The Little Book Of Friendship

Friendships are like flowers. If you take care of them, they grow and bloom until you have a beautiful garden! The Little Book of Friendship shows young readers what they need to know to make a friend and to be one too.

'There is no greater desert or wilderness than to be without true friends.' In this beautiful collection, Ruskin Bond puts together his favourite sayings on friends and friendship. From his own observations, recorded over the years in his diaries, to famous sayings by celebrated writers, poets and philosophers, this is a delightful compilation of thoughts on love, friendship and family. Told with the heartwarming simplicity that characterizes Ruskin Bond, this book, much like a good friend, is one you can turn to at any time, for comfort and company.

An evocative and heartwarming collection of essays and anecdotes from great writers and celebrated thinkers, O's Little Book of Love & Friendship will captivate anyone whose life has ever been touched by a lasting friendship or an unforgettable romance. With essays and anecdotes from some of the best contributors to O, The Oprah Magazine, this charming collection warms the heart and stirs the soul. Among the highlights: a frank, funny, and freewheeling conversation between two of the world's great BFFs, Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King; Abigail Thomas on the ecstasy and agony of a first date; Elizabeth Strout on sharing the words that made her heart crack; Susanna Sonnenberg on reconnecting with her adored sister; Walter Kirn on love lessons learned the hard way; and more. A perfect gift for anyone's nearest and dearest, O's Little Book of Love & Friendship is a treasure box that readers will turn to again and again.

Friendships are essential to human happiness and well-being. They can bring laughter, joy, stimulation as well as provide support, comfort and solace, but like all relationships they need to be nurtured to grow and survive. Like the other little books in this series this is a book to offer help and advice, packed with inspiring quotes and practical tips about nurturing your friendships and how to form new ones. The nuances of friendships can be hard to grasp, to be a good friend is a skill to be learned, so this book in itself can be a friend to turn to.

After years of heartbreaks and disappointments, Joyce decided to share experiences she encountered with unhealthy friendships, that caused mental, physical and emotional pain. She wants to help the reader discern the difference between toxic friends and real friends. After a long look in the mirror, she found that sometimes we have to look at oneself and be accountable for some of the disappointing relationships in our lives.

Compiled from all three volumes of Life's Little Instruction Book and other books by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book: On Friendship is a perfect gift for a special friend or can be given in the place of a traditional greeting card.

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If you know a little girl or a pair of best friends searching for things to do during the school holidays or at the weekend then you need My Little Pink Book of Friendship! My Little Pink Book of Friendship is crammed with big ideas on having fun! Packed full of things to make, yummy recipes to try, and fab fashion tips, this book is a must-have for girls. Its boredom-busting ideas can be tackled by several friends together, a pair of best friends or by an individual. The fabulous activities are inexpensive and accessible, making it the ideal source of inspiration for school holiday activities. My Little Pink Book of Friendship is an inspiring read, which encourages girls to be proud of who they are and would make an ideal present to give a special friend.

Our girlfriends are the coolest people we know-but they can also be the angriest, craziest, gloomiest, and most disenchanted people we've ever encountered! Friendship between women can be complicated. But who else to expose both the light and dark side of this delicate relationship but the gang of Angry Little Girls-the spunky, mouthy, comic characters who speak out with humor and frankness about the issues girls care about. These edgy little dames tell it exactly how it is: that true friends enrich our lives in priceless ways (even when they are being annoying!).

Famous literary friendships such as those between H.L. Mencken and James Joyce, Gustave Flaubert and Ivan Turgenev, and Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore are examined in this magnificent collection of stories, legends, poems, essays, letters, and memoirs that illuminate the breadth and depth of friendship in all its human complexity.