“In my friend I find a second self.” Isabel Norton

“A joy that’s shared is a joy made double.” English Proverb

“My friends are my estate.” Emily Dickinson

Who among us could survive and thrive in pursuing the writing life without our friends—those dear ones who encourage and appreciate us, console and extol us? Those sweet souls can magically make us believe we are wonderful and still full of promise when we’re feeling low? In honor of those supportive soulmates, a gathering of wisdom:

“There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation of one’s self, the very meaning of one’s soul.” Edith Wharton

“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.” Euripides

“ Be slow to fall into friendships: but when thru art in, continue firm and constant.” Socrates

“You can always tell a true friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.” Laurence J. Peter

“Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.” Virginia Woolf

“We’re not primarily on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.” Peter De Vries

“A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you’ve forgotten the words.” Donna Roberts

“I am a success today because a friend believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.” Abraham Lincoln

“There is nothing better than a friend unless it is a friend with chocolate.” Charles Dickens

“Gentle ladies, you will remember till old age what we did together in our brilliant youth!” Sappho

“I am wealthy in my friends.” William Shakespeare

“A friend is a gift you give ourself.” Robert Louis Stevenson

“Iron sharpeneth iron: so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.” Proverbs 27:17

And now, reminded of all they mean to us, let’s be sure to reach out to our friends and sing their praises back to them! Write on!

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