A gift of friendly thoughts . . .

 

 

Friendly thoughts are quite like flowers. They cost little, but mean an awful lot. There is no wayside weed but makes its little world lovelier and  more fragrant, and blessed is the traveller who is able to see and comprehend its message. Therefore it follows that there is no friendly thought, however inarticulate, that does not carry with it a two-fold blessing.  These pretty posies I am sharing with you today have been gleaned from other men's gardens, for the simple pleasure of gathering, but also that they might be passed along to the friends in my garden.  May these "Friendly Thoughts" take wing and bring you not only a message of friendship, but also a small ray of happiness for today and always . . . 

 

  

 

"What is the secret of your life?  

Asked Mrs. Browning of Charles Kingsley: 

"Tell  me that I may make mine beautiful too."

 

He replied, "I had a friend."  

 

 

 

True friends, like ivy and the wall, 

both stand together, and together fall  . . .  

 

 

 

Of all the blessings Heaven doth send,

Of all the gifts that life doth lend,

Of all rewards the utmost end,

Of joys the esence and the blend . . . 

Here's to one who'll not pretend

But is, and stays the steadfast friend! 

 

  

 

He is my friend!  The words

brought Summer and the birds;

And all my Winter time

thawed ito running rhyme

and rippled into song,

Warm, tender, brave and strong.

And so it sings today  . . . 

So may it sing alway!

Let each mute measure end

with "Still he is my friend."

~James Whitcomb Riley

 

 

In hours of distress and misery, the eyes of every mortal man turn to friendship; in the hour of gladness and conviviality, what is our want? It is friendship. When the heart overflows with gratitude, or with any other sweet and sacred sentiment, what is the word to which it would give utterance? A friend.  

~Landor

 

   

 

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.  

~Victor Hugo 

 

 

 

Blessed are they who have the gift of m aking friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating what is noble and loving in another. 

 ~Thomas Hughes 

 

  

 

A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.  

~William Penn

 

 

He who has a thousand friends,

Has not a friend to spare,

And he who has one enemy

will meet him everywhere.

~Ali Ben Abu Taheb

 

 

  

 

Friendship above al ties does bind the heart,

and faith in friendship is the noblest part.

~Lord Orrery  

 

 

 

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to others? 

 ~George Eliot 

 

  

 

I would be friend to all . . . the foe . . . the friendless,

I would be giving and forget the gift,

I would be humble, for I know my weakness,

I would look up . . .  and laugh . . . and love  . . . and lift!

~Howard A Walter 

 

 

 

The language of friendship is not words, but meanings.

It has an intelligence above language.

~Henry David Thoreau 

 

  

 

My friends have come unsought.

The great God gave them to me.

~Emerson 

 

 

 

God never loved me in so sweet a way before.

'Tis He along who can such blessings send.

And when His love would new expressions find,

He brought thee to me and He said . . . 

"Behold a friend."

 

  

 

Youth is the season of friendships, when we are rodigal with our affections, and thus it happens that of all those fonds so thoughtlessly formed, some endure. It is an instinct of the heart that provides a store for the winter.  

~Arthur S Hardy

 

  

 

People who have warm friends are healthier and happier than those who have none. A single real friend is a treasure worth more than gold or precious stones. Money can buy many things, good and evil. All the wealth of the world could not buy you a friend or pay you for the loss of one. 

 

 

 

Forsake not an old friend;

for the new is not comparable to him;

a new friend is as new wine;

when it is old thou shalt drink with pleasure.

~Proverbs 

 

  

 

A friend is a present you give yourself,

That's one of my old-time songs

So I put you down with the best of them

For you're where the best belongs. 

 

Among the gifts I have given to me

Most comforting tried and true,

The one that I oftenest think about

is my gift to myself of You.

~Carrie Jacobs Bond

  

 

In The English Kitchen today  . . .  Baked Eggs.  These make a lovely light weeknight supper.  You can have them on the table in about 15 minutes at a stretch!  I like to bake some toast fingers alongside for dipping into those golden yolks.  Cheesy, simple and delicious! 

 

Have a fabulous Wednesday!  Don't forget along the way of your day! 

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And I do too!