“The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time.” SoulWholeLightSpiritualFriendshipQualityCastsBrilliantWhole LifeAll TimeMy SoulCapturedShostakovich Author:Galina Vishnevskaya
“Close friendships are one of life's miracles - that a few people get to know you deeply, all your messy or shadowy stuff along with the beauty and sweetness, and they still love you. Not only still love you, but love you more and more deeply. I would do anything for my closest friends, and they would do almost anything for me, and that is about as spiritual a truth as you can get.” PeopleKnowsStillsSpiritualStuffFriendshipLove YouMiracleClosestSweetnessMessyClose FriendsClosest FriendsLove You MoreStill Love YouClose Friendship Author:Anne Lamott
“Then, though I prize my friends, I cannot afford to talk with them and study their visions, lest I lose my own. It would indeed give me a certain household joy to quit this lofty seeking, this spiritual astronomy, or search of stars, and come down to warm sympathies with you; but then I know well I shall mourn always the vanishing of my mighty gods.” KnowsGivingWellsSpiritualJoyCertainStarsFriendshipLosesMy OwnVisionStudyFriendsMy FriendsGive MeSeekingWarmQuittingAstronomyPrizeHouseholdMournLoftyMighty GodVanishing Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)