It’s not time or opportunity that determines intimacy; it’s disposition alone. 7 years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, & 7 days are more than enough for others.
Water Your Flowers
Someone congratulated a friend and they deflected the compliment. So the original speaker said, “I’m gonna give you your flowers, you can water them or not. Water your flowers.
The Benjamin Franklin Effect
If you want someone to like you, ask them to do you a small favor. It might sound backward, but studies show that if you do something nice for someone, you will like them more and want to help them again. It’s called The Benjamin Franklin Effect. According to legend, Franklin asked an enemy if he could borrow a book, then thanked him profusely. They became lifelong friends.
Continue Firm And Constant
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant. ~ Socrates
A Friend With Chocolate
There is nothing better than a friend unless it’s a friend with chocolate. ~ Linda Grayson
What! You Too?
Friendship… is born at the moment when one man says to another, “What? You too? I thought that no one but myself…” ~ C. S. Lewis
Go Out To Be A Friend
If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere. ~ Zig Ziglar
My Shadow Does That Much Better
I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. ~ Plutarch
To All The Women Then and Now…
Feelings penetrating deep
Have caused my hand to grasp
A pen that I might convey
The impact you all have.
Close Friends Are Truly Life’s Treasures
Close friends are truly life’s treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves, with gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never truly alone. ~ Vincent Van Gogh