only because of my amazing friends.
"A good friend is a connection to life, a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world."
-Lois Wyse
"Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words."
-George Elliot
"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares."
-Henri Nouwen
"Friends broaden our horizons. They serve as new models with whom we can identify. They allow us to be ourselves--and accept us that way. They enhance our self-esteem because they think we're okay, because we matter to them. And because they matter to us-for various reasons, at various levels of intensity-they enrich the quality of our emotional life."
-Judith Viorst
I wrote this in my writer's notebook on February 1, 2011...
