Loving Deeply & Being Deeply Loved...Lao Tzu

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
 
 --Lao Tzu

The Things We Need...Philip Pullman

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”

--Philip Pullman

Opening Your Heart...Kirstie Alley

“It's funny. No matter how hard you try, you can't close your heart forever. And the minute you open it up, you never know what's going to come in. But when it does, you just have to go for it! Because if you don't, there's no point in being here.”
 
--Kirstie Alley

How To Value Your Life...Toni Simone de Beauvoir

"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion."

— Simone de Beauvoir, author of "The Second Sex"

Be Real...Arthur Herzog

To fake it is to stand guard over emptiness.

--Arthur Herzog

The Value Of Friendship...H Clay Trumbull

Value friendship for what there is in it, not for what can be gotten out of it.
 

--H. Clay Trumbull

What Is A Friend...Aristotle

“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”


--Aristotle

Real Friends...B. Smith

"As we grow up, we realize it becomes less important to have more friends...and more important to have real ones." 

--B. Smith, Restaurateur, Author, Lifestyle Expert, Entrepreneur, Talk Show Host and Former Fashion Model

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A True Friend...William Penn

A true friend shares freely, advises wisely, assists willingly, encourages quickly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

Adapted from William Penn

The Inner Bond...Rumi

"Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words."

— Rumi

True Friendship Involves Action...

"... genuine friendship involves a shared sense of caring and concern, a desire to see one another grow and develop, and a hope for each other to succeed in all aspects of life. True friendship involves action: doing something for someone else while expecting nothing in return; sharing thoughts and feelings without fear of judgment or negative criticism."  

--Unknown

Source:  http://www.allaboutgod.com/true-friendship.htm

Friends

Side by side or miles apart, dear friends are always close to the heart.

Friendship and Love...Viola Davis

"...friendship and love can help us find our way."  

--Viola Davis, Award-Winning Actress

The speech you need to hear during Women’s History Month! #TBT✨ Viola Davis’s powerful “Best Actress” acceptance speech at the 2012 #CriticsChoiceAwards. @violadavis won for her performance as “Aibileen Clark” in “The Help.” #WomensHistoryMonth #CCMoments #ViolaDavis… pic.twitter.com/2igY8KdOwI

— Critics Choice Awards (@CriticsChoice) March 7, 2024

Real Friendship...Tahar Ben Jeloun

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl. 
--Tahar Ben Jelloun

Advice on Friendship...Socrates

“Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.”  --Socrates

True Friends...Nona

Be careful of the people you meet.  True friends are proven in time and through adversity.  --Nona

A Loving Silence...Rachel Naomi Remen

The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention.... A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.  -- Rachel Naomi Remen

The Most Beautiful Discovery...Elizabeth Foley

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.   -- Elizabeth Foley

A Real Friendship…Alice Walker

"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow." 

-- Alice Walker