friendship
Sometimes the Reason You Can’t Find People You Resonate With Is Because You Misread the Ones You Meet
Henrik Karlssonhenrikkarlsson.xyzA beautiful quote from John O’Donahue, on friendship and conversations:
... See moreWhen was the last time you had a great conversation? A conversation that wasn’t just two intersecting monologues, but when you overheard yourself saying things you never knew you knew, that you heard yourself receiving from somebody words that found places within you that you
I 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
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It's like we're living separate lives that we then tell each other about, not sharing in the living itself.
Michael Ashcroft • Notes on friendship as a co-adventure
In 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.