Friendship

I recently found a quote that talks about the importance of friendship. More than that, I think, I feel it talks about how lucky you are if you have just ONE true friend. The quote is by a guy called Thomas Fuller, an English Clergyman who was born in 1608 and died in 1661. 

 If you have one true friend you have more than your share. 

 I agree do agree with this quote, and it has made me think about how lucky we are with the great friends we have over the process of our life. After finding his quote, I had a look online to see what people have said about this topic. A topic that we have all experienced.  

A friend to all is a friend to none. 

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies

 Aristotle 

For those of you who have either never heard or heard but never knew the name Aristotle, I'll explain. Aristotle was a Greek philosopher, born around 384BC and died around 322BC. (Please note, these figures are approximate)

But friendship does touch all of us, in so many different ways. Friends are there to support us when something goes wrong, to celebrate with us, to party with, to study with. The list is endless. And it works the other way round. 


But back to the quote that started me off. Thomas Fuller is right, true friends are hard to come by. Just by having one true friend, we have experienced some light at the end of the tunnel, and true friends, remember, never leave you. 
I'm going to finish with a quote that does show how much friendship effects us all.

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

Joseph Roux