What is friendship?? Who are my friends??

Here are two of my best friends who I grew up with:

As for making friends...

I feel it's pretty simple to find them.  You just have to be open and speak up to them if they don't to you.   However, because it is so easy to make friends, just remember, it's hard to keep "good friends" and friends who will be there forever.  Trust is an element necessary in all relationships, even friendship.  It hurts when that trust is broken...it's hard to say if it can be rebuilt.  I have found many friends along my path.  Many memories have been made and will remain in thought.  However, there are only a few that I can look back on and smile about and those are the few that make me strong.  I believe I need to learn from those mistakes and discomforts.  Doing so would help make me a stronger and wiser person.

"It takes years to build up trust, and just seconds to destroy it."
"A true friend stabs you in the front." - Oscar Wilde
"A friendship that stops existing, was actually never there."

Here are some quotes on friendship that everyone should remember:

"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow ~ Don't walk behind me, I may not lead ~ Just walk beside me and be my friend."

"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"
-Abraham Lincoln

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

"Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same."

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
- Mother Teresa 

"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."
- Aristotle 

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

"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."
- Henry Ford 

"Happiness is time spent with a friend and looking foward to sharing time with them again."
- Lee Wilkinson 

"Only your real friends tell you when your face is dirty."
- Sicilian Proverb

"A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway."
- Jerome Cummings

"A good friend remembers what we were and sees what we can be."

"One loyal friend is better than ten thousand family members."

"A friend is someone who reaches out for your hand...and touches your heart."

"I always knew looking back on the tears would make me laugh.
But I never knew looking back on the laughs would make me cry."

"If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I would not follow,
I would be at the bottom to catch them when they fall."

"Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away - and leaves behind only silence." -- Pam Brown