A
newspaper in England gave a reward for the best definition of a friend.
Thousands answered, and the winning entry was this: "A FRIEND IS ONE THAT
COMES WHEN EVERYONE ELSE GOES."
You know you have a wisely chosen a friend when you have a friend who encourages you!
"Real friendship is shown in the time of trouble, prosperity is full of friends." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Encouragement is a powerful life-changing force.
A banker
always tossed a coin in the cup of a legless beggar who sat on the street
outside the bank. But unlike most people, the banker would always insist on
getting one of the pencils the man had beside him. “You are a merchant,” the
banker would say, “and I always expect to receive good value from merchants I
do business with.” One day the legless man was not on the sidewalk.
Time passed and the banker forgot about him, until he walked into a public building and there in the concessions stand sat the former beggar. He was obviously the owner of his own small business now.
“I have always hoped you might come by someday,” the man said. “You are largely responsible for me being here. You kept telling me that I was a ‘merchant.’ I started thinking of myself that way, instead of a beggar receiving gifts. I started selling pencils—lots of them. You gave me self-respect. You caused me to look at myself differently.” —Quoted by Randy Stanford
Do you have a friend who comes in when others are going away?
Are you a friend like that?
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