1. Friendship

2. "Friendship doubles your joys and divides your sorrows" Friendship "Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart" "A friend is someone who walks in when the whole world has walked out" “Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.” - Helen Keller

3. Friendship "Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with"- Mark Twain “Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.” -- Tennessee Williams “I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.” -- Virginia Woolf “The only way to have a friend is to be one.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson The language of friendship is not words but meanings. Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau

4. Wishing to be a friend is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. Aristotle

5. Friendship offers support Needs to be cultivated Can last a life time Can effect your life Requires reciprocity: A true friend or “a fair weather friend” Know when to compromise

6. Friends are the families we choose for ourselves

7. How do you choose your friends?