To Determine Intimacy

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It’s not time or opportunity that determines intimacy; it’s disposition alone. 7 years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, & 7 days are more than enough for others.

Water Your Flowers

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Someone congratulated a friend and they deflected the compliment. So the original speaker said, “I’m gonna give you your flowers, you can water them or not. Water your flowers.

The Benjamin Franklin Effect

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If you want someone to like you, ask them to do you a small favor. It might sound backward, but studies show that if you do something nice for someone, you will like them more and want to help them again. It’s called The Benjamin Franklin Effect. According to legend, Franklin asked an enemy if he could borrow a book, then thanked him profusely. They became lifelong friends.

What! You Too?

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Friendship… is born at the moment when one man says to another, “What? You too? I thought that no one but myself…” ~ C. S. Lewis

Go Out To Be A Friend

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If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere. ~ Zig Ziglar

Close Friends Are Truly Life’s Treasures

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Close friends are truly life’s treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves, with gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never truly alone. ~ Vincent Van Gogh