“True friends see who we really are, hear our words and the feelings behind them, hold us in the safe harbor of their embrace, and accept us as we are. Good friends mirror our best back to us, forgive us our worst, and believe we will evolve into wise, wacky, and wonderful old people. Dear friends give us their undivided attention, encourage us to laugh, and entice us into silliness. And we do the same for them. A true friend gives us the courage to be ourselves because he or she is with us always and in all ways. In the safety of such friendships, our hearts can fully open.” PeopleWayGivingBelieveHeartFeelingsFriendshipBehindsAttentionAcceptingLaughingWiseWonderfulWorstSafeMirrorsSafetyEmbraceForgivingDearEvolveGood FriendOld PeopleTrue FriendHarborsOur WordsDear FriendWackySillinessUndivided AttentionSafe Harbor Author:Sue Thoele
“Friendships offer good practice in accepting the transience of experience and the persistence of feeling.” FeelingsFriendshipAcceptingPracticeOffersPersistenceTransience Book:Epicurean Simplicity Source: Epicurean Simplicity
“To accept a favor from a friend is to confer one.” FriendshipAcceptingFavors Author:John Churton Collins
“If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.” IfsTwoHandsAsksFriendshipLosesAcceptingJudgingFriendsGainsCatholicSaintStrangerDisputesRequestHippoOne FriendTwo FriendsChristian Friends Author:Saint Augustine
“We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.” ThinkingLoveLifeInspirationalLooksHappinessPeaceFriendshipLove IsAcceptingLove YouAcceptancePlantTrue LoveGenerosityWeddingNurtureOur LoveGrandchildrenHippieNurturingPower Of LoveLove Is LikeThose We LoveSpiritual LovePeace LoveCupboardsGift Of LovePower And LoveHippiLove AcceptanceBeatles Peace Author:John Lennon
“We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.” InspirationalFriendshipAcceptingFavorsSecureThrive Author:Thucydides
“Life is a journey towards truth, we have something to learn from each other, and everybody ought to have a chance to make the journey. So for us, a community is just made up of anybody who accepts the rules of the game, everybody counts, everybody has a role to play, everybody deserves a chance and we all do better when we work together” LoveMadePlayTogetherHappinessLife IsGamesFriendshipCommunityChanceAcceptingFamilyRolesRelationshipJourneyOughtDeserveWorking TogetherLife Is A JourneyRules Of The Game Author:William J. Clinton
“Friends broaden our horizons. They serve as new models with whom we can identify. They allow us to be ourselves-and accept us that way. They enhance our self-esteem because they think we're okay, because we matter to them. And because they matter to us-for various reasons, at various levels of intensity-they enrich the quality of our emotional life.” ThinkingWaySelfMatterReasonFriendshipLevelsQualityAcceptingSelf EsteemEmotionalModelsOkayVariousEsteemHorizonIntensityEmotional Life Author:Judith Viorst
“Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life.” EarthFriendshipCompassionAcceptingKindnessFireImpossibleSkyCryDemandEternalAbsolutesCompromiseEternal LifeAfter DeathSpringtimeFriendship LoveLife After Death Author:Albert Camus
“Dogs don't know about beginnings, and they don't speculate on matters that occurred before their time. Dogs also don't know - or at least don't accept - the concept of death. With no concept of beginnings or endings dogs probably don't know that for people having a dog as a life companion provides a streak of light between two eternities of darkness.” PeopleKnowsTwoMatterLightFriendshipAnimalAcceptingDarknessDogConceptsEternityCompanionStreaks Author:Stanley Coren
“I'd be happy to have my biography be the stories of my dogs. To me, to live without dogs would mean accepting a form of blindness.” MeanStoriesFormFriendshipAcceptingDogBiographiesBlindnessMy DogMy Biography Author:Thomas McGuane