Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When I lost my friends, it was because I had used the power of giving on them recklessly. I swept into their lives with my big fat checkbook, and I erased years of obstacles for them overnight - but sometimes, in the process, I also accidentally erased years of dignity.
I've dealt with losing close ones before, and I've been around friends that have lost friends at a young age. I think it's important to think about - not necessarily death, but about life and think about where you're going and how you want to be remembered and the legacy you want to leave.
Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
The value of friends has always been a natural thing. I prefer too many to too few.
I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends.
We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.
Some of the choicest blessings of my life have been the close friendships I have experienced over the years. Often, these friendships have been forged in the fires of shared experience.
We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
To see a friend who has suffered the loss of all things begin again with trust and love, gives us strength to continue on.
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