Tuesday, January 1, 2008

Friendship quote

One of my aMUSEme friends posted this to the group yesterday. I thought it a wonderful, thought-provoking quote:

But oh! The blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearless on any subject; with whom one's deepest as well as one's most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely. Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

- Dinah Craik 1866

5 comments:

kT said...

i love the first bit about being totally open. thanks for the quote!!! :)

Brook S. said...

Ruth! Thank you so much for reminding me about sending out the swap books! I don't know how I had forgotten about those. They have been sitting by my scrap table done for ages. They will be out in the mail first thing tomorrow! I sincerely apopogize for the delay...it's been so hectic aorund here! I also wanted to thank you for the sweet Christmas card you sent. It's beautiful! Okay, end of novel! :)

Auntie Em said...

I just love that quote!

Geri said...

Oh Wow! I love that! I may have to use that on a LO one day

tee said...

ruth
I just tagged you !
see my blog and keep it going :)
pretty please!

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