Hello, my friend

Can you imagine what life would be like if we didn't have any friends?

Indeed, as William Blake, the great English poet had once said, "A bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship."

Yes, in good times or in bad, I think we all need a friend.

Now, who then is a friend and what is friendship truly made of?

Well, here are some nice quips for us to ponder.

"A friend is one who accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should." (~Author unknown)

"Only your real friends will tell you your face is dirty." (~Sicilian Proverb)

"A good friend is someone who knows you're a good egg even if you're a little cracked." (~Author unknown)

"A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be." (~Douglas Pagels)

"If I had to sum up Friendship in one word, it would be Comfort." (~Adabella Radici)

"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)

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (~Martin Luther King Jr.)

"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down." (~Oprah Winfrey)

"Friendships can dissolve very quickly in bear markets." (~Author unknown)

"One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim." (~Henry Brooks Adams)

"He who has a thousand friend has not a friend to spare, and he who has an enemy will meet him everywhere."(~Ralph Waldo Emerson)

"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair." (~Samuel Johnson)

"There is no greater love than this that a man is willing to lay down his life for a friend." (~Holy Bible)

Yes indeed, I believe the greatest healing therapy in this world is friendship and love.

So in conclusion let me say, "Hello again, my friend"!