Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. Silences make the real conversations between friends. One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about. There’s nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends – your own chosen family. “Friends are the family you choose.” – Jess C. Ralph Waldo EmersonĪll love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand. The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship. When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands. Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation. No matter how tired I am, I get dinner at least once a week with my girlfriends. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. Ray Bradburyįriendship marks a life even more deeply than love. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over. We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. “Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.” – Anna Deavre Smith We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. Henri Nouwenįriendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends. Anonymousįriendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. “Friendship is like a rainbow between two hearts.” – Anonymousįriendship isn’t about who you’ve known the longest, it’s about who walked in to your life, said ‘I’m here for you’ and PROVED it.
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