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Rachel Naomi Remen: “The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention.... A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.”

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Shel Silverstein: “Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.”

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Abraham Lincoln: “I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.”

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Henry David Thoreau: “Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.”

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Anais Nin: “Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back: a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”

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Henry Van Dyke: “It is not the gift, but the thought that counts.”

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Melody Beattie: “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: “I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.”

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Hafiz of Persia: “We don't need sugar, flour or rice or anything else. We just want to see our dear ones.”

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Margaret Mead: “One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.”

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Alice Miller: “If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.”

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Hafiz of Persia: “Even after all this time,
The sun never says to the earth,
'You owe me.'
Look what happens with
A love like that.
It lights the whole sky.”

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Betty Ford: “You can make it, but it's easier if you don't have to do it alone.”

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James Ishmael Ford: “In the spiritual life nowhere do our ideals meet the actual more truly than in how we relate to each other, in how we make, sustain and are friends.”

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Letty Cottin Pogrebin: “We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.”

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Robin Morgan: “Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love. ”

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Henry David Thoreau: “How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might go and meet their ideal cousins.”

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Georgia O'Keeffe: “Nobody sees a flower -- really -- it is so small it takes time -- we haven't time -- and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.”

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Elbert Hubbard: “The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.”

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Francis Bacon: “The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.”

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Karl Menninger: “Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.”

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Rowan D. Williams: “Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.”

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Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama: “We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.”

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Don Marquis: “There is nothing we like to see so much as the gleam of pleasure in a person's eye when he feels that we have sympathized with him, understood him. At these moments something fine and spiritual passes between two friends. These are the moments worth living.”

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Elizabeth Foley: “The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.”

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Arthur Ashe: “We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.”

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Charles Caleb Colton: “We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.”

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: “If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.”

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George Eliot: “What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”

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Bertrand Russell: “A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.”

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