Hello,
Someone highly respected told me recently during an eyeball-to-eyeball discussion
“… my brother, your handicap, your paralysis, is your natural-bent to be thoroughly loyal, faithful and trusting to friends and authority figures in your life…”.
Another younger friend told me, the same week, in a no-holds-barred discussion
“…your problem is you put too much (of yourself) into relationships with people you love. Hence, when they mess you up, it always leave BIG GASHes all the time,…I don’t!”
See quotes below on friendship. These quoted men & women, largely ‘unchurched’ people, may not be ‘bible-quoting’ but they, individually, seem to strike some truth chords. Isn’t it?
Toks – The Liteman.
QUOTES ON FRIENDSHIP (what some say):
“You find out who your real friends are when you’re involved in a scandal” Elizabeth Taylor
“Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for families” Anonymous
“It’s the ones you can call up at 4a.m. that matter” Marlene Dietrich
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out” Walter Winchell
“Everybody wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you need is somebody who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down” Oprah Winfrey
“Every business is built on friendship” J. C. Penney
“Close friends [make] the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder” Judith Viorst, Necessary Losses
“One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible” Henry Adams
“Everybody,s friend is nobody’s” Arthur Schopenhauer
“The best mirror is an old friend” George Herbert, Welsh poet and priest
“You can always tell a real friend: When you’ve made a fool of yourself, he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job” Laurent J. Peter
“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked” Bernard Meltzer, radio host and personality
“My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven’t met yet.
She’s now in a maximum-security twilight home in Australia” Dame Edna Everage
ReadersDigest.com
March 2009