Letty Cottin Pogrebin Quotes

As we travel across the life span. We make friends and friends make us.

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.

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From rocking horse to rocking chair—friendship is what keeps teaching us about being human.

Friends can be said to fall in like with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.

In a [friendship], advice is a gift, not a command—and it can be returned unused if it doesn't fit.

If illness is the embodiment of powerlessness, which, believe me, is true, then waiting is its temporal incarnation.

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Why hope to live a long life if we're only going to fill it with self-absorption, body maintenance, and image repair?

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Friendship is a heartflooding feeling that can happen to any two people who are caught up in the act of being themselves, together.

Illness is friendship's proving ground, the uncharted territory where one's actions may be the least sure-footed but also the most indelible.

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