Download or read book Girls Club written by Sally Clarkson and published by NavPress. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the gift of friendship! In a time when many women feel lonely and isolated, Girls’ Club calls us to embrace the delight and comfort that can be found in life-giving friendships with women— and to cultivate relationships that not only offer emotional affirmation and acceptance, but also inspire, educate, and stretch us to live out our God-given potential. Told through stories and encouragement based on the authors’ experiences—Sally, a seasoned mother and well beloved author; her daughter Sarah, an Oxford scholar and new mother; and her youngest daughter Joy, a professional young woman pursuing her doctorate—Girls’ Club will speak to the importance of cultivating deep and lasting friendship at every stage in life. Join Sally, Sarah, and Joy as they explore the power, difficulties, potential, beauty, and satisfaction of friendships that help us live purposeful, Godly lives and that satisfy our longing for meaningful and intimate companionship. Also available: The Girls’ Club Experience (9781496436115), a companion guide to help women plant and deepen the roots of friendship.

Download or read book Love Friendship and the Self written by Bennett W. Helm and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-01-07 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent Western thought has consistently emphasized the individualistic strand in our understanding of persons at the expense of the social strand. Thus, it is generally thought that persons are self-determining and autonomous, where these are understood to be capacities we exercise most fully on our own, apart from others, whose influence on us tends to undermine that autonomy. Love, Friendship, and the Self argues that we must reject a strongly individualistic conception of persons if we are to make sense of significant interpersonal relationships and the importance they can have in our lives. It presents a new account of love as intimate identification and of friendship as a kind of plural agency, in each case grounding and analyzing these notions in terms of interpersonal emotions. At the center of this account is an analysis of how our emotional connectedness with others is essential to our very capacities for autonomy and self-determination: we are rational and autonomous only because of and through our inherently social nature. By focusing on the role that relationships of love and friendship have both in the initial formation of our selves and in the on-going development and maturation of adult persons, Helm significantly alters our understanding of persons and the kind of psychology we persons have as moral and social beings.

Download or read book Love and Friendship written by Allan David Bloom and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Written with the erudition and wit that made The Closing of the American Mind a #1 best-seller, Love and Friendship is a searching examination of the basic human connections at the center of the greatest works of literature and philosophy throughout the ages." "In a spirited polemic directed at our contemporary culture, Allan Bloom argues that we live in a world where love and friendship are withering away. Science and moralism have reduced eros to sex. Individualism and egalitarianism have turned romantic relationships into contractual matters to be litigated. Survey research has made every variety of sexual behavior seem normal, and thus boring. In sex education classes, children learn how to use condoms, but not how to deal with the hopes and risks of intimacy. We no longer know how to talk and think about the peril and promise of attraction and fidelity." "What has been lost is what separates human beings from beasts - the power of the imagination, which can transform sex into eros. Our impoverished feelings are rooted in our impoverished language of love. To recover the danger, the strength, and the beauty of eros, we must study the great literature of love, in the hope of rekindling the imagination of beauty and virtue that fuels eros. We must love to learn, in order to learn to love again." "Like The Closing of the American Mind, this is an exhilarating journey of ideas in search of the truths that great writers and philosophers have offered about our most precious and perilous longings. Love and Friendship dissects Rousseau's invention of Romantic love, meant to provide a new basis for human connection, amid the atomism of bourgeois society, and exposes the reasons for its ultimate failure. Bloom tells of the Romantics' idea of the sublime and Freud's theory of sublimation. He takes us into the universe of Shakespeare's plays, where love is a natural phenomenon that gives rise to both the brightest hopes and the bitterest conflicts and disappointments. Finally, Bloom offers a fresh reading of the greatest work on eros, Plato's Symposium." "A profound analysis of the literature of eros from the Bible to Freud, Love and Friendship is a powerful book that will inspire as well as outrage, amuse as well as illuminate. The culmination of a lifetime spent thinking and writing about the most fundamental questions facing human beings, it will change forever how we think about our most personal relationships and our most intimate dreams and desires."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Download or read book Heart of a Loving Friendship written by Audrey Jeanne Roberts and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artist and writer Audrey Jeanne Roberts celebrates the bond of special friendships between women through heart-tugging devotions and meaningful Scripture verses that underscore the durable ties between friends. This book illuminates the facets of friendships that endure through life's ups and downs: strength, tenacity, loyalty and grace. Decorated with Roberts's charming calligraphy and watercolor illustrations, this title makes a wonderful gift.

Download or read book I Like You written by Sandol Stoddard and published by Clarion Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover folds over to become postal mailer.

Download or read book Friends of the Heart written by Emilie Barnes and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2001-04-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on the authors' experiences as well as the inspirational stories of others to celebrate friendship between women and present advice on how to stay in touch, foster spiritual relationships, and move from acquaintance into close friendship. Reprint.

Download or read book Together We Can written by Caryl Hart and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect picture book celebrating friendship, compassion, diversity and togetherness in the world. Our friends are all different, but one thing is true, each one is quite precious and that includes YOU! Award-winning Caryl Hart and Ali Pye have created a beautifully fun-filled and vibrant picture book showing children forming friendships and displaying kindness and compassion. The perfect rhyming read-aloud with joyous illustrations, this book celebrates diversity and inclusivity throughout and highlights how important togetherness is in our world.

Download or read book The Overflowing of Friendship written by Richard Godbeer and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2009-01-12 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When eighteenth-century American men described "with a swelling of the heart" their friendships with other men, addressing them as "lovely boy" and "dearly beloved," celebrating the "ardent affection" that knit their hearts in "indissoluble bonds of fraternal love," their families, neighbors, and acquaintances would have been neither surprised nor disturbed. Richard Godbeer's groundbreaking new book examines loving and sentimental friendships among men in the colonial and revolutionary periods. Inspired in part by the eighteenth-century culture of sensibility and in part by religious models, these relationships were not only important to the personal happiness of those involved but also had broader social, religious, and political significance. Godbeer shows that in the aftermath of Independence, patriots drafted a central place for male friendship in their social and political blueprint for the new republic. American revolutionaries stressed the importance of the family in the era of self-government, reimagining it in ways appropriate to a new and democratized era. They thus shifted attention away from patriarchal authority to a more egalitarian model of brotherly collaboration. In striving to explore the inner emotional lives of early Americans, Godbeer succeeds in presenting an entirely fresh perspective on the personal relationships and political structures of the period. Scholars have long recognized the importance of same-sex friendships among women, but this is the first book to examine the broad significance ascribed to loving friendships among men during this formative period of American history. Using an array of personal and public writings, The Overflowing of Friendship will transform our understanding of early American manhood as well as challenge us to reconsider the ways we think about gender in this period.

Download or read book O s Little Book of Love Friendship written by O, The Oprah Magazine and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Love Friendship written by Whit Stillman and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ***THE NOVEL OF THE HIT INDIE FILM*** 'If, like me, you like your Austen subversive, cruel, funny and outrageous, then you will love Stillman's Love & Friendship' The Times 'Lady Susan is finally getting some long overdue respect' New York Times 'Lady Susan remains deliciously wicked' Vogue With a pitch-perfect Austenian sensibility and wry social commentary, filmmaker and writer Whit Stillman cleverly re-imagines and completes one of our greatest writers' unfinished works. Love & Friendship is a sharp comedy of manners, and a fiendishly funny treat for Austen and Stillman fans alike. JANE AUSTEN'S FUNNIEST NOVEL IS ALSO HER LEAST KNOWN - UNTIL NOW. Impossibly beautiful, disarmingly witty, and completely self-absorbed: meet Lady Susan Vernon, both the heart and the thorn of Love & Friendship. Recently widowed with a daughter who's coming of age as quickly as their funds are dwindling, Lady Susan makes it her mission to find them wealthy husbands - and fast. But when her attempts to secure their futures result only in the wrath of a prominent conquest's wife and the title of 'most accomplished coquette in England', Lady Susan must rethink her strategy. Unannounced, she arrives at her brother-in-law's country estate. Here she intends to take refuge - in no less than luxury, of course - from the colorful rumors trailing her, while finding another avenue to 'I do'. Before the scandalizing gossip can run its course, though, romantic triangles ensue. A SPECIAL EDITION FEATURING JANE AUSTEN'S ORIGINAL NOVELLA AS ANNOTATED BY THE NARRATOR. PRAISE FOR LOVE & FRIENDSHIP THE FILM 'A RACY DELIGHT' Guardian ***** 'FIND ME A FUNNIER SCREEN STAB AT AUSTEN, AND I'M TEMPTED TO OFFER YOUR MONEY BACK PERSONALLY' Telegraph ***** 'TREMENDOUSLY WITTY' Independent ***** 'MAY JUST BE THE BEST JANE AUSTEN FILM EVER MADE' London Evening Standard *****

Download or read book The Key to My Heart written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nostalgic artwork of Gay Talbott Boassy is featured alongside uplifting quotes about the blessings of friendship. Pass on this treasure to the friends who hold the key to your heart.

Download or read book Made for Friendship written by Drew Hunter and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God made you for friendship. Friendship is one of the deepest pleasures of life. But in our busy, fast-paced, mobile world, we've lost this rich view of friendship and instead settled for shallow acquaintances based on little more than similar tastes or shared interests. Helping us recapture a vision of true friendship, pastor Drew Hunter explores God's design for friendship and what it really looks like in practice—giving us practical advice to cultivate the kinds of true friendships that lead to true and life-giving joy.

Download or read book Touch of Love to Celebrate Friendship written by Howard Books and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Touch of Love says it all. The human touch has the amazing ability to communicate. It speaks of love, encouragement, hope, joy, and sympathy -- emotions shared intimately with a good friend. A simple touch of love says it all. And the Touch you see here is especially designed to communicate heart to heart. This little book is a unique celebration of the wonder of friendship. A Touch of Love to Celebrate Friendship is a charming collection of stories, inspirational messages, poems, quotes, and scriptures that are sure to bless the heart of anyone you call friend.

Download or read book The Four Loves written by Clive Staples Lewis and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1991 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes the feelings and problems involved in different types of human love, including familial affection, friendship, passion, and charity.

Download or read book Heart Shaped Friendship written by Andréa Barros and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The speech delay in a girl with trisomy 21/Down syndrome creates love among her friends.

Download or read book O s Little Book of Love Friendship written by O the Oprah Magazine and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An evocative and heartwarming collection of essays and anecdotes from great writers and celebrated thinkers. The editors of O, The Oprah Magazine have combed through the publication's extensive archives to create O's Little Book of Love and Friendship, featuring the very best writing on those topics from 15 years of O. Among the highlights: a frank, funny, and freewheeling conversation between two of the world's great BFFs, Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King; Lisa Kogan on ghost-writing her pals' dating profiles; Amy Bloom on the tricky parts of love; Julie Orringer on knowing you've found The One; Meg Wolitzer on her glorious gang of four; Paige Williams on coming to terms with the tragic deaths of her sorority sisters; and more. A perfect gift for anyone's nearest and dearest, O's Little Book of Love and Friendship is destined to become a treasured volume that readers will turn to again and again"--

Download or read book Love Blossoms from Friendship A Timeless Bond written by Shu Chen Hou and published by KOKOSHUNGSAN®. This book was released on with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Love Blossoms from Friendship: A Timeless Bond" Discover the Extraordinary Journey of Love and Friendship Are you ready to embark on an unforgettable journey, where the seeds of friendship bloom into the exquisite flowers of love? "Love Blossoms from Friendship: A Timeless Bond" is a heartwarming tale that explores the magic of transforming close companionship into a profound and lasting love story. Nurturing the Roots of Friendship: In this captivating book, we delve into the power of genuine friendship. Learn how the bonds you've nurtured over time can evolve into something extraordinary. A Love Story Like No Other: This is not your typical love story. It's a celebration of the unique connection that friends share—a love that grows deeper, richer, and more beautiful with each passing day. Timeless Lessons: Gain insights into the timeless lessons of patience, trust, and communication that are the cornerstones of a relationship that starts as a friendship. The Blossom of Romance: Explore the moments when the heart races, when laughter turns into lingering glances, and when friendship evolves into a romance that defies time. A Blueprint for Your Love Story: "Love Blossoms from Friendship" isn't just a book; it's your roadmap to building a love story that stands the test of time. Discover the secrets of nurturing a bond that will be cherished for a lifetime. A Must-Read for Every Romantic Soul: Whether you're already in a friendship-based romance or dreaming of turning your closest companion into a lover, this book is your indispensable guide to crafting a love story for the ages. Celebrate Love, Friendship, and Forever: Join us as we celebrate the beauty of love, the strength of friendship, and the promise of a bond that lasts forever. If you believe in the power of love and friendship, this book is your invitation to a world where hearts entwine, souls unite, and love blossoms from the deepest roots of companionship. "Love Blossoms from Friendship: A Timeless Bond" is your key to unlocking the extraordinary potential within your closest relationships. Don't miss this chance to embark on a journey of love and friendship that will touch your heart and leave you inspired. Get your copy today and let the blossoming of love begin!