Friendship
* Most friendships are similar to the relationship between close neighbors.
* Some friendships start in childhood and continue all through life.
* also affect group relationships
  - change as people age, particularly after they retire
* are a very important part of children's emotional development
  - about more than sexual identity
  - created by trust
  - extremely important in today's society
  - films
  - foundations necessary for life and love
* are important in helping children develop emotionally and socially
  - to young children
  - important, even in marriage
  - labs for learning to communicate, empathize, argue, and reflect
  - relationships that bring true joy and true happiness into our lives
  - special and unique because they are built around faith and a special experience
* are the basis for mutual rivalries and personal challenge
  - way young people build community on campuses
  - very important to mental fitness
  - with people of the same age
* based on pleasure can vary in their duration
  - virtue is based on wishing the good for the other person
* bond between two souls, inseparable in many ways.
* can cross barriers of age and sex
  - have effects
  - transcend race, religion, sexual preference, and political parties
* cause a desire to surprise.
* closeness that is so beautiful, it grows over the years and blossoms stronger.
* come in all sizes and shapes.
* comes in all shapes and colors.
* consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives.
* depends more on loving than on being loved.
* develop among toddlers and their families
  - when mentors and mentees let down their defenses and communicate openly
* echo throughout time, broadcasting emotions and ideas to the people involved.
* enables single men and women to have intimacy on their own terms.
* grow as time is invested.
* has nothing to do with family, physical attraction or romantic love.
* have little to do with age, gender, or race.
* help people grow and increase their self esteem and self confidence
  - live longer as much as exercise does
* helps build self esteem and teach empathy
  - stop the loneliness and isolation that people all experience in their lives
* is about sharing, reaching out, and caring
  - also synonymous with fidelity
* is an exchange of respect
  - important thing in everyone's life
  - associative and commutative
* is based on love and trust
  - self-love
  - trust, honor, respect, and loyalty
* is built of trust, respect, and the ability to know
  - on a personal relationship between two people
  - composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies
  - constant in all other things, save in the office and affairs of love
  - different from all other relationships
  - harmony and equality
  - just as important to physcial health as it is to happiness and peace of mind
* is love with understanding
  - wings
  - made with women and civilization originates from a woman
  - man's romanticism
  - one mind in two bodies
* is one of the highest and most important relationships that exist amongst mankind
  - prize gem of human relationship
  - soul in two bodies
  - something that can be strong enough to break the barriers of prejudice
* is the backbone of society today
  - bridge between lonely and loved, between a glance and a gaze
  - cement that holds the world together
  - context within which prejudice and divisiveness lose their power
  - emblem of eternity
* is the golden thread that ties the hearts of all the world
  - together our hearts
  - hidden energy calling nations to justice
  - key and foundation to what the future holds in a relationship
  - marriage of affections
  - medicine that removes all difficulties in life
  - one bright light, that keeps on burning day and night
  - response of person gifts to the giver
  - soil through which love's seeds grow
  - very important to the conjunction of minds
* means being able to laugh together, to cry together, to pray together
  - helping ease the loneliness in life
* means to make and keep a friend through mutual trust and caring
  - trust two or more people
* mutual feeling of affection between two individuals.
* never-dying bond between two people.
* occur within the context of doing significant things, pursuing visions and dreams.
* often go through four phases, according to psychologists.
* part of the body, a part of soul, and the mind.
* promise spoken only by the heart.
* rainbow between two people.
* reduce emotional and physical health risks, but time spent with friends is declining.
  - of mutual affection between people
  - that has no formal shape
* shoulder to cry on When life seems to be upside down.
* single soul dwelling in two bodies.
* sort of self-love.
* source of intimacy and of experiencing family.
* special word with a sacred meaning of 'a sincere gift of self' to the other.
* strong bond between people.
* subdivision of faith.
* unique bond that lasts through all tribulations
  - it all
* virtue or implies a virtue, and is necessary with a view to living.
* way of loving.
+ Michelle Creber: 1999 births :: Living people :: Canadian singers :: Canadian voice actors :: People from Vancouver
  * Friendship Is Magic. The album features popular musicians from the brony community.