Talk about anything else: your pets, your car, movies, celebrities, or other things you like. As a reminder, political and religious discussions do not belong in here, nor any other topics that may incite a heated debate! As always keep it clean, please.
Part of me wants to run and hide but part of me wants to better learn how to accept compliments graciously. I can be a bit of a knucklehead about this sometimes. I'll just try to enjoy it.
I could just about retype what I wrote the first time. I still feel all of those things. But I also wanted to revive this thread to remind you just how much you are appreciated by your friends and sisters here.
This place is more that just some place I hang out. It's like the family I never had. And you are part of that Family CJ. A very important part. I hope that the love of all of your friends and sisters here can help heal you and move you out of the darkness you are feeling and into the light.
You know I consider you a special person and friend and I would hope to lift you up as you have so many times for me. I love you.
I wasn't around when this thread was started, and quite frankly I just overlooked it.
What to say of CJ...
Hmmm, it's more like where to start about CJ. Gee, I could fill a book on the subject. But as I'm a bit choked up at the moment, I'll share what some others think about friendship.
CJ, girl, you know what you mean to me. Always be yourself and don't change a damn thing. Ever.
Friendship Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light. - Albert Schweitzer
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. - Aristotle
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth. - Charles Darwin
It is a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be loved by many friends. - Euripides
Convey thy love to thy friend, as an arrow to mark, to stick there, not as a ball against the wall, to rebound back to thee. - Francis Quarles
And let your best be for your friend. If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also. For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill? Seek him always with hours to live. - Kahlil Gibran
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. - Katherine Mansfield
"Your friends will know you better in the first moment you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a lifetime" - Richard Bach, "Illusions"
The most i can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. - Thoreau
Biggest, dearest, deepest hugs for you my friend,
Kyra
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return. - Leonardo DaVinci
CJ; I have to save that you are what makes with forum what it is and what it is all about. I am not much on the use of Love but I must say that I do in my own way Love you CJ. You have saved me time and again in your honest way. I just wish I could say what I truly mean as you do. I have never been good with words (give me numbers every time).
Only tell me here or in private what I can ever do to repay you. Gee.
there is an not so old adage the goes: "A true friend will come and bail you out of jail a real friend will be sitting in the cell beside you saying - Damn that was fun!!!!" I think that one could find several real friends on this fourm and CJ would be leading the group!!
Virginia
First star to the right, then straight on 'till mornin!
Following are some quotes that have influenced my idea of what friendship entails.
A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
Arthur Brisbane,
Have no friends not equal to yourself.
Confucius
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington (1732 - 1799)
True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719),
Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894),
May you choose those most benieficial (amoung us) to the kind of friendships you desire CJ.
