Silly Friday thing

[charliesmum]

Here is a picture Charlie made in school yesterday.

It is entitled 'Friendship'.




When I was younger, and feeling very lonely and unpopular, this quote about friendship made me feel sort of better:

Don't walk in front of me, I might not follow, don't walk behind me, I might not lead, just walk beside me and be my friend.

Yes, I know it's all sorts of smaltzy, but it helped.

What's your favorite friendship quote or, alternatively, do you have a picture that evokes friendship for you?

If so, share!

ETA: silverhill made me think of this. It's part of Kermit's speech to Doc Hopper.

. And... well, I've found a whole bunch of friends who have the same dream. And that makes us like a family. That's how I feel about you guys.

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[king-duncan.livejournal.com]

Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh!" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you."

— A.A. Milne

[zoepaleologa.livejournal.com]

"He was my friend, faithful and just to me"

This is Mark Anthony on Caesar in the Shakespearean oration, but that line, to me, says everything about what you give to a friend, and what you should expect from a friend.

Charlie's drawing is absolutely gorgeous and very warm.

[silverhill.livejournal.com]

My favorite quote (actually song lyric) on friendship:

"There's not a word yet / for old friends who've just met."
~ Gonzo

So true.

[crossbow1.livejournal.com]

I love that one.

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love that one. And now that song is in my head.

[nam-jai.livejournal.com]

That's a lovely picture!

Recently I've been on a Bruce Springsteen kick, and on my drive home from work last night, I was listening to a song of his that's about friendship: No Surrender (link takes you to lyrics with no annoying ads or pop-ups). I was remembering how my best friend Margie wrote the first two lines of that song on the back of her senior picture that she gave to me. Listening to it now, the song has such a different tone to me -- now I'm closer to the age Bruce was when he wrote the song (a few years older, in fact), and I get the wistfulness of it more than I did when I was 17. Especially since I'm still friends with Margie today, even though we don't see each other very often, living in different states as we are.

All that was longer than a quote or a picture, but it's what immediately sprung to my mind!

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

I don't know that I know that song, but I agree, those lyrics are very elequent.

And, yeah, makes more sense at 39 than 19. :)

[nam-jai.livejournal.com]

"No Surrender" wasn't one of the singles from Born in the U.S.A. (hence the reason I can enjoy it still, since it wasn't driven into the ground by radio overplay).

It was also one of two songs from that album that were sort of understood to be directed to Steve Van Vandt, who at the time was leaving Bruce's band to strike out on his own. They had been friends and working together since they were teenagers. The other song (which is actually my favorite of the two) is Bobby Jean. Also not a radio-overplayed single. ;)

[crossbow1.livejournal.com]

I could only think of cynical ones, so I went on line and searched for an accurate one. Here it is:

"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us."
- Epicurus (341 - 270 BC)

SO true.

[jessii-6.livejournal.com]

there's a good saying that goes someting like friends are the family we choose
but to me, the concept of friendship is accociated to childhood memories and to a song from a cartoon that says 'friendship starts from a smile ...share your smile and it'll come back to you many times'