best friend forever

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost." 
- Charles Caleb Colton

 "Sometimes you pick your friends, sometimes they pick you." 
- (sent by Steve Klaka)

 "The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him, his own." 
-Benjamin Disraeli

 "I can trust my friends. These people force me to examine, encourage me to grow." 
-Cher

 "Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being." 
-Goethe

 "Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You canít have too many friends because then youíre just not really friends." 

 Give others freedom to be themselves. Appreciate the differences between their ways an yours." 
- (sent by Jennifer Chen)

 "Friend - a person known well to another and regarded with liking, affection and loyalty." 
- Collins English Dictionary

 "Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success." 
- Oscar Wilde

 "Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade."
- William Shakespeare

 "Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world." 
- Eleanor Roosevelt

 Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship." 
- Cicero

 Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind." 
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods." 
- Artistotle

 "My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me." 
- Henry Ford

 "What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. They are but trifles, to be sure but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable."

 No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence." 
- George Eliot

 "It is a sweet thing, friendship, a dear balm,
A happy and auspicious bird of calm..." 
- Shelly

 "The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away." 
- Wilson Mizner

 The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters." 
- Thomas Jefferson

"Friendship is always a sweet responsibilty, never an oppourtunity." 
- Kahil Gibran