Friendship

  Friendship

Friendship is love,
Without friendship love means nothing!
Without friendship love is empty…
Without friendship love is boring...!

Friendship means sharing…
People learn to share from friendship,
Share everything they have in life,

Friendship is like stars,
Even though we always see them together
Always mean to each other…
But,
Sometimes they argue!

Friendship is like flower,
Soft but strong!
Friendship is like sun,
Bright and beautiful!


Friendship is everything in life,
Life without friendship is like life without air…
Life without friendship is like eats without food
And
Life without friendship is like body without soul…

Friendship is wide!
Anybody can be our friend,
Our parents, our grandparents, our sister, our brother and even our school principal!

Friendship….
Is everything!

~Friendship is........'Frienship'~

Friendship is there where ever you go
Friendship is there when you over dose
Friendship loves and Friendship cares
Friendship is life with a little dares

Friendship hurts when your not there
Friendship dies everywhere
Friendship is even the life you lost
Friendship is love with a little cost

.......And that's why 'Friendship' is what it is today
You can't live 'life' with enemies in your way
So go back to school and make up
Tell your enemies you f***ed up

.......And maybe just maybe they'll say 'Okay! '
Then your life would be easier today
Now go home and explain everything
Friendship means multiple meanings everyday

You Are My Best Friend

You are my best friend through thick and thin. When
You reach for my hand you touch my heart. You are
The bestest friend that i can have.
You are there for me when i need you the most. You
Cheer me up when i am down. If i am about to cry u
Make me smile. You are my bestest friend and i can
Not lie.
You listen to me and give me advice, advice that comes
Straight from the bottom of your precious heart. You are
My best friend in the whole wide world and i couldn't ask
God for a little bit more.
We are going to grow older, and things will change but our
Friendship will forever still remain. I'll make new friends but
That won't change because you will always be my best friend.

I'd like to mean as much to you as you mean to me. I'd like to
Be some help to you as you have been to me. I'd like to know
That as we grow old our lives will change but that our

Friendship will still remain.
Me and you will never be apart maybe in distance but never in
Heart for our friendship is way to strong to let it go off
just like
That.
All i can say is that you are my best friend and i swear to God
That i don't want it to change. I may move to a different state but
That doesn't mean that our friendship will end, because you will
Always be my best friend. No matter what life has destined for us
I know that our friendship will never die.

Friendship is and can be.

My freind is all of these!

Friendship is to trust
Friendship is having the kindness to help
Friendship is giving to others without thinking
Friendship is being there when someone need you
Friendship can be just a smile that brightens your day
Friendship is giving more than you expect to receive
Friendship is listening
Friendship is offering your opinion when you think you need to
Friendship can be many things
Friendship is different for everyone
Friendship could be holding a hand for support
Friendship is lending your shoulder to cry on
Friendship is mellow
Friendship is giving back
Friendship is only taking that what you need
Friendship can be that voice of reason you give
Friendship could also be a boost of encouragement when it’s needed
Friendship stands the test of time
Friendship is show in many different ways
Friendship can be everlasting
Friendship is not always an easy thing
Friendship is hard to break apart
Friendship is strong
Friendship should never be taken for granted
Friendship is meant to be shared with all
Friendship is free and rewarding to share
Friendship can be unforgettable
Friendship is priceless to many
Friendship is a secret never to be told
Friendship is not having to say sorry but do
Friendship is not judging no matter what
Friendship is to share, the joy and the fear
Friendship is someone to run too when things are tough
Friendship is a hand to hold when things are so rough
Friendship is someone to laugh with not at you
Freindship is just knowing they are there
Freindship is very personal
Freindship is all of thes things and many more
This is are how I see friendship
To have a true Friend is the best thing to achieve
We all have one but it may take a very long time to find them.

The One Best Friend

Thanks for being there for me,
through good times and bad times.
I will be on your side even if the the world ends.
When the world is going,
I will be here,
now and until the end.
Your my very best friend.
The one that I look up to.
The one that I run to, when I have a problem.
The one that I talk to.
Your the one best friend that was always there for me.
I wanna thank you for all the things you gave and showed me.

You Are Mine

You are mine, my best friend,
The one I can confide in, until the end.
The one who has seen every tear,
Whose hands boldly hold all of my fears.
You are mine, my other half that makes me complete,
Who never lets me feel like I am going through defeat.
You're the one who has always been there,
To show me how much that you truely care.
You are mine, my happiness in me,
Who's opened my eyes and really made me see.
Your compassion and love has shone through the clouds,
Leaving me with no more fears or doubts.
You are mine, an angel for me,
Whose smile is sent to make me happy.
The one who always has faith in your heart,
To make sure that I don't fall apart.
You are mine, without any question,
Giving me lots of hugs and affection.
You are mine, my best friend,
Whom I will always love until the very end!
I love you Lauren! Thanks for everything!

Quotes

‘If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.’

— Maya Angelou

‘Change is in all things sweet.’

— Aristotle

‘Loss is nothing else but change, and change is nature’s delight.’

— Marcus Aurelius

‘Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding.’

— Marcus Aurelius

‘Observe constantly that all things take place by change.’

— Marcus Aurelius

‘We must change in order to survive.’

— Pearl Bailey

‘To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.’

— Henri Bergson

‘If the people don’t want to come out of the park, nobody’s going to stop them.’

— Yogi Berra

‘Those who have changed the universe have never done it by changing officials, but always by inspiring the people.’

— Napoleon Boneparte

‘Nothing we can do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future.’

— Ashleigh Brilliant

‘If you can neither accept it or change it, try to laugh at it.’

— Ashleigh Brilliant

‘Weep not that the world changes—did it keep
A stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.’

— William Bryant

‘Do not cherish the unworthy desire that the changeable might become the unchanging.’

— Gautama Buddha

‘The best-laid schemes o’mice an’ men gang aft agley.’

— Robert Burns

‘I am not now
That which I have been.’

— George Byron

‘In order to learn one must change one’s mind.’

— Orson Scott Card

‘Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.’

— Carlos Castaneda

‘A great wind is blowing and that gives you either imagination or a headache.’

— Catherine the Great

‘To improve is to change. To be perfect is to change often.’

— Winston Churchill

‘It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.’

— Alan Cohen

‘They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.’

— Confucius

‘It is only the wisest and the stupidest that do not change.’

— Confucius

‘The capacity of the human mind for invention far outstrips its ability to assimilate the changes that inventions produce.’

— Darryl Conner

‘The only way to change our lives is by changing our minds.’

— Ross Cooper

‘Every human has four endowments: self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom — The power to choose, to respond, to change.’

— Steven Covey

‘The world’s a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.’

— Abraham Cowley

‘Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.’

— Anthony J. D’Angelo

‘It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.’

— Clarence Darrow

‘Since changes are going on anyway, the great thing is to learn enough about them so that we will be able to lay hold of them and turn them in the direction of our desires. Conditions and events are neither to be fled from nor passively acquiesced in; they are to be utilized and directed.’

— John Dewey

‘ In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.’

— Benjamin Disraeli

‘One cannot manage change. One can only be ahead of it.’

— Peter F. Drucker

‘Men are not moved by things, but the views they take of them.’

— Epitectus

‘All is change; all yields its place and goes.’

— Euripedes

‘All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another.’

— Anatole France

‘When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.’

— Benjamin Franklin

‘You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.’

— Richard Buckminster Fuller

‘Faced with changing one's mind, or proving that there is no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.’

— John Kenneth Galbraith

‘In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.’

— J. Paul Getty

‘You must be the change you wish to see in the world.’

— Mahatma Gandhi

‘We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.’

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

‘Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.’

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

‘Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don’t change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to
milk a dead cow.’

— Woodie Guthrie

‘Everything flows and nothing abides; everything gives way and nothing stays fixed... Cool things become warm, the warm grows cool; the moist dries, the parched becomes moist... It is in changing that things find repose.’

— Heraclitus

‘Nothing is permanent but change.’

— Heraclitus

‘In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.’

— Eric Hoffer

‘There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that; it is often a comfort to shift one’s position, and be bruised in a new place.’

— Washington Irving

‘Change is not made without inconvenience.’

— Samuel Johnson

‘Change is like putting lipstick on a bulldog. The bulldog's appearance hasn't improved, but now it's really angry.’

— Rosbeth Moss Kanter

‘Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.’ (The more things change, the more they are the same)

— Alphonse Karr

‘There is nothing more certain and unchanging than uncertainty and change.’

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

‘Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss future.’

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

‘Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator and change has its enemies.’

— Robert Kennedy

‘The world hates change yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.’

— Charles F. Kettering

‘Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.’

— Martin Luther King

‘The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.’

— Martin Luther King

‘We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.’

— R. D. Laing

‘You don’t get creative by staying in the same place.’

— Andy Law

‘Are you willing to be sponged out, erased, cancelled, made nothing? Are you willing to be made nothing? Dipped into oblivion? If not, you will never really change.’

— D. H. Lawrence

‘When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.’

— Stanislaw Lec

‘If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.’

— Kurt Lewin

‘The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.’

— Abraham Lincoln

‘All things must change
To something new, to something strange.’

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

‘Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.’

— Helen Keller

‘There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order to things.’

— Niccolò Machiavelli

‘One change leaves the way open for the introduction of others.’

— Niccolò Machiavelli

‘Never doubt that a small, group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.’

— Margaret Mead

‘And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.’

— Thomas More

‘When change is rapid and problems abundant, society must be creatively adaptive or fall further and further behind.’

— David Moss

‘All things change, nothing perishes.’

— Ovid

‘Change does not change tradition, it strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat.’

— Prince Philip

‘An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.’

— Max Planck

‘You are so young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as judge of the highest matters.’

— Plato

‘Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.’

— Bertrand Russell

‘Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.’

— Arthur Schopenhauer

‘Old fashions please me best; I am not so nice
To change true rules for odd inventions.’

— William Shakespeare

‘Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything.’

— George Bernard Shaw

‘Fate is written in wood, not stone.’

— Geraint Straker

‘It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.’

— Publilius Syrus

‘Things do not change; we change.’

— Henry David Thoreau

‘A competitive world offers two possibilities. You can lose. Or, if you want to win, you can change.’

— Lester Thurow

‘Change is not merely necessary to life—it is life.’

— Alvin Toffler

‘Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.’

— Leo Tolstoy

‘It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable—he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated.’

— Leo Tolstoy

‘The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next.’

— Mark Twain

‘If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.’

— Lao Tzu

‘The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.’

— Alan Watts

‘They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.’

— Andy Warhol

‘The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.’

— Alfred North Whitehead

‘He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.’

— Harold Wilson

 

Two classical views of friendship

Aristotle provides us with one of the great discussions of friendship. He distinguishes between what he believes to be genuine friendships and two other forms: one based on mutual usefulness, the other on pleasure. These two forms only last for as long as there is utility and pleasure involved, whereas genuine friendship does not dissolve. It takes place between good men: 'each alike wish good for the other qua good, and they are good in themselves'. Aristotle continues, 'And it is those who desire the good of their friends for the friends’ sake that are most truly friends, because each loves the other for what he is, and not for any incidental quality' (Aristotle 1976: 263). This also entails appropriate self-concern.

Exhibit 1: Aristotle on friendship

Friendship... is a kind of virtue, or implies virtue, and it is also most necessary for living. Nobody would choose to live without friends even if he had all the other good things.... There are, however, not a few divergent views about friendship. Some hold that it is a matter of similarity: that our friends are those who are like ourselves... Others take the contrary view.... 

There are three kinds of friendship....

Friendship based on utility. Utility is an impermanent things: it changes according to circumstances. So with the disappearance of the ground for friendship, the friendship also breaks up, because that was what kept it alive. Friendships of this kind seem to occur most frequently between the elderly (because at their age what they want is not pleasure but utility) and those in middle or early life who are pursuing their own advantage. Such persons do not spend much time together, because sometimes they do not even like one another, and therefore feel no need of such an association unless they are mutually useful. For they take pleasure in each other’s company only in so far as they have hopes of advantage from it. Friendships with foreigners are generally included in this class.

Friendship based on pleasure. Friendship between the young is thought to be grounded on pleasure, because the lives of the young are regulated by their feelings, and their chief interest is in their own pleasure and the opportunity of the moment. With advancing years, however, their tastes change too, so that they are quick to make and to break friendships; because their affection changes just as the things that please them do and this sort of pleasure changes rapidly. Also the young are apt to fall in love, for erotic friendship is for the most part swayed by the feelings and based on pleasure. That is why they fall in and out of friendship quickly, changing their attitude often within the same day. But the young do like to spend the day and live together, because that is how they realize the object of their friendship.

Perfect friendship is based on goodness. Only the friendship of those who are good, and similar in their goodness, is perfect. For these people each alike wish good for the other qua good, and they are good in themselves. And it is those who desire the good of their friends for the friends’ sake that are most truly friends, because each loves the other for what he is, and not for any incidental quality. Accordingly the friendship of such men lasts so long as they remain good; and goodness is an enduring quality. Also each party is good both absolutely and for his friend, since the good are both good absolutely and useful to each other. Similarly they please one another too; for the good are pleasing both absolutely and to each other; because everyone is pleased with his own conduct and conduct that resembles it, and the conduct of good men is the same or similar. Friendship of this kind is permanent, reasonably enough; because in it are united all the attributes that friends ought to possess. For all friendship has as its object something good or pleasant — either absolutely or relatively to the person who feels the affection — and is based on some similarity between the parties. But in this friendship all the qualities that we have mentioned belong to the friends themselves; because in it there is similarity, etc.; and what is absolutely good is also absolutely pleasant; and these are the most lovable qualities. Therefore it is between good men that both love and friendship are chiefly found and in the highest form.

That such friendships are rare is natural, because men of this kind are few. And in addition they need time and intimacy; for as the saying goes, you cannot get to know each other until you have eaten the proverbial quantity of salt together. Nor can one man accept another, or the two become friends, until each has proved to the other that he is worthy of love, and so won his trust. Those who are quick to make friendly advances to each other have the desire to be friends, but they are not unless they are worthy of love and know it. The wish for friendship develops rapidly, but friendship does not.

Aristotle The Nichomachean Ethics, 1155a3, 1156a16-1156b23 

Suzanne Stern-Gillet suggests that friendships of utility and pleasure can be seen as processes, whereas friendships of virtue are activities. Such activities are central to living the good life. It is only friendship based on virtue that allows a relationship between whole persons.

To perceive a friend , therefore, is necessarily in a manner to perceive oneself, and to know a friend is in a manner to know oneself. The excellent person is related to his friend in the same way as he is related to himself, since a friend is another himself.

As Ray Pahl (2000: 22) states in relation to Aristotle, virtuous friends 'enlarge and extend each other's moral experience'. He continues, ' the friends are bound together, as they recognize each other's moral excellence. Each can be said to provide a mirror in which the other may see himself'. In this we love the other person for their own sake not just for what they are or what they can offer, and we put the interests of the other before our own. We can also see that we are separate and different from each other. We know ourselves and the other. The moral excellence of friendship, thus, 'involves a high level of development and expression of the altruistic emotions of sympathy, concern and care - a deep caring for and identification with the good of another from whom one clearly knows oneself to be clearly other' (Blum 1980: 71).
Friendship of this kind necessarily involves conversations about well-being and of what might be involved in living the good life. Through networks of friends, Aristotle seems to be arguing, we can begin to develop a shared idea of the good and to pursue it. Friendship, in this sense, involves sharing in a common project: to create and sustain the life of a community, 'a sharing incorporated in the immediacy of an individual's particular friendships' (MacIntyre 1985: 156).
Arguably, the other major classical treatment of friendship was Cicero's Laelius de Amicitia. Cicero (106-43 BC) was a Roman statesman and orator whose writings on ethics, the philosophy of religion and natural law have been influential. His belief in the notion of human rights and the brotherhood of man became important reference points. As with Aristotle, Cicero believed that true friendship was only possible between good men. This friendship, based on virtue, does offer material benefits, but it does not seek them. All human beings, Cicero concluded, are bonded together, along with the gods, in a community of shared reason. But in the real world, friendship is subject to all sorts of pressures.