Let's see.... How about if you think about me?
Or, think about me thinking about you!
How about if I come over and give you a little squeeze...
Or a great big HUG!
Whatever it takes to make you smile I'll do it, because
That's What Friends Are For!
- Unknown
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Friends in France
When I was a flight attendant, I met a fellow flight attendant who had lived in Aix-en-Provence during college. I told him of my dream, and he jotted down the name of the family he had lived with eight years earlier. He handed me that paper and said, “If you ever do go, call them and give my regards.”
That piece of paper was a catalyst to my dream. The moment I received it, I decided I would simply have to go. I imagined renting a room in Aix from these people and living there for as long as I could. My images were intoxicating—lavender fields, herbes-de-provence, wine, cheese,
baguettes.
I knew I had to go, but I didn’t want to go alone. I decided to convince my friend Heidi to come with me. By now, my imagination had completely taken over; I was forming plans.
“Heidi, come with me,” I said. “I have friends we can stay with. It’ll be a great experience!” I wasn’t really lying. I had that piece of paper, and it felt very friendly.
I seduced Heidi with my imaginings, and with the assurance of “friends,” it didn’t take much to get her to go with me. I took a leave from my job, and two months later we were off. I had studied French in college and told Heidi I could speak it (although the truth was that I didn’t speak it very well). It didn’t matter. My imagination was filled with such lovely images of friends and fun that I felt what I knew was enough to get by. We packed our Sportsac suitcases and left with $500 apiece—a small fortune to us.
We were in a romantic, adventurous whirlwind until we hit Paris—expensive, impersonal, and overwhelming. We decided to leave after only one day.
“To the south, where the good life is!” we chanted, boarding the express train at the Gare de Lyon.
Halfway between Lyon and Marseilles, Heidi, now suffering serious culture shock and jet lag, asked me about my friends. Uh-oh. I was in trouble. I explained that I hadn’t met them yet, but not to worry.
She was horrified.
Clinging to my imaginings the rest of the way, I moved to the other side of the railroad car and looked up a cheap hotel in my Michelin guide. We arrived in Marseilles at midnight, and our taxi took us to the Hotel Martini, my one-star choice hotel. It was a seedy flophouse two blocks from the train station. Starving and grossed out by the hotel, we stuffed our money in our pockets and went looking for a place to eat.
Three blocks from the hotel, we happened upon a street fight between local drug dealers. We startled them, and they started chasing us, knives flashing. We ran screaming down the street, in fear for our lives.
As we raced around the corner back toward the hotel, a police paddy wagon shined its bright lights on us, and three cops jumped out of the wagon.
“Arretez-vous! (Stop!)” they shouted, guns pointing right at us.
We had only been in Marseilles thirty minutes, and already we had been mistaken for druggies or prostitutes and thrown into the back of a police paddy wagon! Not quite what I had imagined, but what an adventure. Heidi was in shock. I must have been, too, because I started laughing. The whole experience had become too weird for even my imagination. Heidi demanded that I explain who we were, that we were lost and hungry and scared and . . .
“I can’t,” I finally admitted. “I don’t know enough French!”
After a few more scary minutes, I managed to say, “We are lost!” in French. The cops conversed wildly, guns still pointed at us, eyes darting back and forth to us, to each other, and then . . . the guns went down.
In broken English, one policeman said, “Americans, no? You lost? Need a room?
Yes?”
“Yes, yes!” we screamed. “Oui, oui!” Our heads bobbed like apples in a bucket of water.
He took pity on us. He bantered back and forth passionately with the three other cops for a few more minutes, and then said, “No worry. I help.”
We were whisked to the safety of a beautiful country manor in Aix, our original destination! The policeman’s grandmother fed us, and we were given a wonderful room overlooking a hillside of lavender, just as I had imagined.
“See, Heidi?” I said, finally drifting off to sleep in my cozy bed after our exhausting thirty-six-hour ordeal. “I told you we had friends in the south of France!”
Such good friends, in fact, that I ended up living there rent-free for six months!
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
If Nobody Smiled
and nobody helped us along.
If every moment looked after itself and
good things always went to the strong;
If nobody cared just a little about you
and nobody cared about me,
and we stood alone, in the battle of life,
What a sad old world this would be.
Life is sweet, 'cuz of friends we have made
and the things that we choose to share.
We want to live on, enjoying ourselves,
and enjoying the people who care.
It is doing and giving for somebody else
on which all of life's beauty depends.
The joy of this world,
when you've summed it all up,
is found in the making of friends.
- Unknown
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Beautiful Friendship Quotes
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one
day, so I never have to live without you."
~ Winnie the Pooh
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"True friendship is like sound health; the
value of it is seldom known until it be lost."
~ Charles Caleb Colton
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"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."
"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Walk beside me and be my friend."
~ Albert Camus.
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"Strangers are just friends waiting to happen."
"Friends are the Bacon Bits in the Salad Bowl of Life."
"Friendship is one mind in two bodies."
~ Mencius
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"Friends are God's way of taking care of us."
"If you should die before me,
ask if you could bring a friend."
~ Stone Temple Pilots
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"I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay."
~ Dave Matthews Band
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"If all my friends were to jump off a bridge,
I wouldn't jump with them,
I'd be at the bottom to catch them"
"Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say."
"We all take different paths in life,
but no matter where we go,
we take a little of each other everywhere"
~ Tim McGraw
Monday, May 26, 2008
Friends Are Gift
We meet people everyday.
Most are simply met by chance.
But, some are sent our way.
These become special friends
Whose bond we can't explain;
The ones who understand us
And share our joy and pain.
Their love contains no boundaries.
So, even we are apart.
Their presence enhances us
With a warmth felt in the heart.
This love becomes a passageway,
When even the miles disappear.
And so, these friends, God sends our way,
Remain forever near
- Unknown -
Friday, May 23, 2008
Timmy's Wish
One day in mid-August, I was in the school office when Timmy's teacher came running in with Timmy. He was sobbing and the teacher was nearly hysterical. The bathroom door had slammed on his finger. She had a handkerchief wrapped around Timmy's index finger and wasn't sure how much of it was left because it was bleeding so much. Our school bus driver rushed them immediately to the emergency room.
A few minutes later the phone rang at the school. It was the doctor asking if we had found the tip of Timmy's finger. He said there was a small chance of saving it if we could get it to him quickly. Pulling myself out of a daze, I ran to the bathroom. Sure enough, there it was. After carefully wrapping it up, I grabbed my car keys and headed for the emergency unit. The doctor was waiting for me. Unfortunately, the fingertip had already turned blue. As he took the tiny piece of flesh in his hand, I knew from the look on his face that it was too late. With a sinking heart I quietly asked,
"Where's Timmy?"
The doctor pointed to a room down the hall. "He's soaking his finger in a solution to stop the bleeding."
"Can I see him for a few minutes?" I asked.
"Of course," he said and gestured toward the door.
Timmy was lying on a flat gurney. He must have been sobbing a lot because his chest was still heaving as I approached the bed.
"Hi, Timmy," I said, gently brushing the tears from his cheeks. "How are you doing?"
"Okay," he whimpered, trying to hold back his tears.
I felt helpless, unable to take the pain away from my little friend. Then suddenly an idea came to me. Bending over, I whispered in his ear, "Timmy, did you know that geckos [our Hawaiian lizards] grow their tails back and little boys can grow their fingers back too?" Timmy's soft green eyes grew wide with excitement.
"They can?" he asked, obviously astonished by the thought.
"Yep, they can!" I answered with certainty.
"How?" he asked.
"Close your eyes and I'll show you."
My family has lived in the Hawaiian Islands for five generations and I wanted to teach him an ancient Hawaiian healing method that I had learned in my youth. I had studied this process under the direction of special kupuna, and it is based on visual imagery and affirmation.
As Timmy closed his eyes, I began, "Good. Now Timmy, inside your head you have a little voice. Do you know the voice I am talking about?"
"Uh-huh." Timmy nodded, his eyes still closed tightly. "With that voice inside your head, tell your finger how much you love it and how much you need it." I could see Timmy's little face focused in deep concentration. "Tell your finger that you need it to dial the phone." I paused, watching his little lips silently repeat my words. "And to write your sentences in school." I paused again so he could say the words after me. "And tell it how much you need it to point at things." I waited for another moment and then continued, "Now just say, 'Grow for me finger, grow. I love you and I need you.'"
After a few moments, Timmy opened his eyes.
"How was that?" I asked.
Timmy's tear-stained face glowed. I continued, "Remember to do this every time you think of it during the day and wish your finger well." Kissing him on the forehead, I said my good-byes and started toward the door. Then I suddenly realized something. If the adults in his life are not aware of the real power of this technique, they might discourage him. Not wanting limiting beliefs to swallow up Timmy's possibilities for a miracle, I returned to his bedside.
"Timmy," I told him, "let's wait until your finger is completely healed before we tell anybody about this special technique."
"Okay," he replied.
A few days later, Timmy arrived back in school with a large bandage on his finger. With a big grin on his face, he walked up to me and said quietly, "I'm talking to my finger every day, wishing it well, and it's listening to me." Weeks later, with a joyful burst of energy, Timmy sprinted towards me. He proudly pulled the bandage off to show me the result if 'his work.' "See," he said, "It's growing back really good!"
A year later, Timmy came to say good-bye to me. He and his family were moving to another neighborhood. Timmy's finger was completely healed. It was round and padded just as any index finger should be. Only a fine hairline scar remained.
Timmy remains forever in my heart as a constant reminder of the possibility of miracles. From him, I have learned to challenge the thought of failure as it comes into my mind. To this day, Timmy inspires me to reach beyond the accepted knowledge of the times, and to remember the kupuna wisdom that teaches all things are possible if you truly believe.
- By Trinidad Hunt
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Forever Friend
Someone who changes your life by being a part of it.
Someone who makes you laugh until you can't stop;
Someone who makes you believe that there is really good in this world.
Someone who convinces you that there is
an unlocked door just waiting for you to open it.
This is Forever Friendship.
When you're down, and the world seems dark and empty,
your Forever Friend lifts you up in spirit
and makes that dark and empty world suddenly seem bright and full.
Your Forever Friend gets you through the hard times,
and the sad times, and the confused times.
If you turn and walk away your Forever Friend follows.
If you lose your way, your Forever Friend guides you and cheers you on.
Your Forever Friend holds your hand
and tells you that everything is going to be a-okay.
And when you find such a Friend, you'll feel happy and complete,
because you need not worry.
You Have A "Forever Friend" For Life
and Forever has No end.
© Laurieann Kelly
