another Friday

It's late and I'm tired.
But I wanted to say that today - all day - and then tonight, I was blessed to be reminded how amazing it is to have friends in your life who care about you, who will hold you and up and give you hope when you have no strength left yourself.

I don't have a lot of friends and I think I may be one shorter than I was a few weeks ago, but the ones I have are absolutely incredible.

I was inspired to pull together a few quick quotes on friendship - these are for the people in my life who love me and support me, no matter what.

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."

"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."  - Elbert Hubard

"Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend

Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end." - John Boyle O'Reilly

"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
"I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me. I'd like to be the help that you've been always glad to be; I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day, as you have meant, old friend of mine, to me along the way."   - Edgar A. Guest
"You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back."   -Barbara DeAngelis

Someone to lean on when problems appear,

Someone on whom you’d depend,
Someone who’ll lift you when you’re down in the dumps,
That someone is truly a friend.
That’s how I feel about you my dear friend;
You’re so special just as you are.
Just to know that you’re there provides comfort to spare;
A friendship like yours sets the bar.
     By Karl and Joanna Fuchs