Friendship Training Camp

This was a table of 8 people: 5 people who had known each other for over 20 years. Then there were 2 of us who had known one of them for a few years. And there was a new friend we’d had for a day.

And our newest friend made an observation that perfectly expressed what I was feeling in that moment, amidst a group of incredibly tight friends who had k... See more

Engineering Friendship

Belonging

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another: ‘What? You too? I thought I was the only one.’”—C. S. Lewis

Friendships provide a safe place to be vulnerable, uncomfortable, ask “stupid questions,” and genuinely contribute to each other’s development, empathy, and understanding.

Kat Vellos • We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships

Friendship is a bulwark against stasis, a potential source of creativity and renewal.Practically everyone who studies friendship says this in some form or another: What makes friendship so fragile is also exactly what makes it so special. You have to continually opt in. That you choose it is what gives it its value.

Jennifer Senior • It’s Your Friends Who Break Your Heart

Friendship is powerful. The strength of its bond has the ability to get past everything that seems to be important and find the things that are truly important. Those things are never external. They always deal with the spirit. They are shared values and goals. Friendship is about who you truly are, not who you appear to be.

Jonathan Jenkins • Becoming God's Friend: Understanding Your Growth from Servant to Friend

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