Friends and Peers

It’s impossible to forget a great friendship movie. Its memory lives on in your soul. When you think about the characters and their bonds, the story, the poignant scenes, you can be transported back to the moment you first saw…
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Friendships are one of the most profound elements of life; they enrich our existence and play a pivotal part in shaping the people we become. So, with friendships being such an important part of everyone’s existence, what are the effects…
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What is Friendship? Friendship is laughter. I thought about this for several days before I came up with the best answer.Think about it. Do you ever laugh with your enemies? (Laughing AT them doesn’t count.) To me, as you can…
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For some people, making friends can be a real ordeal. If you have a naturally outgoing personality and a readiness to chat, then you are going to gain a lot of interest from other people. This type of person can…
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One can learn much from even the most proverbial of quotes concerning friendship. Especially since few of these statements do not fail to ring true. That is, if you’re lucky enough to possess that which is one of the greatest…
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Friendship is… a close bond between two or more people. There is nothing in this world more valuable than having someone who cares about you. When it’s three a.m. and the world seems like it is going to end, you…
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When friends part company, regardless of who initiated the separation, they experience the same stages of loss as a death or divorce. They say the longer we are in a relationship, the longer the healing process. I personally believe this…
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An event that happened early in my life caused me to develop serious friendship issues, which is another story. However I did have one very special friend who stands out in my mind as my most treasured. Our friendship began…
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One of the most difficult and rewarding friendships I have ever been blessed with is my friendship with a guy we are going to call Al. Al is my best friend. There is no one on the earth who understands…
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Initially, the answer to why friendship needs to have a two way communication would be obvious to most of us who have friends that we communicate with. Someone needs to be listening while someone else is speaking, otherwise there would…
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A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. -Proverbs 18:24 Just as is true in other parts of life, friendships can go through seasons. There are times when…
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Sometimes it’s good to look first at the far end of a spectrum to more clearly see the nearest end. To determine the minimum cost of friendship, looking at the maximum cost is a most effective way to start. The…
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How well do you know your best friend? Can you finish each other’s sentences? Can you feel like you’ve spent a quality afternoon together even if all you’ve done is watch TV? Is your best friend the first person you…
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The history books and media are full of quotes about terrorism, war, crime, religious hatred, murder and all the other terrible things humans do to other humans. Fortunately, once in awhile a jewel shines out from all the muck, and…
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Testing to see if a friendship is real or even strong, is the worst thing you can possibly do to a budding friendship or an already established friendship. The only way to “test” if a friendship is real, is to…
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From the beginning of time, man has always been a social animal. This idea began with Adam, the first man who desired companionship, and therefore, Eve was created to be his partner. Primitive communities, such as the Aztec Indians, are…
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” A new friendship is like an unripened fruit ~ it may become either an orange or a lemon.” Emma Stacey A new friendship has come your way. You have enough things in common that you can spend time together…
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The ingredients for a healthy friendship should consist of all natural and home produced elements that can be produced in ready abundance. The base component is trust. Where would you be if you couldn’t trust your friend? A good friendship…
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A friend is someone who you can go to in time of need. Whether it is when you are in trouble, need help, advice or simply for companionship. Everyone needs to have at least one true friend that he or…
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Think of your best friend. Why are you friends? Your answer can be anything from a long description of what you like about each other, to something as simple as “I am me, He is he.” We can’t say what…
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When I was very young, I played an old record of my Mother’s. On it was a song called “My Buddy”. I’ve never forgotten it and sometimes sing it to my dog (I know that’s weird, but he’s a rescue…
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“He who loses money, loses much; he who loses a friend, loses much more; he who loses faith, loses all.” Eleanor Roosevelt The most popular sayings about friendship remind us to be honest and loyal, to value our friends, and…
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Were we ever really friends? That’s a question asked when something goes wrong between human beings who have shared a closeness. When one starts to wonder if it was truly a friendship or a figment of the imagination, the question…
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Friends make your life worth living, or at least they brighten up your life. When a friendship gets broken, it can be a devastating experience. Sometimes even more so than when a romantic relationship ends. Friendships, unlike many romantic relationships,…
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A platonic friendship is defined as a relationship transcending physical desires and tending toward the purely ideal or spiritual level. These friendships can be very deep and important in out lives. Sometimes they do cause a problem. Well maybe there…
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The first thing that comes to mind when we hear the word “cost” is money. There lies the greatest fallacy about life and friendship. Commercial society has taught us that everything can be exchanged for money, yet it does not…
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Teens and life lessons from friendships As a teen, I took friendships for granted; the most intense lesson I learned from this was that friendships, no matter how special, do have breaking points. I mistakenly thought that a friend would…
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When two people of the opposite sex start spending time together, some of it alone, in activities that could appear as dating, someone invariably asks the question, “Are you two, you know, together?” “No, we’re just friends.” Just friends. The…
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My favorite movies about friendship both starred Art Carney. He’s remembered mostly today as the idiotic sewer-worker sidekick of Jackie Gleason the early TV series, “The Honeymooners.” However, Carney was a perceptive, versatile actor who could play tragedy well enough…
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“Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave and impossible to forget.” G. Randolph The best quotes on friendship are the ones that inspire us to be better friends. Reading them re-warms a place in our heart and…
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