Secret #6: Connection - Friendship - An Addendum

I can attest to the fact that Sapphire loves (and is an embodiment of) true friendship. After reading her posting, I did a quick a re-appraisal of my friends and myself as a friend (an ongoing exercise…). In addition, I quickly checked my Power Bible software for Friendship quotations. I have extracted 12 precious golden nuggets on FRIENDSHIP

1.No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth. -Anonymous
2.Insomuch as any one pushes you nearer to God, he or she is your friend. -Anonymous
3.The strength and sweetness of friendship depend on sincerity tempered by sympathy. -Anonymous
4.What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. -Aristotle
5.Friendship is in loving rather than in being loved. -Bridges
6.Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends. -Delille
7.The only way to have a friend is to be one. -Emerson
8.It is possible for two people who have wide differences of preference and opinion, of habits, of teaching, of training, of background and belief to enjoy the company of each other in many ways. Indeed, a diversity of friendships is one of life's real enrichments. To learn of the goodness of those who are unlike-their worth, their sincerity, their good hearts, their good minds, their good company-is rich and rewarding. It is wonderful to have a wide range of choice friends who can be counted on, friends who can be enjoyed and loved and trusted. Such is the meaning of friendship. -Evans
9.The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for. -Home
10.Those are our best friends in whose presence we are able to be our best selves. -Kohler
11.Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. -Fontaine
12.A friend will be sure to act the part of an advocate before he will assume that of a judge. -South