People's lives change. To keep all your old friends is like keeping all your old clothes -- pretty soon your closet is so jammed and everything so crushed you can't find anything to wear. Help these friends when they need you; bless the years and happy times when you meant a lot to each other, but try not to have the guilts if new people mean more to you now.
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Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, read more
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away. -George Eliot.
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are read more
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life.
Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life.
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy--for friendship's sake.
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy--for friendship's sake.
What a delight it is to make friends with someone you have
despised!
What a delight it is to make friends with someone you have
despised!
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. read more
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. Thanks to Maria Marquis -Katherine Mansfield.
