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QUOTES

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

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."- Anais Nin

"My friends are my estate."- Emily Dickinson

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."

"A friend is one who walks in when others walk out" -Walter Winchell

"A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else." - Len Wein - Sent by Paulo Louro

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words." - Sent by Donna Roberts

"A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself." - Sent by Lysha

"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.Walk beside me and be my friend." - Albert Camus (also attributed to Maimonidies). Sent by clovers

"A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more."- Sent by Jasmine Fitzwilliam
"Everyone is a friend, until they prove otherwise."- sent by Steve

"Every person is a new door to a different world."- from movie "Six Degrees of Seperation" (thanks to Steve Famous Quotes)

"It takes a long time to grow an old friend." - by John Leonard (thanks to Steve Famous Quotes)

"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you." - Elbert Hubard
"I get by with a little help from my friends." - John Lennon

"Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up." - Bible: Ecclesiastes

"Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends." - Mary Catherwood

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival." - C. S. Lewis

"I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel." - Logan Pearsall Smith

"Friends are the most important ingredient in this recipe of life." - (sent by Dior Yamasaki)

"The better part of one's life consists of his friendships." - Abraham Lincoln, (sent by Heather Myers)

"The love of my life is the love between friends." - (sent by Jess)

"One's best friend is oneself." - (sent by Jess)

"A Friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you anyway!!!" - (sent by Heather Tallent)

"To be depressed is to be lonely; to have a friend is to be happy..." - Guido

"Strangers are just friends waiting to happen." - (sent by Steve Klaka)

"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

"Though our communication wanes at times of absence, I'm aware of a strength that emanates in the background." -Claudette Renner

"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

VIDEOS

the next link is a short video about a few thing a friend does.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZHmsVRshwU

MOVIES :)

the sisterhood of the traveling pants

Carmen, Tiby, Lena and Bridget are 4 friends that are facing their first summer appart form each other. Before this happens they found this pants that magically fits all four of them. They decide to share the pants. The pants circulate maong the four friends all summer long.

During summer each of the girls go through different experiences. Bridjet goes to a soccer camp in Baja where she falls in love with a soccer coach eric. Lena's off to Greece to visit her grandparents and also falls in love, but with a greek boy called Kostos, and her grandparents don´t agree with them hanging out together. Carmen, in another hand, is going to visit her father but she soon realizes that he has a new family and a soon-to-be wife and two older kids. Tibby is working at Wallman´s where ahe meets a kid named Bailey who have leukemia. Tibby and Bailey become friends and Bailey teaches her how to live her life to the fullness.

In this movie its interesting how friendship from four old friends remains and the pants are a constant element representing their friendship. It also has love content and many real sittuations many tean agers have to face during their lives.

Music!

Music is a great inspirating tool. It has great and different effects on people. Through music, people express their feelings and their way of thinking. One of the most played themes is friendship.

This is a link to a beautiful song in spanish about friendship, about sticking together, never saying godbye, about what is the importance of friends and its value.

http://www.mp3lyrics.org/b/bonka/hoy/

The next link is for a Miley Cyrus song called True Friend that has very interesting information about real friendship.

http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/h/hannah_montana/true_friend.html

a picture is worth a thousand words

FRIENDSHIP

A friend is a person who know you, who trust you, who likes you, a person with whom one is allied in a struggle, a person who supports you and sympathizes you. They cooperate with each other, are loyal, honest, etc. They understand each other, have similar tastes and enjoy activities togethe. Friends give advises to each other and wants the best for each other. Friendship needs frequently contact, it takes time and is riscky of being heart. It involves a degree of intimacy and a high level of trust, that is why you can get heart, when you love you sufferbecause you care, and if you care and love someone as your friend then it will deeply hurt when that friend let´s you down. Family are also friends.
Not every "friend" is good for you. You have to be carefull about who you trust as your friends because when you decide to consider him/her as your friend, vey important information about your self is given and your deeper feelings are revealed. There is a probability you end up hurt. Friends can also be just your friends because of interess, because they need something from you and may manipulate you. There are some important criteria to consider when deciding who your friends are:
1. getting to know each other.
2. Pay attention to the interests of your friend and how he behave when he/she isn´t getting anything in exchange by helping you.
3. Make him get into real friendship desitions. For example see if your friend sacrifies something of his/her real interest, for being there for you.