Here is the seventh part of this series, gathering together and sharing some more brief quotations on the topic of friendship from various podcasts – any of which, I should say, you can find for free if they capture your interest.
#23 Finding Your Tribe with Freya Ridings – Adulting
‘I think the takeaway from that is that it makes so much sense, because you’re finally allowed to do exactly what it is that you want to be doing, so obviously you’re going to be around the people that do that.’
Oenone Forbat
‘[When you’re finally doing what you love] It brings out the best in you, and people bring out the best in them, and suddenly you just get to be yourself.’
Freya Ridings
Navigating Friendships :: Melanie Shankle [Ep 273] – Don’t Mom Alone (God Centered Mom)
‘What dawned on me was that new friends eventually become old friends but you have to start somewhere.’
Melanie Shankle
‘You can like somebody and not agree with them politically. You can like somebody and not embrace all their beliefs, but there’s still a friendship and our common human experience, and the things we’ve gone through, and the life we’ve lived with somebody, and I’m just not interested in ending the relationship over those kind of things.’
Melanie Shankle
Loneliness: The Vanishing Glass (Book 1, Chapter 2) – Harry Potter and the Sacred Text
‘There is abundance even when we don’t feel as though there is. I will often feel like “oh, I can’t take up too much of that person’s time” or “oh, what if I run out,” right? I’m always feeling rushed and I wonder how much of that is tied into feeling like nothing is enough… You know, an hour with a friend is enough, and I think that that’s just something I have to start reminding myself of. So I feel called to recognising abundance when it’s right in front of me rather than constantly feeling like everything is scarce.’
Vanessa Zoltan
Friendship: Halloween (Book 1, Chapter 10) – Harry Potter and the Sacred Text
‘We really have to learn the art of friendship.’
Casper ter Kuilie
‘I think we really learn about how friendship is formed and the kind of ingredients of friendship, in a way… there’s this element of shared memory and shared story that forms a foundation of friendship that you can always, kind of, remember together… The crucial piece is that if it just stays there it’s not enough, it doesn’t deepen.
The second ingredient is all about deepening that, which is shared work, a shared mission… physical, intellectual, moral work and that, that’s how those new memories are formed. So I think there’s something about shared work – not all types of work lead to friendship…
But then the final ingredient is also about having people who are not your friends… so there’s kind of a dark side of friendship a little bit there as well.’
Casper ter Kuile
‘If you don’t have a close band of brothers, then enough trust isn’t going to get built up to go on the real adventures together… If there was 100 of them and there wasn’t that total trust of “when I fall, you’ll catch me” that was built up, they wouldn’t be able to do the amazing things they do.’
Vanessa Zoltan
Feminine Finishing School 