1994
Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency.
142 min
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With the constant connectivity of today’s world, it’s never been easier to meet people and make new friends—but it’s never been harder to form meaningful friendships.
How can you sustain your friendships in a pandemic? The first step is recognizing their importance, argues author Lydia Denworth.
Friendships are affairs of the heart. How can we learn to treat them that way?
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives.
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People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.
Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.
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We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
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What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
Friendship . . . is born at the moment when one man says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .’