There sure are a lot of these 'instant' products on the market. Instant coffee, instant tea, instant pudding, instant cereal... instant dislike.
Charles M. SchulzRead
Just thinking about a friend makes you want to do a happy dance, because a friend is someone who loves you in spite of your faults.
Interpretation
A true friend brings joy and unconditional support regardless of one's imperfections.
This quote emphasizes the joy that friendship brings and the acceptance that true friends offer. It suggests that simply thinking of a friend can uplift your spirits, highlighting the importance of these relationships in our lives, where love and acceptance transcend flaws and mistakes.
In practice
During a speech at a wedding to highlight the importance of friendship in relationships.
There sure are a lot of these 'instant' products on the market. Instant coffee, instant tea, instant pudding, instant cereal... instant dislike.
Well, I know about loneliness. I won't talk about it, but I was very lonely after the war. I know what it feels like to spend a whole weekend all by yourself and no one wants you at all.
What's this? That little red-haired girl dropped her pencil... Gee... It's got teeth marks all over it... She nibbles her pencil... She's human!
Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry...I'm here. The flood waters will recede, the famine will end, the sun will shine tomorrow, and I will always be here to take care of you.
Sometimes I lie awake at night thinking about all the dumb things I do every day... If I live to be eighty and I do ten dumb things each day... That would be about two hundred and ninety thousand dumb things... When you add up all the dumb things you do, it's best to use round figures.
Dear Sweetheart, Without you my days are endless. Days seem like weeks... Weeks feel like months... Months like years... Years like centuries... Centuries like... You get the idea.
Friends: not one. Just a few acquaintances who imagine they feel something for me and who might be sorry if a train ran over me and the funeral was on a rainy day.
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.
Farewell, and may the blessing of Elves and Men and all Free Folk go with you. May the stars shine upon your faces!
Without a doubt, my richest relationships are my long-term friendships with musical partners, because we make music together. That's what we love to do with our lives.
Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
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