*yenkoff and =Dragonfly113, thank you for your friendship. No matter what the future holds for us, I shall always remember our friendship.

My photo and Painter IX.5.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together
- Woodrow Wilson

A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde

Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend
Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end.
- John Boyle O'Reilly

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.
- Anaïs Nin

"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
- Louisa May Alcott

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
- Marcel Proust

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have known this one for many, many years and it is, by far, my most favorite quote about friendship:

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, adapted