Friends..friends...friends

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.  ~Arnold H. Glasgow

A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. ~Donna Roberts

Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you.  They are not perfect but are always perfect for you.  ~Author Unknown

If you’re alone, I’ll be your shadow.  If you want to cry, I’ll be your shoulder.  If you want a hug, I’ll be your pillow.  If you need to be happy, I’ll be your smile.  But anytime you need a friend, I’ll just be me. ~Author Unknown

There are big ships and small ships.  But the best ship of all is friendship.  ~Author Unknown

My Friends Signed On!

A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked.~Author Unknown

It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.  ~Marlene Dietrich

What is a friend?  A single soul dwelling in two bodies. ~Aristotle

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us.  That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.  ~Emily Kimbrough

Hold a true friend with both your hands. ~Nigerian Proverb

Are we not like two volumes of one book?  ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

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

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

A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself. ~Frances Ward Weller

You can always tell a real friend:  when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.  ~Laurence J. Peter

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

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.  ~Sicilian Proverb

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. ~Elisabeth Foley

Yesterday brought the beginning, tomorrow brings the end, and somewhere in the middle we became the best of friends.  ~Author Unknown

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.  The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. 
~Henri Nouwen

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.  ~Dave Tyson Gentry

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. ~Virginia Woolf

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.  ~Henry David Thoreau

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

Silences make the real conversations between friends.  Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.  ~Margaret Lee Runbeck

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. ~George MacDonald

Promise..

We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears. ~Francois duc de la Rochefoucauld

Oaths are but words, and words but wind. ~Samuel Butler

To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.  ~Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1876

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath. ~Aeschylus

The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.  ~Napoleon Bonaparte

When a man takes an oath… he’s holding his own self in his own hands.  Like water.  And if he opens his fingers then – he needn’t hope to find himself again. ~Robert Bolt

Never take a solemn oath.  People think you mean it.  ~Norman Douglas

Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters.  This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting. 
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All promise outruns performance.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them. ~Thomas Fuller

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.  ~Norman Vincent Peale

He loses his thanks who promises and delays. ~Proverb

Promise is most given when the least is said.  ~George Chapman

Eggs and oaths are easily broken. ~Danish Proverb

Nothing weights lighter than a promise.  ~German Proverb

A promise made is a debt unpaid. ~Robert Service

Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.  ~Jonathan Swift

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise. ~William Dean Howells

Losers make promises they often break.  Winners make commitments they always keep.  ~Denis Waitley

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot. ~Abraham Lincoln

For every promise, there is price to pay.  ~Jim Rohn

The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.
~William Lyon MacKenzie

Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day.  ~German Proverb

One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises that one makes. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.  ~Thomas Fuller

Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.~William Hazlitt

The promise given was a necessity of the past:  the word broken is a necessity of the present.  ~Niccolo Machiavelli

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing. ~Edmund Burke

Oaths are the fossils of piety.  ~George Santayana

Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing. ~Bernard M. Baruch

Let God’s promises shine on your problems. ~Corrie Ten Boom

Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.  ~Dutch Proverb

A promise is a comfort for a fool. ~Proverb

He was ever precise in promise-keeping.  ~William Shakespeare

When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you. ~Proverb

A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain.  ~Arabian Proverb

I thought he was a young man of promise; but it appears he was a young man of promises. ~Author Unknown

It is useless to hold a person to anything he says while he is in love, drunk, or running for office.  ~Shirley MacLaine

And be these juggling friends no more believ’d,
That palter with us in a double sense;
That keep the word of promise to our ear
And break it to our hope.
~William Shakespeare

Promise little and do much.  ~Hebrew Proverb

Promise only what you can deliver.  Then deliver more than you promise. ~Author Unknown

This is the first convention of the space age – where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.  ~Author Unknown

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfill nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition. ~Carl Jung

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.  ~Niccolo Machiavelli

Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught. ~Sydney J. Harris

Life didn’t promise to be wonderful.  ~Teddy Pendergrass

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform. ~William Penn

Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.  ~Mohandas Gandhi

A promise is a debt. ~Proverb

A liar is always lavish of oaths.  ~Pierre Corneille

Everyone’s a millionaire where promises are concerned. ~Author Unknown

In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything.  In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone’s letter.  ~Chinese Proverb

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.  ~Jean Jacques Rousseau

Between today and tomorrow are graves, and between promising and fulfilling are chasms.  ~Author Unknown

One promises much, to avoid giving little. ~Marquis de Vauvenargues

Go for it now.  The future is promised to no one.  ~Wayne Dyer

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans. ~Peter F. Drucker

Being of no power to make his wishes good:
His promises fly so beyond his state
That what he speaks is all in debt; he owes
For every word.
~William Shakespeare

Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits. ~William Shakespeare

Quotes of the day

Life is so short, so fast the lone hours fly,
We ought to be together, you and I.
~Henry Alford

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.  ~Tryon Edwards

As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence. ~Alcibiades

In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.  ~Hans Nouwens

I think about you constantly, whether it’s with my mind or my heart. ~Albany Bach Reid

You left, and my heart is a ceaseless sermon of loneliness.  ~Jaesse Tyler

I dropped a tear in the ocean.  The day you find it is the day I will stop missing you. ~Author Unknown

To die and part is a less evil; but to part and live, there, there is the torment.  ~George Lansdowne

In the hope to meet
Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
~Ben Jonson

The joy of meeting pays the pangs of absence; else who could bear it?  ~Nicholas Rowe

We only part to meet again. ~John Gay

Don’t be dismayed by good-byes.  A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.  And meeting again after moments or a lifetime is certain for those who are friends.  ~Richard Bach

Missing you could turn from pain to pleasure, if I knew you were missing me too. ~Author Unknown

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.  ~Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. ~Norman Cousins

It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise.  This is true of men as of dogs.  ~Eric Hoffer

I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long.  If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can play together all night.~Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes

The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.
~Henry Maudsley

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.~Kahlil Gibran

Let your tears come.  Let them water your soul.  ~Eileen Mayhew

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion.  I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. ~Kurt Vonnegut

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
~Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, 1860

The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. 
~John Vance Cheney

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.  ~Christian Nevell Bovee

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.~Natalie Clifford Barney

To weep is to make less the depth of grief.
~William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth

Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either. ~Golda Meir

Tears are Summer showers to the soul.  ~Alfred Austin, Savonarola

Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion. ~Steel Magnolias

What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.  ~Jewish Proverb

I like the snot to run a little, the tears to accumulate a bit before reaching for the handkerchief.  Then I know I’m really crying.  Crying just isn’t crying unless it’s messy. ~D.H. Mondfleur

I often want to cry.  That is the only advantage women have over men – at least they can cry.  ~Jean Rhys

It is such a secret place, the land of tears. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive.  Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.  ~Henry Ward Beecher

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. ~Marlene Dietrich

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.  ~Lewis B. Smedes,

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. ~Paul Boese

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.  ~Antoine Rivarol

If you can’t forgive and forget, pick one.
~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.  ~George Herbert

There’s no point in burying a hatchet if you’re going to put up a marker on the site. ~Sydney Harris

Without forgiveness life is governed by… an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.  ~Roberto Assagioli

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury. ~E.H. Chapin

Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
~Oscar Wilde

Never waste jealousy on a real man:  it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run. ~George Bernard Shaw

In jealousy there is more self-love than love.
~François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy. ~Lawrence Durrell

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.  ~William Penn

Lips that taste of tears, they say,
Are the best for kissing.~Dorothy Parker

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.  ~Josh Billings

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow’s blessings instead of your own. ~Harold Coffin

Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.  ~Mark Twain

As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy.~Antisthenes

It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears.  ~Ovid

Tears are the silent language of grief. ~Voltaire

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.  ~George Eliot

Jealousy is a crutch. ~C. Astrid Weber

Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.  ~Honore de Balzac

Forgiveness is a funny thing.  It warms the heart and cools the sting. ~William Arthur Ward

The cure for anything is salt water – sweat, tears, or the sea.  ~Isak Dinesen

Trifles light as air
Are to the jealous confirmations strong
As proofs of holy writ.~William Shakespeare, Othello

The jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads.
~Dorothy Dix

Envy is ignorance. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on.~William Shakespeare, Othello

I heard the teardrop hit my pillow before I even knew I was crying.~Amborella Oltre

Envy assails the noblest:  the winds howl around the highest peaks.  ~Ovid

The truest mark of being born with great qualities is being born without envy. ~Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

The weak can never forgive.  Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.  ~Mahatma Gandhi

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive. ~Havelock Ellis

If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill.  ~Danish Proverb

No matter who broke your heart, or how long it takes to heal, you’ll never get through it without your friends.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. You are no longer alive.

I don’t miss him, I miss who I thought he was.

It’s hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone when your heart still does.
Jealousy injures us with the dagger of self-doubt.  ~Leslie Grimutter

If someone you love hurts you cry a river, build a bridge, and get over it.

Never be sad for what is over, just be glad that it was once yours.

Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. ~Mark Twain

Time goes by a lot slower when you miss the one you love.

A day without you is like a day without sunshine… I miss you…

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

You may be out of my sight… but never out of my mind… I Miss You!