Friendship

Friendship is that by which the world is most blessed
and receives most good.
Jeremy Taylor


Blessed is he who is such a friend to humanity that he seeth good in every man for his own spirit shall be constantly enriched by the Christ spirit.


They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it.
Death cannot kill what never dies.
Nor
can spirits ever be divided that love and live
in the same divine principle –
the root and record of their friendship.
William Penn


Be slow in choosing a friend,
slower in changing.
                                 Benjamin Franklin


We are most of us very lonely in this world;
you who have any who love you,
cling to them and thank God.


It is a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong,
but it is a better thing to be loved of many friends.
Euripides



Love is the greatest of human affections and friendship the noblest and most refined
improvement of love.
Robert South


So long as we love, we serve.
And no man is useless while he has a friend.
Stevenson


Something like home that is not home is to be desired;
it is found in the house of a friend.
Sir W. Temple


Two are better than one;
because they have good reward for their labour. 
For if they fall, the one will
lift up his fellow;
but woe to him that is alone when he falleth;
for he hath not another to help him up.   
Ecclesiastes 4: 9-10


Friendship by its very nature consists in loving, rather than in being loved.  In other words, friendship consists in being a friend, not in having a friend.
      H. Clay Trumbull



A True Companion
“Do not press me to leave you or to turn back from following you!  Where you go, I will go.  Where you lodge, I will lodge.  Your people shall be my people and your God my God.  Where you die, I will die – there will I be buried.  May the Lord do thus and so to me, and more as well, if even death parts me from you!” 
  The Book of Ruth

“Anam Cara”… Celtic soul-mates
    In Celtic spiritual tradition, it is believed that the soul radiates all about the physical body, what some refer to as an aura.  When you connect with another person and become completely open and trusting with that individual, your two souls begin to flow together.  Should such a deep bond be formed, it is said you have found your Anam Cara or soul friend.
    Your Anam Cara always accepts you as you truly are, holding you in beauty and light.  In order to appreciate this relationship, you must first recognize your own inner light and beauty.  This is not always easy to do.  The Celts believed that forming an Anam Cara friendship would help you to awaken your awareness of your own nature and experience the joys of others.