April 16, 2006
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I am awed, humbled, and amazed at the incredible friends that Lorena and I have. Duane Godwin came very close to reducing me to tears tonight just by talking to me — just as Nony did a few days before. The girls hate to go shopping with me because a dozen people will stop me each short trip to ask how Lorena is doing — and how I am doing. Lorraine excitedly informed me after Papá’s funeral that Socorro and Javier Almeria were sitting behind her at the funeral. (They are her godparents from the days he was Mexican Consul General to Germany, and she has exquisite artwork that they brought her from their days in the Mexican Embassy in Iran.) I thank God every day for the friends and family I have. I can never think of friends without remembering my Sri Lankan Tamil friend, Kanatna Sribalaratnam, a janitor in my school in Germany who had fled the Sinhalese/Tamil strife in Sri Lanka, coming into my classroom (just before I was to go to Mexico to marry Lorena), asking me if it was true that I had used all my savings helping some East German and Czech friends, and, when I admitted (rather dejectedly) that it was, plopping $5000 USD cash on the desk and insisting that I take it to cover wedding costs, travel, etc. He did not even want to accept an IOU.
Kara Nicole, this is especially for you. I pray that you find and surround yourself with true friends who would do absolutely anything for you and who value you more than they value their own lives with nothing asked in return. I did not intend to make this posting on Easter, but nothing could be more appropriate today than a posting about love and friendship. I love those old hymns, and it is true: “What a Friend We Have in Jesus.” Not only did He die for us, but now He lives for us… Would that I could live better for Him…
Greater love hath no man…
Thank you for the quotes, Asma.
Friendship Quotes By Famous Personalities
“A Friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.”
Henry Ford
“To like and dislike the same things, which is indeed true friendship.”
Sallust
“Have no friends not equaled to yourself.”
Confucious
“True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their
worth and choice.”
Samuel Johnson
“Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own
reputation; for ’tis better to be alone than in bad company.”
George Washington
“Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone
you love, aren’t you already there?”
Richard Bach
“Tell me what company thou keep’s, and I’ll tell thee what thou art.”
Miguel de Cervantes
“The best mirror is an old friend.”
George Herbert
“It takes a long time to grow an old friend.”
John Leonard
“The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is
to be one.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.”
Jacques Delille
“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.”
Euripides
“I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new
acquaintance.”
Samuel Johnson
“Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must
have somebody to divide it with.”
Mark Twain
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be
stupid with them.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life,
he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his
friendship in constant repair.”
Samuel Johnson
“It is more shameful to distrust one’s friends than to be deceived
by them.”
Duc de la Rochefoucauld
“Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend unjudged, accepted,
trusted to the end.”
John Boyle O’Reilly
“True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and
withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to
the appellation.”
George Washington
“It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident
knowledge that they will help us.”
Epicurus
“Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose
inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own
accord will love you more than one whom you have been
at pains to attach to you.”
Samuel Johnson
“Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm
and constant.”
Socrates
“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”
Woodrow Wilson
“Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires
a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.”
Oscar Wilde
“Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot
be friends with anyone else in the world.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe
in yourself.”
Unknown
“Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.”
Aristotle
“A friend in need is a friend indeed.”
Unknown
“A friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be
anywhere else.”
Len Wein
“A true friend stabs you in the front.”
Oscar Wilde
“Never hurt a friend, even in jest.”
Cicero
“No man is useless while he has a friend.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“The friendship that can cease has never been real.”
Saint Jerome
“The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have
of a man’s success in life.”
Edward Everett Hale
“Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn
unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.”
Unknown
“True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known
until it be lost.”
Charles Caleb Colton
“The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no
wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him,
he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?”
Henry David Thoreau
“Friendship without self interest is one of the rare and beautiful things
in life.”
James Francis Byrnes
“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”
Helen Keller
“Happiness is time spent with a friend and looking forward to sharing
time with them again.”
Lee Wilkinson
“A friend to all is a friend to none.”
Aristotle
“Never shall I forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend,
as you will always find me yours.”
Ludwig Van Beethoven
“Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may
not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.”
Albert Camus
Comments (2)
Beautiful quotes both here and the previous post. There is so much wisdom and comfort in quotes…
I am so happy for you and Lorena that you have such wonderful friends. You know why you do right? Because you are both so wonderful…
I hope you are having a blessed Easter..
Marlene
Oh Thank You so much for this post. You brought tears to my eyes!! I am going to save this for ever. You are so strong with all thats going on, I only pray that someday I can be as strong as you are, and such a good parent as you are. You and your family are in my prayers every night. THANK YOU!!!!!! I love the quotes by the way…! : ) : ) : )