Life without friendship
is like the dawn without the sun.

Life without friendship
is like the sky without the moon
when the evening has begun.

Once the package of friendship
has been opened,
it can never be closed.
It is a constant book always written…
waiting to be read…
and enjoyed.

Once in a while you find a friend
Who loves you right from the start,
And the friendship is so true and right
It warms your deepest heart.

They say a friend is someone who is always there for you,
To share in your life’s laughter and to cheer you when you’re blue.

Take my hand my friend
I wish to help you along
Just knowing there are two of us
Can help to make you strong

No matter where we go or who we become,
never forget who helped us get there.

Sometimes we walk through life,
Not even knowing where to go,
Without a destination, or knowing why,
Or with what kind of purpose…

And a youth said, “Speak to us of Friendship.”
Your friend is your needs answered.
He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.
And he is your board and your fireside.
For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.

“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.

“It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.” – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
“We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.” – William James