Friendship

QUOTOGRAPHY

http://www.myperspectiveblog.com/2011/05/quotography-friendship.html

asks us to use a quote about friendship.

The words in blue are from Eleanor Rossevelt.



FRIENDSHIP

Friendship with oneself is all important;

Enjoy your you-ness every single day.

Be constantly aware

Of the great world that you share,

With that person who's inside you all the way.

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Friendship with some others is exciting;

When one's liked it's the icing on the cake.

But, without self-love, you'll find

No real warmth inside your mind,

So you cannot give, but only merely take.

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Forgive yourself for all your small shortcomings;

Don't be hard on someone who should mean so much.

Then you'll find you can forgive

Other folk with whom you live

And you can give the world a tender touch.

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A baby loves itself, it's quite self-centred;

It's the centre of its little universe;

Then it learns to love one other,

Its own adoring Mother.

Loving others is a task we must rehearse.

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Light a little flame of liking in your own mind,

Then let it shine on others every day.

Friendship's one of life's great pleasures,

Let's dispense it in large measures.

A friendship with ourselves shows us the way.

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POOR PEWTER PIG!

Why is it always pigs they choose to store their money in?

Why is it only pigs that have a slit cut in their skin?

Why don't they choose an elephant, a monkey or a cat?

No! Don't tell me it's because a pig is always fat!

Don't add insult to injury! A hippo's 'porky' too!

But I've never seen a Hippo Bank in all my life! Have you?

A whale is round and blubbery and could hold a lot of cents,

But a Whale Bank? Never! Never! It doesn't make much sense!

They try to say they trust me with their items of small change,

But why don't they trust the others? I find it very strange.

I don't mind being an ornament, an item of great beauty,

But it does upset me rather when I'm put on fiscal duty!

The coins weigh heavily inside; I sometimes get the colic;

Those heavy pennies weigh me down, too cumbersome to frolic!

As you see, I look despondent, but no-one cares a fig.

When someone created a money-box, why did they pick poor Pig?

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