A Good Friend

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.” ― Helen Keller

Recently we visited the new home of some very good friends. It had been a while since we were able to sit and enjoy the company of each other. It reminded me of just how lucky and privileged we are to have friends in life. If you have no friends, it would seem a lonely and dull life one lives. Friends when gathered represent a strong bond with life itself.

It helps to reflect upon those friendships from time to time. So here are a few quotes to help you with that. When done, give your friends a call and get on with being friends again.

"The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had." ~ Author Unknown

"Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend." ~ Plautus

"Strangers are just friends waiting to happen." ~ Rod McKuen

"Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends." ~ Shirley Maclaine

"A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world." ~ Lois Wyse

"The best time to make friends is before you need them." ~ Ethel Barrymore

"A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should." ~ Author Unknown

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive." ~ Anäis Nin

"A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world." ~ Thomas A. Edison

"The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses." ~ David Storey

"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Turn those strangers into friends and develop a great life time of friendship.

Stay inspired my friends!