Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Anais Nin
What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
I have enjoyed most particularly reading the correspondence between Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss. The genuine friendship, competitiveness and... →
Jessye Norman
I am deeply spiritual; I revel in those things that make for good - the things that we can do to shed a little light, to help place an oft-dissonant... →
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... →
Henri Nouwen
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... →
Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey.
Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.
Patrick O'Brian
Most people are enduring a marginalized isolation. One of the great obstacles to modern friendships is the 'religion of rush.' People are... →
John O'Donohue
Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.
Austin O'Malley