Garden
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.”
— Alfred Tennyson
Tag: taking risk
Simple Gift
“When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.”
– Maria Shriver
Image: Valerie Elash
Sitting Silently
“Sitting silently beside a friend who is hurting may be the best gift we can give.”
Image: Pink sunset – Harli Marten
No Rules
“There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.”
– William Hazlitt
Not Something You Learn
“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.”
– Muhammad Ali
Image: Charlein Gracia
Alone
“We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.”
– Orson Welles
Stages of Life
“Everyone has a friend during each stage of life. But only lucky ones have the same friend in all stages of life.”
Friendship
“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
Some Places
“Once a year, go some places you’ve never been before.”
– Dalai Lama