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A friend is what the heart needs all the time.
-Henry Van Dyke
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A Friend Is What The Heart Needs

Henry Van Dyke
A friend is what the heart needs all the time.
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A friend is more than a therapist or confessor, even though a friend can sometimes heal us and offer us god's forgiveness. a friend is that other person with whom we can share our solitude, our silence, and our prayer. a friend is that other person with whom we can look at a tree and say, "isn't that beautiful," or sit on the beach and silently watch the sun disappear under the horizon. with a friend we don't have to say or do something special. with a friend we can be still and know that god is there with both of us.
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Reuven listen to me. the talmud says that a person should do two things for himself. one is to acquire a teacher. do you remember the other." "choose a friend," i said. "yes. you know what a friend is, reuven? a greek philosopher said that two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul." i nodded. "reuven, if you can, make danny saunders your friend." "i like him a lot, abba." "no. listen to me. i am not talking about only liking him. i am telling you to make him your friend and to let him make you his friend.
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If i had a friend and loved him because of the benefits which this brought me and because of getting my own way, then it would not be my friend that i loved but myself. i should love my friend on account of his own goodness and virtues and account of all that he is in himself. only if i love my friend in this way do i love him properly.
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The service a man renders his friend is trivial and selfish, compared with the service he knows his friend stood in readiness to yield him, alike before he had begun to serve his friend, and now also. compared with that good-will i bear my friend, the benefit it is in my power to render him seems small.
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