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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