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Adminstrative Professionals Day Cards For Administrative Professional Friends

2008-04-18T00:40:00.000-07:00

Administrative Professionals Day is just around the bend and I wish all my administrative professional friends the very best wishes of this day. Administrative professionals are friends of the company who stand up in terms of crisis and also lend a helpful hand when the going is not so tough. They make sure that the cogs of the company are well lubricated. They prevent your desk from looking like a dumping ground. So you'd better be thankful these friends and appreciate them in a suitable way. Say thank you in a way that makes them feel special. They deserve the adulation.

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Passover Cards - Friend Comments

2008-04-15T23:21:00.000-07:00

Hey friends! Its Passover time! Passover is a festival of the Jews and if you are lucky enough to have a Jewish friend, you are in for a great time, with great food and drinks. Just the other day, Hannah, my Jewish friend, told me about the Passover Seder plate and the Passover Seder meal. They have 6 courses in the meal and each signifies something intrinsic to their religious and cultural history. The Passover plate reminds them of their ancestors and their tryst with slavery at the hands of the Israelites.

If you are one of the unlucky people who have drifted apart from your friend due to the hectic lives that you are being forced to lead, grieve not. Wish your friends and family with these amazing Passover greeting cards. These Passover cards can carry your message in a way that will definitely cheer your friend up who must be missing your company too...

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Mothers Day Cards - Friendly Mom Comments

2008-04-08T05:43:00.000-07:00

Mothers Day is around the corner and I'm sure you guys are gearing up to celebrate Mothers Day in your own, unique way. My mom has always been my best friend and has stood by me through the dark and purple patches. When i made mistakes despite being warned by her, she never forced the guilt down my throat by saying "I told you so". She let bygones be bygones and taught me to learn from mistakes.

A mom is the best friend a child can have. Moms are more close to their daughters but many men are also close friends with their mom too. I can trust her with my innermost secret. She listens to me with a lot of patience and then advises something that I can follow easily. No preachy statements, no excessive expectations.

Wish your friendly mom a very happy Mothers Day and reach out your warm, touchy messages to make her feel loved. If you are staying away from her, click on these wonderful Mothers Day ecards and extent your greetings.

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Friendship Flash Cards - Friendly Love Comments

2008-04-08T00:00:00.000-07:00

Hi friends! I'm back after a long lay-off. I'm really sorry I couldn't get in touch with you guys earlier.

Keeping in touch is fast becoming a persistent problem for people around the world. Most of us don't have the time to reach out to our dear friends due to the hectic and erratic schedules we follow. This is where the internet proves to be a boon. If you cannot make that call, send across funny cards and funny flash cards to make your friend smile. Send across friendship ecards and friendship greeting cards to tell them you care and feel for them. Send them miss you cards if they are constantly on your minds but unfortunately not in your sight.

If you can reach out to them when everyone seems to be minding their own business, I'm sure they will count it as a great gesture from you.

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Womens Day Celebration -- International Women's Day Wishes

2008-03-06T21:15:00.000-08:00

Hi folks! With International Women's Day just a day away, I can feel the spirit of celebrating women's achievements is at the zenith. Winding back in history, it reminds us of the year 1908, when 15,000 women, marched through New York City with demands for shorter working hours, better pay and women's voting right.

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Here are some really wonderful Friendship Flash cards that you can try out to reach out to your friends with your inspirational messages to encourage them in framing a better world. Exactly a hundred years later, the significance of Women's Day is honored through it's 2008 global theme -- 'Shaping Progress', through investing in women and girls. The theme of International Women's Day 2008 is going to document their struggle for betterment.

Check out these Womens Day thumb images. Click on each of these thumb images and get yourself redirected to a unique Womens Day card page. Find what's offered there for you!!!

Your Friendship... FREE!
A fun way to tell her that the friendship you share is priceless!
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Roses... To Say!
Sometimes we feel it inside, but don't say it aloud. On Women's Day tell your bud she is a blessing!
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A Friendship Poem...
On special days a little mush feels good! On Women's Day reach out to your friend with a poem your gal pal will feel great to read.
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Today Is Your Day...
Wish your gal pals a groovy day! You can also use this card to invite your pals to a girl's night out!
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Cool Friendship!
You got a friend who makes any hour a happy hour! Send her a wish that's a perfect blend of style and substance!
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Coffee With Friends!
A hot cuppa and a warm wish for your friend!
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Beautiful... Inside Out!
Tell your friend she is as beautiful inside as out and you admire her for it!
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A Complete Woman!
Sometimes we come across someone who fills us with wonder at their spirit and abilities. If you have a friend like that, don't forget to show your appreciation!
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Stressed Becomes Desserts!
For your friend who helps you look at everything in the right perspective!
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Everything Has A Price Tag!
Thank goodness there's no such thing on Friendship! Tell your friend how precious the friendship you share is to you!
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Here's To Us!
Share a smile and revel in the joy of friendship on Women's Day!
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Tickled Pink!
Tell your favorite gal pal, you are tickled pink to have her as your friend!
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Sole Friend!
Will be a perfect fit for your good friend!
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Great Gal And Pal!
For your friend who's a great gal and a great pal too!
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Best Friends Day Virtual Greetings

2007-05-22T22:50:00.000-07:00

Being surrounded by friends is reason enough to celebrate; and with a best friend around, you can well have a blast ! More so, when a day is set aside to celebrate the wonderful bond you share. It’s time for big time bonding. So on Best Friends Day, settle for nothing less than an uninterrupted period of quality time with your best friend. Let him/ her know just how special he/ she is in your life on Best Friends Day.

A best friend is that wonderful being whom you can trust blindly, whom you can count on in every way, who will never let you down and who will never turn your back on you no matter what comes by. Your best friend will know exactly how to drive away your blues and bring the much-needed pep. So, take up Best Friends Day to do just the thing your best bud would love to do ! Fill up your Best Friends Day with lots of fun activities.

If your best friend is the fun-loving kind, go out and have fun together at the favorite food-joint or party-zone. Have your fling with good grub, funky beats and a great company. Set the right rhythm for your friendship on Best Friends Day and let it rock. If your best friend has the ear for music and a heart headed for groovy fun, he/ she is sure going to love this nifty Best Friends Day celebration. One good idea for an A-one Best Friends Day celebration is to hold a barbecue lunch or dinner with your best friend. Now mark it—this zesty fun activity will never let you down and is sure to give your Best Friends Day that perfect sizzle.

It's Best Friends Day ! Reach out to your coolest pal/ hottest gal with our fun and cute Best Friends Day ecards. Say how much he/ she means to you... thank him/ her for always being ready to erase your frowns and for also being your constant support system. Surprise your friend with your warmest wish and make this Best Friends Day a truly special one for him/ her.

A True Friend For Me Is You !
Bring on the smiles of your best friend with this heartfelt ecard.
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Pix Of You And Me !
Make your friend go LOL with this fun-to-the-max Best Friends Day wish.
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Your Friendship Is Like Chocolate !
Wish your best buddy on Best Friends Day with this cool and sweet ecard.
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Happy Best Friends Day To You !
Send this cute ecard to wish your dearest buddy on Best Friends Day.
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Your Friendship Is Special To Me !
Reconnect with an old friend on Best Friends day with this elegant ecard.
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A Rose For You...
Make your best friend feel extra special with this warm and beautiful ecard.
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Your Friendship Is Precious To Me !
Tell your best friend how special he/ she is to you with a beautiful yellow rose.
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Beauty Of Your Friendship !
Send this warm and bright ecard to thank your best friend for everything he/ she does for you.
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You Are Like A Rose...
Spell out what you really feel about your best friend with this warm and beautiful ecard.
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Your Friendship Brightens My Days !
Bring on the smiles of your best friend with this warm and cute ecard.
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Sorry Flash Cards For Your Friends

2007-05-02T23:27:00.000-07:00

We often hurt our friends, family, sweetheart, spouse, colleagues or loved ones with our hasty words or rash actions. Sometimes we fall victim to our mood either in our workplace or when we are with our friends. We unknowingly hurt many people amidst us by doing things which ,might not have pleased some of our friends . However as they say " To err in human.. To Forgive is divine "Send your heartfelt apologies to your dear ones from our collection of warm 'Sorry' greeting cards... A Sorry at the right time can bridge many misunderstanding and prevent bitterness between the best of our friends . So don't wait for time and hope things will heal themselves . Pick up one of these sorry Ecards and say that your friends deserve an apology from us and tell them how sorry you are for having hurt them

Erase The Hurt...
Say 'Sorry' to your beloved/ friend/ loved one with this touching sorry ecard.
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Really Really Sorry !
Apologize to your friend/ dear one with this cute 'Sorry' ecard.
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'Sorry' For My Actions !
Send your apology to your friend/ loved one for your wrong act.
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Forgive Me...
Say how you regret for your act to someone really close to you.
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I Aplogise !.
Send this 'Sorry' Flash card to your friend/ family member whose feelings have been hurt.
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I Feel Sorry...
A cute 'Sorry' wish to bring smile back to your near one's face.
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Wish I Could Undo The Hurt...
A heartfelt 'sorry' message... For your friend/ someone close.
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Didn't Mean To Hurt You !
A heartfelt Friendship ecard to apologize to your friend/ best buddy/ loved one.
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Wishes To Your Graduating Friends

2007-04-30T02:09:00.000-07:00

Graduation is the action of receiving or conferring an academic degree or the associated ceremony. The date of event is often called degree day. The event itself is also called commencement, convocation or invocation. In the United States and Canada, it is also used to refer to the advancement from a primary or secondary school level. Many colleges have different traditions associated with the graduation ceremony, the best-known probably being throwing mortarboards in the air.

At many large U. S. institutions, where many hundreds of degrees are being granted at once, the main ceremony (in the sports stadium or other large venue) is followed by smaller ceremonies at sites around campus where faculty of each department distribute diplomas to their graduates. Another means of handling very large numbers of graduates is to have several ceremonies, divided by field of study, at a central site over the course of a weekend instead of one single ceremony. The final problem that arises is the large number of family members / guests that each graduating student wants to attend. Universities try to circumvent this by allocating a specified number of graduation tickets to each student that will be graduating. Students can then buy/sell/trade these tickets amongst each other via sites like www.graduationtickets.com or through their school's online forums, message boards, etc. Due to their nature, these tickets are often departed with at a premium depending on the level of competition.

In any case, typically each candidate is given a diploma by an academic administrator or official such as the dean or department head. It is also common for graduates not to receive their actual diploma at the ceremony but instead a certificate indicating that they participated in the ceremony or a booklet to hold the diploma in. At the high school level, this allows teachers to withhold diplomas from students who are unruly during the ceremony; at the college level, this allows students who need an extra quarter or semester to participate in the official ceremony with their classmates.

At most colleges and universities in the U. S., the faculty technically will recommend that each candidate be given a degree, which is then formally conferred by the president or other institutional official. Typically, this is accomplished by a pair of short set speeches by a senior academic official and a senior institutional official: "Mr. President, on behalf of the faculty of Letters and Science, I hereby declare that these candidates have met all the requirements for the degree of ... and request that such degree be conferred upon them." "Under the authority vested in me by the State of Iowa and the Trustees of Podunk College, I hereby confer upon these candidates the degree of ..."

Congrats on Graduation Ecards

2007-04-30T02:08:00.000-07:00

Your son/ daughter/ friend/ loved one is now a graduate ! Pat him/ her on the back and send your heartiest wishes for a great future ahead with our warm and wonderful Graduation Congratulations ecards. Appreciate your loved one for this really big achievement with these cute and heartfelt ecards and make his/ her Graduation a truly special one.

Your Hard Work Has Blossomed !
Reach out to the new grads you know with this warm and beautiful congrats graduation ecard.
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Reach For The Stars Graduate!
Send this cute ecard to appreciate and encourage your friend/ bro/ sis/ loved one who has graduated.
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Congrats To You !
Say congratulations to all the proud grads you know with this cool and cute graduation ecard.
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May Your Dreams Come True !
Congratulate and encourage all your dear ones who have graduated with this beautiful ecard.
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Congrats On Graduating !
Appreciate the hard work of your friend/ fellow grad/ bro with this cool graduation ecard.
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Every Day Is Yours !
Make your daughter/ student/ friend feel special on her Graduation with this warm and inspiring wish.
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Certificate For The Coolest Grad !
Congratulate a friend/ loved one who has graduated with this cool and cute ecard.
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You Have It In You !
Congratulate your friend/ son/ daughter/ bro/ sis/ dear one on graduating with this cool and cute graduation ecard.
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Soar High !
Send this ecard to congratulate your son/ daughter/ student who has graduated and to inspire him/ her to move on.
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Scribe Success And Happiness !
Reach out to all the new grads you know with this warm and inspiring ecard.
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Applause On Graduating !
A warm and beautiful ecard to congratulate a new graduate on his/ her success.
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Congratulations And Happy Graduation !
Congratulate a new grad for his/ her hard-earned Graduation with this cute ecard.
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Mothers as Friends Cards For Mothers Day

2007-04-27T22:17:00.000-07:00

Mother can be a great Friend . Once you communicate and get talking to mom you will discover a whole new mom that acts more as a a friend to you. Mothers day this year is on 13thMay,2007 Send these Mother's day cards to your mom and tell her how much you appreciate her since she's more of a friend to you. And Wish her a Great and Happy Mother's day

A Great Friend... A Wonderful Mother !
A warm egreeting to make your dear friend really special this Mother's Day.
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I've Got A To-Do List For U...
Send this fun-filled to-do list to your friend and make her feel simply relaxed.
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As A Mother And My Friend...
Reach out to someone, who makes this world a brighter and happier place with this elegant ecard.
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You Are What A Perfect Woman Should Be !
On Mother's Day, wish a wonderful friend with this warm 'n beautiful ecard.
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Our Friendship Has Grown...
Send this beautiful ecard to an old girl pal on Mother's Day.
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It's Amazing Mom..Your Moe of My Friend..
Wish someone special on Mother's Day with this beautiful Mother's day ecard.
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Know What I Cherish ?
With this cute mom day ecard touch your friend's heart and wish her warmly on Mother's Day.
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Thanks For All The Warmth And Smiles Mom...
A warm ecard to say 'Thank You' to a wonderful friend and a loving mother.
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Ways of Starting a Friendship Force Club

2007-04-24T04:47:00.000-07:00

Friendship Force International is a group that was formed to help build a global community. The idea is to have people traveling throughout the world and staying with a family in another country. This helps them to develop an understanding of other cultures and forms friendships that span the globe. Friendship Force International works through these exchanges to build global goodwill. The basis of Friendship Force International is community based clubs. Becoming involved with a Friendship Force club is more than a hobby, it is a chance to change the world.

Friendship Force International has its main headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. It was founded in 1977 by Wayne Smith, the first president of the organization. Friendship Force International is comprised of almost half a million volunteers called ambassadors and hosts. Ambassadors are the people who stay with a family, the hosts, in a different part of the world from where they live. The organization is made up of individual Friendship Force clubs that arrange hosts and ambassadors from their community to take part in exchanges. The clubs also help each ambassador and host to arrange travel plans. Each ambassador is responsible for their expenses, as are the hosts.

The organization is non-profit and is solely maintained through fees, grants and donations. The work done by Friendship Force international has been recognized by a 1992 nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize. The commitment to a global community is still as strong as it was at the beginning. This is simply an exchange program where the goal is for people around the world to make and build lasting friendships. It is the ultimate goal that this network of friendships helps to promote world peace and tolerance.

A person interested in starting a Friendship Force club can be located any where in the world. Clubs are required to follow the official rules and regulations of Friendship Force International. At the main headquarters in Georgia there are staff members who are dedicated to helping new clubs start up. The whole process can be done by working with these staff members.

The first step is finding people who would be interested in joining the club. The person organizing the club should explain about Friendship Force International, including the goals and how the organization is run. A club needs about 50 to 100 people that are interested in becoming hosts or ambassadors. Friendship Force club’s welcome members of all races, ethnicities and ages. There is no discrimination in Friendship Force international. All members are intern\viewed before being excepting into the club, though. This is a way to make sure that clue members will be dedicated to the goal and mission of creating a global community.

Once the members have been found, 5 to 10 people will be needed to form the leadership comity. The leadership comity includes the president, vice president, secretary and treasurer. Officers serve a 1 or 2 year term. After the initial term members then vote on new officers.

The Georgia office will then send paperwork that needs to be filled out and submitted to make the club official. Clubs have fees of $10 per member or $15 per family. The fees are gathered by the club and then sent to Georgia with the paperwork. Once a club has been officially recognized they can begin their exchanges and hosting.

To be successful a club should have 100 or more members. The first inbound exchange, or hosting, can be done after a club has 50 members. After that the outbound exchanges, where someone from the club goes to stay with a family, can begin.

Friendship Force clubs are sometimes hard to form. Through help from the headquarters in Georgia, a person should be able to create a diverse and successful club. Friendship Force International is all about making new friends and what better way than to get involved in a local Friendship Force club.

Lets be Friends Flash Cards

2007-04-19T23:15:00.000-07:00

Being able to keep Friendship is not easy . Not everyone has the abilty to make friends. But for those of you who find themselves increasingly tongue tied . take heart! Its not difficult as it seems to be . If You have met someone whom you liked and You wanna be friends with that person, Just manage to get hold of their email Id and send these charming "Wanna be Friends" Flash Greeting Cards.

Friendship Proposal !
A cute friendship interactive card to propose friendship.
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Friendship Is A Beautiful Journey !
A warm friendship flash message just perfect to be sent to a new friend.
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I've Found A Friend... In You !
A warm and sunny flash card that'll help your friendship blossom !
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A Perfect Name To A Beautiful Bond !
Give a wonderful name to the bond you share with someone special with this Friendship ecard.
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I Wanna Be Your Friend...
A special friendship band that's sure to get your message across !
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Sent A Friend Request !
A cool and fun ecard for your social networking friend/ fellow blogger whom you want to add as a pal.
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What Experts Say About Friendships

2007-04-19T23:08:00.000-07:00

The Meaning of Friendship

The concept of friendship has been discussed for thousands of years. Below are some links to academic articles and sources which attempt to bring together and summarise the definitions of friendship.

What The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy says About Friendship

"Friendship, as understood here, is a distinctively personal relationship that is grounded in a concern on the part of each friend for the welfare of the other, for the other's sake, and that involves some degree of intimacy. As such, friendship is undoubtedly central to our lives, in part because the special concern we have for our friends must have a place within a broader set of concerns, including moral concerns, and in part because our friends can help shape who we are as persons. Given this centrality, important questions arise concerning the justification of friendship and, in this context, whether it is permissible to “trade up” when someone new comes along, as well as concerning the possibility of reconciling the demands of friendship with the demands of morality in cases in which the two seem to conflict." [read entire article]

Helm, Bennett (2005) Friendship, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

the encyclopaedia of informal education

"When approaching the notion of friendship, our first problem is, as Graham Allan (1996: 85) has commented, that there is a lack of firmly agreed and socially acknowledged criteria for what makes a person a friend. In one setting we may describe someone as a friend, in another the label may seem less appropriate. We may have a very thin understanding of what friendship entails. For example, Bellah et. al. (1996: 115), drawing upon Aristotle, suggest that the traditional idea of friendship has three components: 'Friends must enjoy each other's company, they must be useful to one another, and they must share a common commitment to the good'. In contemporary western societies, it is suggested, we tend to define friendship in terms of the first component, and find the notion of utility a difficult to place within friendship." [read entire article]

Doyle, M. E. and Smith, M. K. (2002) Friendship: Theory and Experience, the encyclopaedia of informal education

Wikipedia Online Definition of Friendship

"Friendship is a type of interpersonal relationship that is found among humans and among animals with rich intelligence, such as the higher mammals and some birds. Cross-species friendships are common between humans and domestic animals. Less common but still of note are friendships between a non-human animal and another animal of a different species, such as a dog and cat. Individuals in a friendship relationship will generally welcome each other's company and often exhibit mutually helping behavior. Friendship is generally considered to be a closer personal relationship than an acquaintanceship, although there a range of 'degrees of intimacy' in both friends and acquaintances. For most people, there is an overlap between friends and acquaintances."

Cicero

"6. Now friendship may be thus defined: a complete accord on all subjects human and divine, joined with mutual goodwill and affection. And with the exception of wisdom, I am inclined to think nothing better than this has been given to man by the immortal gods. There are people who give the palm to riches or to good health, or to power and office, many even to sensual pleasures. This last is the ideal of brute beasts; and of the others we may say that they are frail and uncertain, and depend less on our own prudence than on the caprice of fortune. Then there are those who find the "chief good" in virtue. Well, that is a noble doctrine. But the very virtue they talk of is the parent and preserver of friendship, and without it friendship cannot possibly exist." [read entire article]

Cicero, M.T. On Friendship (De Amicitia), Translated by E. S. Shuckburgh, About.com

Aristotle

"[Aristotles] taxonomy begins with the premise that there are three main reasons why one person might like someone else. (The verb, “philein,” which is cognate to the noun “philia,” can sometimes be translated “like” or even “love”—though in other cases philia involves very little in the way of feeling.) One might like someone because he is good, or because he is useful, or because he is pleasant. And so there are three bases for friendships, depending on which of these qualities binds friends together. When two individuals recognize that the other person is someone of good character, and they spend time with each other, engaged in activities that exercise their virtues, then they form one kind of friendship. If they are equally virtuous, their friendship is perfect. If, however, there is a large gap in their moral development (as between a parent and a small child, or between a husband and a wife), then although their relationship may be based on the other person's good character, it will be imperfect precisely because of their inequality.." [read entire article]

Kraut, Richard Aristotle's Ethics, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2005 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.),

Emerson

"Friendship may be said to require natures so rare and costly, each so well tempered and so happily adapted, and withal so circumstanced, (for even in that particular, a poet says, love demands that the parties be altogether paired,) that its satisfaction can very seldom be assured. It cannot subsist in its perfection, say some of those who are learned in this warm lore of the heart, betwixt more than two. I am not quite so strict in my terms, perhaps because I have never known so high a fellowship as others. I please my imagination more with a circle of godlike men and women variously related to each other, and between whom subsists a lofty intelligence. But I find this law of one to one peremptory for conversation, which is the practice and consummation of friendship. Do not mix waters too much. The best mix as ill as good and bad. You shall have very useful and cheering discourse at several times with two several men, but let all three of you come together, and you shall not have one new and hearty word. Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort." [read entire article]

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, ESSAY VI Friendship, Ralph Waldo Emerson Texts, http://www.emersoncentral.com/

The Meaning of True Friends

2007-04-19T23:05:00.000-07:00

True Friends
by Kristie-Lyn Wightman

People today, in all this new world technology and thinking, have lost sight of what a true friendship is. So, in sprit of my best friend Tellie, I thought I would help the world out a little and explain what real, true friends are.

1. Friends don't have to be exactly the same. Friends have similarities but they also have their differences. They key to opening up the world of friendship is not only to expand on similarities but to accept each other's faults. Because you can't ever judge your friend.

2. Friends have to argue! No one likes to but it is necessary to be healthy. Cause if you agree on everything, either the government has expanded cloning subjects or someone isn't being true and is trying a little too hard.

3. You have to be comfortable together or else you just aren't going to click. If you feel edgy around the person then something isn't quite right.

4. Friends love unconditionally. They have there little angry moments but what's done is done and all is forgive and forget. Why let something that happened in the past ruin what happiness you could have in the future?

5. Believe in love at first sight because there is the equivalent in friendship. Some people think that you have to know someone really well to become good friends. Trust me, it's not true. If the first time you really spend time together you talk for 25 hours straight until 4:30 in the morning about some topic you thought no one else in the world understood, hun, that's real love at first sight.

These are only a few of the basics. Just remember, friends are forever. But only if you keep it that way. Don't diss your buds, love them instead. And when they drive you nuts, love them that much more for being just a little bit different and maybe just a little bit quirky!

We All Need Friends In Life

2007-04-19T23:02:00.000-07:00

Friends are people who care
Who don't cry or shout when you ask them to share

Who can share fun times without getting mad
Who try to comfort you when you're sad

Who share secrets and never tell
Who make sure you're feeling well

Who can have a fun time and share their games
Who never let you take the blame

Friends are people who you need,
Who don't try to make you do something wrong

Who will stay friends long
Yes, we all need friends.

Submitted by: Brenda

http://www.321greetings.com/weallneedfriends.htm

welcome to Friendship flash cards

2007-04-18T23:14:00.000-07:00

welcome to Friendship flash cards. here you can find all cards on Online Friendships, Best Friends,new Friends and Childhood Friends. You can also change the text in the cards, change the background image and customize it according to your look and feel .All Flash cards are free to send and receive