Our grandchildren accept us for ourselves, without rebuke or effort to change us, as no one in our entire lives has ever done, not our parents, our siblings, spouses, friends---and hardly ever our own children. ~~Ruth Goode
• If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough. ~~Ann Landers
A Friendship can weather most things and thive in thin soil: but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often---just to save it from drying out completely. ~~George Sand
If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends-- you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, thats the time to hold your tongue. ~~~Alice Duer Miller