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FRIENDSHIP THROUGH ART...

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FRIENDSHIP THROUGH ART...

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CA4S-ATHENSART SHORT CV

Friendship through Art can change the World Peacefully CA4S-AthensArt is a non-commercial and non-profitable International Artists and Art Lovers Community. There are no fees either for inscription or participation in all Events, in Greece and abroad. Our philosophy is based on the “Positive Side of Life”, as well as in the “Power of Friendship” that can change through Art the World peacefully. For the last 30 years, the Centre of Arts 4 Seasons (CA4S) created various cultural Events like “Kavafia”, “IaponiaJapan-Japon”, “Multispectacle 4 Seasons”, “Multispectacle Aristophanes Androgyne”, Philanthropic Art Exhibitions in Greece and abroad, published books and produced CDs, organized numerous Conferences, etc. In the year 2010 we realized our first International Arts Festival AthensArt, in collaboration with the Cultural Organization “Technopolis” and under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture and the City of Athens, with the theme “The Positive side of Life” and “Friendship through Art can change the World”, and participation of 300 artists from 5 Continents and 65 countries of the World. During 2011 AthensArt has been present in Monterrey/Mexico with Prints for Peace, in London/UK to support victims of HIV in Tanzania and to assist children in Zambia, in Vienna/Austria with a philanthropic exhibition for the victims of Earthquake-Tsunami in Japan, in Piraeus/Greece in collaboration with UNESCO’s Association for Peace, in Rostov Region/Russia with our International Arts Festival and in Ubá/Brazil. In Greece, besides our Syntagma Square exhibition and participation in the Egyptian Cultural Week dedicated to Naguib Mahfouz in Athens, we started our AthensArt Odysseia in “Ambelonas” Corfu, making a second stop in the “House of Culture” of Rethymno /Crete. For 2012 we were present in the State Picture Gallery of Izmail/ Ukraine and in the 2nd Egyptian Cultural Week in Athens, dedicated to the 10th Anniversary of Bibliotheca Alexandrina, in collaboration with the Embassy of Egypt. Our AthensArt Odysseia continued its journey in Greece in Naxos in the Former Ursuline School and in Corfu in the Patio of Corfu’s Psychiatric Hospital. On 2013 we have been in Gallery Apartment No 10 of Odessa/Ukraine, and have postponed our invitation from Bibliotheca Alexandria/ Egypt for next year, due to political situation. On 2014 we have been in Bispgården/Sweden, Vienna/Austria and Monterrey/Mexico. On 2015 we have been in Oropos/Greece and in Rostov on Don/Russia. Οn 2016 we have been present in several cities of Colombia and on 2017, in collaboration with UNESCO Piraeus & Islands we organized an Event dedicated to the Life and Work of Nikos Kazantzakis, in Meropeion Foundation in Athens and in Stathopouleio Cultural Centre of Vyronas Municipality. Our official invitation from Bibliotheca Alexandrina of Alexandria/Egypt, remains open. Furthermore, for 2019 we are planning to be in New York/USA, Paris/France, Rahovec/Kosovo, Sifnos/Greece and Tirana/Albania.

EL AMARNA - THE CITY OF LOVE

Self-knowledge - Friendship - Participation FRIENDSHIP is an essential relation "I-You", which depends on Self-knowledge, and leads to Social Participation...

To start accomplishing this great task, we need to learn Listening carefully, Asking important questions, and finally, come to a sincere and constructive Dialogue... To insist on one's positions is not Dialogue... To compromise, is not a Dialogue too...

By doing so, we'll experience, for the first time, the Sacred Energy of LOVE, the only way to be healed, leaving behind, once and for all, our traumatic past, and start taking Real pleasure in a Full Life...

The Path of Love, which has NO end, began, historically, with Pharaoh Akhenaten and Queen Nefertiti during the 18th Dynasty, in ancient Egypt (1353-1336 BC). Peace and Monotheism were established through the whole Empire, worshiping the God Aton, the Sun, as the Source of all creations, building finally the City Tell El - Amarna, The City of Love...

The path of Love, which has its roots in Real Self and not in a “dirty” I , was, historically, started and has been followed through the centuries by great philosophers, poets, artists and scientists, such as Pythagoras, Plato, Alexander the Great, Plotinos, Hypatia, Aqafi, Shamsi, Rumi, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Ravel, Cavafy, Gurdjieff, Einstein and Tzelepi...

“A life without love is a waste. ‘Should I look for spiritual love, or material, or physical love?’, don’t ask yourself this question. Discrimination leads to discrimination. Love doesn’t need any name, category or definition. Love is a world itself. Either you are in, at the center... either you are out, yearning.” Shamsi Tabrizi

Prof. Dr. Takis Alexiou, CA4S-AthensArt Chairman, Athens, December 2018

Participants BAUDRY EMMANUELLE DUFFY TAMMY KANE REBECCA TAKIS ALEXIOU ALSHAIKH IDRIS ALDAW DO JULIANA KOSTRZEWA LIHTING LI LESSEL JAGODA GALANOPOULOS FOTIS NANDAN DINDA SANTANU HILL FLORETTE FARAHMAND HENGAMEH GAMBINO ANTONINO SINGHA AMAR KANVINDE MANJIRI NEDEV SLAV OUAMANE TAHAR ORFEL M. FAKHRI BOSE RAJU PISARSKA EWA BERRY-LOUND DOROTHY CHRIST MARY FRUMKIN GILDA CEZANNE-THAUSS CHRISTINE HERAZO-OSORIO JOSE FERRAN RAFAEL KURZEMNIECE AGNESE EL JAMOUS JOSEPH GRIGORIOS

Paintings KLEANTHI WEXLER ANITA ZIRINIS-BORSA AGNES FELLNER EVA EFRAIMIDOU CLIO-CHRISTINA BUCUR CRISTINA DA RIVA DANIELA DABROWSKI WALDEMAR MITAKI TATYANA MARKOU DEMETER ZIMMER EVIE ARGYRAKI ASSARIOTAKI THEODOSIA AKAR ALEXANDRE HARTWELL M. ANN VICTORICA GUADALUPE MANUELA CALINDAS MARCONI RODRIGUES ALEX CORAZZIARI GUIDO TALIADOROU MARGARITA PAVLOVIC DRAZEN TAMPAKOPOULOU SUZANNA PERKOVIC STJEPAN TALIADOROU MARGARITA CROTEAU MARY ELLEN MEDINA-SALUDO CORINNE CHAVIAROPOULOU STELLA KORONAEOU ELENI

BAUDRY EMMANUELLE - Alès, France

DUFFY TAMMY - Trenton, NJ, USA

KANE REBECCA - New York, NY, USA

TAKIS ALEXIOU - Athens, Greece

ALSHAIKH IDRIS ALDAW - Khartoum, Sudan

DO JULIANA - Vienna, Austria

KOSTRZEWA LIHTING LI - Mount Pleasant, MI, USA

LESSEL JAGODA - Vienna, Austria

NANDAN DINDA SANTANU - Jamshedpur, India

GALANOPOULOS FOTIS - Drama, Greece

HILL FLORETTE - Bad Honnef, Germany

FARAHMAND HENGAMEH - Hamburg, Germany

GAMBINO ANTONINO - Palermo, Italy

SINGHA AMAR - West Bengal, India

NEDEV SLAV - Sofia, Bulgaria KANVINDE MANJIRI - Singapore, Singapore

OUAMANE TAHAR - Algiers, Algeria

ORFEL M. FAKHRI - Tripoli, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

BOSE RAJU - Delhi, India

PISARSKA EWA - Bartoszyce, Poland

BERRY-LOUND DOROTHY - Paciano, Italy

CHRIST MARY - Evia, Greece

FRUMKIN GILDA - Athens, Greece

CEZANNE-THAUSS CHRISTINE - Vienna, Austria

HERAZO-OSORIO JOSE - Hollywood, FL, USA

FERRAN RAFAEL - New York, NY, USA

KURZEMNIECE AGNESE - Riga, Latvia

EL JAMOUS JOSEPH GRIGORIOS - Athens, Greece

WEXLER ANITA - Sarasota, FL, USA

KLEANTHI - Patras, Greece

ZIRINIS-BORSA AGNES - Athens, Greece

FELLNER EVA - Vienna, Austria

EFRAIMIDOU CLIO-CHRISTINA - Thessaloniki, Greece

BUCUR CRISTINA - Thessaloniki, Greece

DA RIVA DANIELA - Milano, Italy

DABROWSKI WALDEMAR - Wroclaw, Poland

MITAKI TATYANA - Izmail, Ukraine

MARKOU DEMETER - Athens, Greece

ZIMMER EVIE - Cleveland, OH, USA

ARGYRAKI ASSARIOTAKI THEODOSIA - Heraklio, Greece

HARTWELL M. ANN - Livermore, CA, USA

AKAR ALEXANDRE - Paris, France

VICTORICA GUADALUPE - Monterrey, Mexico

MANUELA - London, United Kingdom

RODRIGUES ALEX - Bombay, India

CALINDAS MARCONI - San Francisco, CA, USA

CORAZZIARI GUIDO - Bari, Italy

TALIADOROU MARGARITA - Athens, Greece

PAVLOVIC DRAZEN - Varaždin, Croatia

TAMPAKOPOULOU SUZANNA - Athens, Greece

PERKOVIC STJEPAN - Zagreb, Croatia

BARDANI KIKI - Athens, Greece

CROTEAU MARY ELLEN - Chicago IL, USA

MEDINA-SALUDO CORINNE - Puymoyen, France

CHAVIAROPOULOU STELLA - Thessaloniki, Greece

KORONAEOU ELENI - Athens, Greece

Photos

Participants BHATIA DEEPAK BLANK ELAINE DIAMANTI FLORA ARVANITIS PANOS FREEMAN RIK TINAMISAN JOAN VAN GRONINGEN ALEX TARASSOV NICKOLAEVITCH OLEG MARKOU NEGIANTA EFI KONTOPOULOU CONSTANTINA MILLET NACHO VAICIKEVICIUS EDGARAS JAMBUNATHAN RAVIKUMAR

CULAFIC JELICA MANGELA SIDDHESH WEGGEN GEERT ZHOU SHANGLIE MARCUCCI BARBARA RAZAFIMANIMBY MEJA MIANGOLA KAVALIOTIS TZANETOS GRØNSETH JUNE MC CORMACK DAN ANGELE KARIN HERAZO-OSORIO JOSE FERRAN RAFAEL

BHATIA DEEPAK - New Delhi, India

BLANK ELAINE - Porto Alegre, Brazil

DIAMANTI FLORA - Athens, Greece

ARVANITIS PANOS - Athens, Greece

FREEMAN RIK - Dudley, United Kingdom

TINAMISAN JOAN - Pagbilao, Philippines

TARASSOV NICKOLAEVITCH OLEG - Rostov, Russia VAN GRONINGEN ALEX - Criccieth, United Kingdom

MARKOU NEGIANTA EFI - Athens, Greece

KONTOPOULOU CONSTANTINA - Thessaloniki, Greece

MILLET NACHO - Matarรณ, Catalonia, Spain

DE CULLA DANIEL - Madrid, Spain

VAICIKEVICIUS EDGARAS - Vilnius, Lithuania

JAMBUNATHAN RAVIKUMAR - Singapore, Singapore

CULAFIC JELICA - Belgrade, Serbia & Montenegro

MANGELA SIDDHESH - Mumbai, India

WEGGEN GEERT - Bispgården, Sweden

ZHOU SHANGLIE - Mortsel, Belgium

MARCUCCI BARBARA - Ascoli Piceno, Italy

RAZAFIMANDIMBY MEJA MIANGOLA - Antananarivo, Madagascar

KAVALIOTIS TZANETOS - Athens, Greece GRØNSETH JUNE - Laukvik, Norway

MC CORMACK DAN - Accord, NY, USA

ANGELE KARIN - Cologne, Germany

Miscellaneous

Participants DI FRANCIS ANNELI PIERUS ANDREA CASTILLO DANIEL TSEKERIS DENIS PINI CHIARA SAVATIANOU CHRISTINA BOELEN JESSY THEOCHARIS MAGDALENE

PIERUS ANDREA - Vienna & Graz, Austria

DI FRANCIS ANNELI- Seinäjoki, Finland

CASTILLO DANIEL - Bucaramanga, Colombia

TSEKERIS DENIS - Ag. Paraskevi, Athens, Greece

PINI CHIARA - Mogliano Veneto, Italy

SAVATIANOU CHRISTINA - Athens, Greece

BOELEN JESSY - Groningen, Netherlands

THEOCHARIS MAGDALENE - Penteli, Greece

Texts-Poems

Participants ANTONIOU JAMES GALANOPOULOS FOTIS VIDAL VICTOR MONTEMURRO ANTONIETTA TEOBALDELLI GIUSEPPE

ANTONIOU JAMES - Marathon, Greece

Old mister Mendios The years pass through us like the clear wind. Our body is drying of its juices and begins to dry up like the

autumn leafs when the soil begins to freeze. When we were children we believed that the road we had to walk was long and our journey in life huge. Well, the truth is a little different. Life seems like a small drop in the bottomless pit of time.

The words were dripping from the lips of the old fisherman as he looked at us; his new sons as he used to call us and tears were wetting his tired and dull from the cataract eyes. We were, all together, a handful of kids in our thirteen. The first stirrings of manhood were beginning to be felt within ourselves and our need to drain knowledge from the wisdom of older and more experienced men had led us once again to mister Mendios’ hut by the sea.

He was “divorced” from his “wife”, the sea, for many years, as he used to often say and yet, although he lived next to her, on the beach that ran very closely to the port of Myrtle, he was seeking for her every day.

When we were asking him with all the innocence of our age, how on earth was it possible to marry the water, he was laughing. His dug from the salt skin was of glowing. It looked like the varnished wood from which his old navy chest was made from. His chest that according to him, was holding inside the story of his whole life.

His laughter was accompanied by a curious sound coming from his lungs that made us laugh and peek at each other. The "engine is running!” we would say later quietly, taking care that he wouldn’t hear us and feel bad.

The sea is a beautiful woman he was answering our question. Her skin is sometimes soft and smooth and sometimes rough and ugly. Her lips, are sometimes half open ready to offer all the pleasure that can be hidden in a man’s dreams and sometimes tightly closed and glaring ready to give you the greatest harm. Her eyes mellowed as if from the finest amber are always staring with love. You can fell her love, the good days, when you are far away on convey waters gathering all the fishes she has to offer you safe and happy, but when you are in the wrong turmoil with the wind blowing your hurt away and the waves mercilessly hit your boat and your hull looks ready to collapse in pieces, you then understand that you did something wrong and your wife is unhappy.

We could not cease with wide open eyes to suck the words of these unknown pleasures dressed with beautiful colors by the old fisherman; that was exactly what was leading us every day to his hut. The stories he wasn’t telling us, the wicked, the stories he had lived on his journeys, in every foreign port, these were the stories we were eager to hear. We were expecting the moment he would decide to offer them

to us, and put us in the big club that was usually sited in kafenia, whispering about naked girls and picking on each other when a pretty girl was passing in front of them.

Each day when we were leaving his hut we were passing outside Yannoula’s house. Yannoula had the same age with me but she looked more feminine than all the other girls. I was hiding behind the flowers outside her courtyard, hoping that she would not see me or to be honest that she would. She was always there reading. She wore dresses with furan and always had her one leg above the other. The small fleshy space connecting the cushion of the chair and her dress was a steady part of my dreams. Once I had satiated my eyes, I was leaving to go home happy and with a worm sense coming from my hurt and some more parts of me.

One Sunday morning I told my mother that I was sick; I did not want to go to church. The summer was glorious and the church seemed dark and cold. Once my parents left I got dressed and run straight to the hut. While getting ready to hit the door I heard something dragging the reeds behind my back. I turned sharply and saw Yiannoula trying to hide. It seems that I wasn’t the only one hiding. I smiled calmly and called her to come closer. She approached me with a smile, she took my hand in hers and together we knocked on the door. There was no answer. I pushed the door and saw mister Mendios trying to walk, leaning on a small table.

- Take me to my boat, he said with a trembling voice. I have to go to her. She is calling me.

We walked to his sides and he touched our shoulders. Gradually we got him to his small boat. He walked in and sat by the oars.

- Don’t ever leave your woman alone, he said looking straight into my eyes. Love her as a part of your body, and whenever she calls you run to her, run as fast as you can.

That was the day mister Mendios disappeared. Nobody ever saw him coming back or found any parts of his boat. There are times even today, when we go to the beach with Yiannoula and our children, that I can clearly see his figure between the waves looking at me.

- Do not worry, I whisper, I will never leave her alone. I smile to the sea and approach my family.

GALANOPOULOS FOTIS - Drama, Greece

Friendship  The hardest thing in the world,

almost impossible, to find people with ruined walls.

Ruins to rest your soul.

To say and shout to the singing wind, wondering within the shapes those that do not dare ... do not dare to say, neither to yourself And he listens ... without judging ... Â nothing in return ...

For you!

And when you find him, if you find him, remember before you go, to take the memory with you.

Homage to his rich soul.

VIDAL VICTOR - Lima, Peru

TEOBALDELLI GIUSEPPE - Sforzacosta, Macerata, Italy

Consolation of the poet

MONTEMURRO ANTONIETTA - Potenza, Italy

Emerging... ... from the dark night you seem my shadow about you I know nothing and yet we crossed a million times.

Lonely with your time without shelter nor guarantees as in yours, in my first coming into the world vastness.

Without knowing you force me to watch inside the inmost human fragility.

Even without knowing you give me as a gift the unknown homeland the life as a journey.

Maybe tomorrow in the sunlight we’ll have another aspect and in the free air one the shadow of the other we’ll go down together sowing drops of hope.

Patient, like the earth; you receive every beat and in the shade and indifferent light push into the ventricles of the heart the sap that you get from dung of ash.

See ... like the sparse reeds, the sharp edges of the foliage, they are not like enclosure and bound hedges, but ways, ways for everywhere; and the wind,with each passing, if with insects it carries only thin hops in two colors, three, yet this is the place, the unadorned space.

Where he sang Sirene, surrounded by the thrill of Pan.

Quotes

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras (570 BC – 495 BC ) Greek Philosopher

Life has no blessing like a prudent Friend.

Euripides (480 BC – 406 BC ) Tragedian of Classical Athens

Be slow to fall into Friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.

Socrates (470 BC – 399 BC) Classic Greek Philosopher

No one is a Friend to his Friend who does not love in return.

Plato ( 428/427 or 424/423 BC – 348/347 BC ) Greek Ancient Philosopher

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle (384 BC– 322 BC), Ancient Greek Philosopher

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of Friendship.

Epicurus (341 BC – 270 BC), Ancient Greek Philosopher

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a Friend who is really a Friend.

Titus Maccius Plautus (254 BC – 184 BC ) Roman Playwright

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly embracing one another.

Titus Lucretius Carus (99 BC – 55 BC) Roman Poet & Philosopher

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Epictetus (c.50 – 135) Greek Stoic Philosopher

I don’t need a Friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

Plutarch (c. 46 – 120) Historic, Biographer & Essayist

Believe in your values and your rules, but never lord them over others... Learn the Truth, my Friend, but be careful not to make a fetish out of your truths.

Shamsi Tabrizi (1185 – 1250) Teacher

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there.

Jalāl ad-Dīn Rūmī (1207 – 1273) Poet, Scholar, theologian, & Sufi mystic

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true Friendship.

Thomas Aquinas (1225 – 1274) Priest, Philosopher, Theologian & Jurist

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Jean de La Fontaine (1621 – 1695) Poet & Fabulist

Plato is my Friend; Aristotle is my Friend; But my greatest Friend is Truth.

Isaac Newton (1642 – 1727) Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer, Theologian & Author

Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives.

Alexander Dumas (1802 – 1870) Writer

A man’s Friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Charles Darwin (1809 – 1882) Naturalist, Geologist & Biologist

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my Friends?

Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865) President of the United States of America

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.

Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862 ) Essayist, Poet, Philosopher, Naturalist & Historian

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its Friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their Friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roaside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

William James (1842 – 1910) Philosopher & Psychologist

It is not a lack of Love, but a lack of Friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 – 1900) Philosopher, Cultural Critic, Composer, Poet & Philologist

A Friend is what the heart needs all the time.

Henry Van Dyke (1852 – 1933) Author, Educator & Clergyman

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 really alone.

Vincent van Gogh (1853 – 1890) Impressionist painter

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true Friendship.

Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955) Theoretical Physicist

Walking with a Friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Helen Keller (1880 – 1968) Deaf-Blind Author, Political Activist & Lecturer

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Khalil Gibran (1883 – 1931) Poet, Writer, Philosopher

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true Friends will leave footprints in your heart.

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 – 1962) American political figure, First Lady of USA, Diplomat & Activist

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true Friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Paramahansa Yogananda (1893 – 1952) Indian Yogi

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true Friendship.

Clive Staples Lewis (1898 – 1963) Writer & Lay Theologian

One measure of Friendship consists not in the number of things Friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

Clifton Fadiman (1904 – 1999) Intellectual, Author & Editor

One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, Friendship, indignation and compassion.

Simone de Beauvoir (1908 – 1986) Writer, Intellectual, Philosopher, Political Activist & Feminist

Without Friends the world is but a wilderness.

Francis Bacon (1909 – 1992) Painter

Time doesn’t take away from Friendship, nor does separation.

Tennesse Williams (1911 – 1983 ) Playwright

Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my Friend.

Albert Camus (1913 – 1960) Philosopher, Author & Journalist

If it’s very painfurl for you to criticize your Friends, you are safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.

Alice Miller (1923 – 2010) Psychologist, psychoanalyst & Philosopher

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, Friendship is never anything but sharing.

Elie Wiesel (1928 – 2016) Writer, Professor, Political Activist & Nobel Laureate

A Friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.

Maya Angelou (1928 – 2014) Poet, Singer, Writer and Civil Rights Activist

There is not a word yet, for old Friends who’ve just met.

Jim Henson (1936 – 1990) Artist, Cartoonist & Puppeteer

Can miles truly separate you from Friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?

Richard Bach (1936 – ) Writer

Being honest may not get you a lot of Friends but it will always get you the right ones.

John Lennon (1940 – 1980) Singer, Songwriter & Peace Activist

Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop Friendship?

Dalai Lama (1940 – ) Spiritual Leader

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It is not something you learn in school.

But if you haven’t learned the meaning of Friendship you really haven’t learned anything.

Muhammad Ali (1942 – 2016 ) Boxer, Activist & Philanthropist

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence.

A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.

Octavia E. Butler (1947 – 2006) Writer

The Friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.

Barbara Kingsolver (1955 – ) Novelist, Essayist & Poet

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