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"You are my only friend in the world, and I want to talk to you. Or, perhaps, be silent with you."
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"Friends are the real superheroes. They battle our worst enemies-loneliness, grief, anxiety, depression, fear, and doubt-every time they come around."

"When we see a lonely fisherman, we ask where the boat is; when we see a lonely boat, we ask where the fisherman is! We love to see the good friends always together!"

"Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree."

"Friendship is not about ships-no matter how big and fancy and expensive the yacht is."

"Life's gonna kick you in the butt. That's what it does. But if you gotta put up with this crap, the least you can expect is that your friends will stand by you. I mean, for crying in the night, what else are friends for but to help you make right what isn't in life?"

"All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost. ...Each human soul has in a sense to enact for itself the gigantic humility of the Incarnation. Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind."

"A friend's bitter words seem to us more poisonous than a serpent's tooth."

"Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment."

"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood."

"How very wonderful friends the moon, the sea and the night are!"
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"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."

"When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility."

"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."

"The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them."

"The crux and crisis is that man found it natural to worship, even natural to worship unnatural things."

"Nobody can imagine how nothing could turn into something. Nobody can get an inch nearer to it by explaining how something could turn into something else. It is really far more logical to start by saying 'In the beginning God created heaven and earth' even ifyou only mean 'In the beginning some unthinkable power began some unthinkable process.' For God is by its nature aname of mystery, and nobody ever supposed that man could imagine how a world was created any more than he couldcreate one. But evolution really is mistaken for explanation. It has the fatal quality of leaving on many minds the impression that they do understand it and everything else."

"Somewhere embedded in every ordinary book are the five or six words for which really all the rest will be written."
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