friendship
I’m increasingly convinced it’s much easier (and happier) to assume strangers are friends you haven’t met yet, than to assume strangers will remain strangers.
Amanda Natividad • Tweet

a handshake vs. a hug ❤️
instagram.comI think something I’m increasingly learning in my 20s is that individual friendships are so much more nourishing and intensely peaceful than trying to fit into big groups — feel so at home when it’s 1:1
Nix 🕊twitter.comIn working so hard to become independent, we forget how much satisfaction we get from the sense that others depend on us, and the meaning we can create by allowing ourselves to be dependent on others—if only we have the courage to let them help us.
billmei.net • Friendships Form via Shared Context, Not Shared Activities
I guess if we’re talking about joy, writing, and being a fully rendered person in the world, my main sources of liveliness are so human and obvious they might seem facile: 1) loving the people I love with full throttle abandon – my guy, our kids, my mom and dad, our gaggle of brothers, my army of girlfriends. So that’s advice, maybe: make as many... See more
Rachel DeWoskin Tells Us
old friendships have such a purity to them — they just love you for your core essence or being rather than all your accomplishments or job title or money or power
nametwitter.comHome - BELONG: Find Your People, Create Community, and Live a More Connected Life
Radha Agrawal • 3 highlights
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