My Treasures

I find things I treasure the most
Are friends I made in life,
Those precious few who on the way
Shared all my joys and strife.

Their kindly words and helping hands
When troubles had set in
Renewed my strength and gave me hope
As faith was wearing thin.

They also knew the brighter side
Of picnics when it rained;
And soaking wet, we journeyed home,
A closer friendship gained.

At times we would just sit and talk,
Our secret whims to share.
We spoke of all our hopes and plans,
Unburdened all our cares,

Yes, these friends are treasured people
And treasured memories to;
Like lamplight in the waning day,
They keep my footsteps true.

What though these years of ours be fleeting?
What though the years of youth be flown?
I'll mock old Tempus with repeating,
"I love my love and her alone!"

And when I fall before his reaping,
And when my stuttering speech is dumb,
Think not my love is dead or sleeping,
But that it waits for you to come.

So take, dear love, this little token,
And if there speaks in any line
The sentiment I'd fain have spoken,
Say, will you kiss your Valentine?

Happy Friendship Day

why they are friends

Cause they smile,
Cause they understand just by looking in your eyes,
Cause they know you better than you know yourself,
Cause with them you aren't afraid to be yourself,
Cause you can say something stupid or expose your deepest secrets to them,
Cause everything you do together becomes a memory,
Cause you don't need to do something special to have fun just happens,
Cause you don't need to explain anything they just know,
Cause they believe in your dreams no matter how silly they may seem,
Cause they dry your tears,
Cause you are good enough when you are with them,
Cause they love you for who you are.

A Real Friend

A REAL FRIEND

FAKE FRIENDS: Never ask for food.
REAL FRIENDS: are the reason you have no food....

FAKE FRIENDS: Call your parents Mr/Mrs
REAL FRIENDS: Call your parents DAD/MOM

FAKE FRIENDS: never seen you cry.
REAL FRIENDS: cry with you

FAKE FRIENDS: Borrow your stuff for a few days then give it back.
REAL FRIENDS: keep your shirt so long they forget its yours.

FAKE FRIENDS: know a few things about you.
REAL FRIENDS: Could write a book about you with direct quotes from you.

FAKE FRIENDS: Will leave you behind if that is what the crowd is doing.
REAL FRIENDS: Will kick the whole crowds that left you.

FAKE FRIENDS: Would knock on your front door.
REAL FRIENDS: Walk right in and say "I'M HOME!"

FAKE FRIENDS: Are for awhile.
REAL FRIENDS: Are for lifE

FAKE FRIENDS: Will ignore this
REAL FRIENDS: Will send it bak 2 u

A Friend's Greeting

I'd like to be the sort of friend that
you have been to me;
I'd like to be the help that
you've been always glad to be;

I'd like to mean as much to you
each minute of the day
As you have meant, old friend of mine,
to me along the way.

I'd like to do the big things and
the splendid things for you,
To brush the gray from out your skies
and leave them only blue;

I'd like to say the kindly things that
I so oft have heard,
And feel that I could rouse your soul
the way that mine you've stirred.

I'd like to give you back the joy
that you have given me,
Yet that were wishing you a need
I hope will never be;

I'd like to make you feel as rich as I,
who travel on
Undaunted in the darkest hours with you to
lean upon.

I'm wishing at this time that I
could but repay
A portion of the gladness that
you've strewn along my way;

And could I have one wish this year,
this only would it be:
I'd like to be the sort of friend
that you have been to me.

- Edgar A Guest -

Best Friend Quote

"A friend brings out the best in you."

~Larry Ramirez~ (he's my husband! Contributed by Laura Ramirez)

"Be a Friend to thyself, and others will be so too."

~Thomas Fuller~

"Best friend, my wellspring in the wilderness!"

~ George Eliot~
"A friend is a second self."

~Aristotle~

"My foul-weathered friend."

~Winston Churchill~
"The only way to have a friend is to be one."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."

~Elbert Hubbard~

"A friend in need is a friend indeed."

~John Ray~

Best friend,
My well-spring in the wilderness!

~George Eliot

Friendship marks a life even more
deeply than love.

~Elie Wiesel

Who finds a friend, finds a treasure.

~Jewish saying~

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure
because, of all the things granted us by wisdom,
none is better or greater than friendship.

~Pietro Aretino

A faithful friend is the medicine of life.

~Apocrypha~

I always felt that the great high privilege,
relief and comfort of friendship was the one
had to explain nothing.

~Katherine Mansfield~

A friend is someone who lets you have total
freedom to be yourself.

~Jim Morrison

A true friend champions your successes
and overlooks your failings.

~Laura Ramirez

I don't believe that there is any true
friendship without a bond of honor,
and the honor in friendship is the
respect you give the other that she
also gives you.

~Dorothy Allison

Friendship is a strong and habitual
inclination in two persons to promote
the good and happiness of one another.

~Eustace Budgell

A friend is someone who knows the
song in your heart and can sing it back
to you when you have forgotten the words.

The most selfish 1 letter
“I“
Avoid It.

Most Satisfactory 2 letters
“WE“
Use It.

Most Poisonous 3 letters
“EGO“
Kill It.

Most used 4 letters
“LOVE“
Value It.

Most Pleasing 5 letters
“SMILE“
Keep It.

Fastest Spreading 6 letters
“RUMOUR“
Ignore It.

Hard Working 7 letters
“SUCCESS“
Achieve It.

Most Enviable 8 letters
“JEALOUSY“
Distance It.

Most Essential 9 letters
“PRINCIPLE“
Have It.

Most Divine 10 Letters
“FRIENDSHIP

Friendship

Friendship
is the kind of love
that never can grow old.
Warm and cozy it will stay
when other things are cold.
Friendship is a love so true
it won't be denied,
Because a friend
will always be
there close by your side.
Boyfriends and lovers come and go
in this game of life we play,
But a true friend, no matter what,
in your heart will always stay.
So hold these friends dear to you,
and never let them go.
Think how much they mean to you,
and make sure to tell them so