The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. - Elizabeth Foley
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? - George Eliot
Friendship is a sheltering tree. - Samuel Coleridge
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
How does one keep from "growing old inside"? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people…. Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are indispensable. - Robert McAfee Brown
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Mark Twain
"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed." Kahlil Gibran quotes
A friend is one before whom I may think aloud. - Ralph Waldo Emerson