The Meaning of Friendship | Our Sunday Talks

Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

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🗓️ 12 October 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Podcast Manuscript: I used to think that friendship meant happiness. I have learned that it means discipline. Look around how we may, we shall never find a friend without faults, imperfections, traits that vex, grieve, and annoy us. Strive as we will, we ourselves can never fully fulfill the ideal of us that is in our friend's mind: we inevitably come short of it. Yet let us not give up friendship, though we have found this to be true.

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1:44.9	Today's talk is edited and adapted from
1:47.9	What is Worthwhile by Anna Robertson Brown, published in 1893.
2:00.0	I used to think that friendship meant happiness.
2:05.0	I have learned that it means discipline.
2:08.3	Look around how we may.
2:10.5	We shall never find a friend without false, imperfections,
2:15.1	traits that vex grieve and annoy us.
2:18.3	Strive as we will. We ourselves can never fulfill the ideal of us that is in our friend's mind.
2:25.3	We inevitably come short of it.
2:28.3	Yet let us not give up friendship, though we have found this to be true. To have a friend is to have one of the
2:37.5	sweetest gifts that life can bring. To be a friend is to have a Solomon tender education of the soul from day to day.
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