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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and read more
A friendship can weather most things and thrive 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.
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for read more
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.
Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.
My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a read more
My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it read more
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean 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. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me read more
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of read more
One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
