<aside> 👋🏼 Here’s a list of the things ppl suggested about “friendships,” thanks for sharing ur rec! Lmk if there’s any you’d add!
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C.S. Lewis wrote: “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
A friend is a loved one who awakens your life in order to free the wild possibilities within you. […] The one you love, your anam cara, your soul friend, is the truest mirror to reflect your soul. The honesty and clarity of true friendship also brings out the real contour of your spirit.
If you realize how vital to your whole spirit — and being and character and mind and health — friendship actually is, you will take time for it… [But] for so many of us … we have to be in trouble before we remember what’s essential… It’s one of the lonelinesses of humans that you hold on desperately to things that make you miserable and … you only realize what you have when you’re almost about to lose it.
We Should Get Together by Kat Vellos
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
Friendly Ambitious Nerd by Visakan Veerasamy
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
https://twitter.com/orangebook_/status/1578704550776958976?s=46&t=jPGMMXNxqRx_hMnqNPBamQ
https://twitter.com/Julian/status/1578248756759330818
https://twitter.com/JerryZYe1/status/1469075790092513292?s=20&t=iAF2g4xIlpAk9XQa9y1mfw
Making Friends Version 1.0.pdf
How to make friends over the internet - Alexey Guzey
Vulnerability: The Key to Better Relationships
Simone Weil, the great French mystic who fasted to death in solidarity with frontline soldiers, said that “attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity”.