Our goodbyes to Jim and Susan was long. We promised to get together at a future date before parting company.
"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
--Marcel Proust
"Each day holds a surprise. But only if we expect it can we see, hear, or feel it when it comes to us. Let's not be afraid to receive each day's surprise, whether it comes to us as sorrow or as joy It will open a new place in our hearts, a place where we can welcome new friends and celebrate more fully our shared humanity."
--Henri Nouwen
"There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you."
--Paramahansa Yogananda
"True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing."
--Baltasar Gracian
"A friend is a gift you give yourself."
--Robert Louis Stevenson
Aloha -- Cathi
