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Daily Question, July 7

What qualities am I grateful for in a friend?

  • Malag

    Trustworthy, empathetic, supportive, willing to be helped where needed, good talker, shared values but can see things differently.

  • Ose
    I am grateful to be allowed to get to know the friend. So grateful if friends find time to cook together and share a meal and enjoy being together. I am deeply grateful for the ability to forgive. I am grateful for openness to share joyful and happy moments as well as difficult ones, should these arise. I am grateful for truthfulness and being true. A friend´s humor and playfulness helps to lighten up. I am grateful if a friend takes time to listen and tries not to judge. I cherish honesty and ...

    I am grateful to be allowed to get to know the friend. So grateful if friends find time to cook together and share a meal and enjoy being together. I am deeply grateful for the ability to forgive. I am grateful for openness to share joyful and happy moments as well as difficult ones, should these arise. I am grateful for truthfulness and being true. A friend´s humor and playfulness helps to lighten up. I am grateful if a friend takes time to listen and tries not to judge. I cherish honesty and hope that a friend allows partaking in what moves him/her as well as allows me to share what moves me and so to be close with each other, sharing life as it comes with a warm and open heart.

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  • their ability to bear me – with a warm heart and an honest smile on their face

  • Pollyanna Gladwell

    The quality that I am grateful for in all my friends is liberal-mindedness. Sexism, homophobia, racism, anti-semitism and other prejudicial points view have been deal-breakers when they surfaced in past friendships.

    And although current friends may have differing political sympathies or affiliations, none of them would support Donald Trump or Boris Johnson.

  • Don Jones

    Honesty and presence.

  • I have many friends, each with different qualities. There is a common quality: empathy, listening, showing up friendship with gestures, even in moments of social distancing and with a facial mask. But first of all I am grateful because these friends exist.

  • Hot Sauce

    To me, the qualities I like in a friend are love, loyalty, forgiveness, humor, empathy, sympathy, and generosity.

  • Linda

    A good listener. One who asks questions and listens to the answers rather than just waiting to talk.
    I have some lovely friends who are good listeners and bless my life immensely.

  • Carla

    The ability to listen attentively is invaluable. Mutual investment in hearing out the other’s goals, dreams, hurts, deaths & spiritual resurrections. Willingness to journey with me for the long haul of many years; appreciation for humor & ability to challenge me to grow & see & do more. To be faithful & loving.

  • Maria

    Unconditional love… I have lots of friends but true friends love and accept me “warts and all”
    Knowing you can truly be urself in their company.

  • Maeve

    Someone who really sees me with appreciation and delight. Someone who can listen well. Someone who has warmth and a good sense of humor. Someone who sticks with me even when I am rude and obnoxious. Someone who will gently but firmly call me on my crap.

    Someone who is kind. Someone who is honest.

  • Zenith

    I agree with Mark. Maturity is really important. Of course, having something in common also helps.

  • Mark Piper

    Maturity. Maturity is the tall, wide, trunk of a tree and one cannot get that healthy, tall, wide, trunk without a little time, and without good roots that hold it in place, and drink up the life giving water under the soil; roots that enable maturity include patience, love, kindness, discretion, knowledge, and light-heartedness.

  • Michele

    Loyalty comes to mind. Laughter, kindness, honesty. My closest friends we’re going on 40 yrs since we’ve known each other. I’m grateful for their friendship and love.

  • Dickrichie

    Trustworthy. To know they’re always there even though we may not see each other for some length of time. To be able to discuss success & hurdles in each others lives.

  • Katrina
    My two best friends, well we have been best friends since childhood. So part of what we share is history, family, lifetime knowledge of who we were and who we are, generationally. Not all friendships are like that, nor should they be. This just happens to be the case for us and it's a large part of what gives us our loyalty and faithfulness. We are not bound by blood or family as we are not sisters, so we don't share the same familial DNA, and that's what gives us our variety and allows us to br...

    My two best friends, well we have been best friends since childhood. So part of what we share is history, family, lifetime knowledge of who we were and who we are, generationally. Not all friendships are like that, nor should they be. This just happens to be the case for us and it’s a large part of what gives us our loyalty and faithfulness. We are not bound by blood or family as we are not sisters, so we don’t share the same familial DNA, and that’s what gives us our variety and allows us to bring both freshness and familiarity to the connection.

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  • Ineke Bennink

    De vriend die, goed kan luisteren en mij kan inspireren en stimuleren!

    • Michele

      translation:
      The friend who can listen well and inspire and stimulate me!

  • Howie Geib
    They laugh at my jokes, are interested in my stories, bring out the best in me and generally make me look good! Seriously, I love my friends, and for so many qualities, but generally I think it must be that they continually remind me of who I really am in the world, as my truest friends don’t seem to see my internal contradictions and can pierce my confusion and speak directly to my true self therefore bringing me there as well. I am a rower, and there is a magic in a double boat when two can ...

    They laugh at my jokes, are interested in my stories, bring out the best in me and generally make me look good! Seriously, I love my friends, and for so many qualities, but generally I think it must be that they continually remind me of who I really am in the world, as my truest friends don’t seem to see my internal contradictions and can pierce my confusion and speak directly to my true self therefore bringing me there as well. I am a rower, and there is a magic in a double boat when two can become as one…finding that you can go forever. True friends feel like that.

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  • Trish

    My most meaningful relationships are with people who challenge me with love & kindness. They truly want me to grow into the person God made me to be. They invite me to share my wounds with them & they love me for my beauty & my ugly. Loyalty is critical in friendship. Betrayals can be devastating (but are also fodder for growth.) Laughter & a spirit filled with fun is most appreciated. This life can be heavy & lightness feels so good.

  • devy

    Trustworthy , compassion, empathetic, an ear to listen, understanding..can phone anytime . Our relationships is reciprocal..I am the same to them.

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