WHAT IS FRIENDSHIP?

Friendship has no biological purpose, no economic status, no evolutionary meaning, but a new friend can reintroduce a woman to herself, allowing her to look at herself with a new pair of eyes and a different mindset. Flaws can be recast as strength, self-doubts lifted by acceptance.

Genuine friendship are a mirror reflecting back to us a flattering image of ourselves.

When a friend makes a mistake, the mistake remains a mistake but the friend is still a friend.

We never outgrow our need for friendship. Friends are an alternative source of the emotional nourishment we get from our families.

Human beings are social creatures. We flourish in the company of other human beings.

One chimpanzee cannot be a chimpanzee. A chimp needs other chimps in order to become what it was meant to be.

We need other people, and we need to be needed by other people, in order to be who we might be, who we yearn to be.

We are who we are. Only by letting people in life could one fulfill one's potential.

We need friendship and affection, as much as we need food and air, and we identify certain people as able to meet that need.

"The glory of friendship is not so much in the outstretched hand or in the kindly smile. It is in the spiritual inspiration that comes when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with her friendship." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Friends are people who know you at your worst and like you anyway, people in whose company you can be yourself.

FRIENDS ARE PEOPLE WHO CARE ABOUT YOU FOR WHO YOU ARE, NOT FOR WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR THEM. They worry about you when you're sick or depressed, and they rejoiced with you when you have something to celebrate.

THE TRUEST FRIEND is the person who can be genuinely happy for you when something good comes your way that may never happen to him. There is a kind of holiness in true friendship, because it does for us what organized religion tries to do to make sure that we are never alone when we desperately need to not be alone.

WHEN YOU AND I ARE TRULY ATTUNED TO EACH OTHER, GOD COMES DOWN AND FILLS THE SPACE BETWEEN US SO THAT WE ARE CONNECTED, NOT SEPARATED.