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Aristotle - Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. · the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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  Welcome to the Daily Quote podcast, designed to kick start
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  your day in a positive way. I'm your host, Andrew Mcgibbon
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  for July 30th. Today is International Day of
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  Friendship, a holiday that might sound like something Hallmark
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  invented to sell more greeting cards, but it's actually a
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  United Nations observance. Established in 2011, the idea
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  was simple but profound. Promote friendship between
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  peoples, countries and cultures as a way to inspire peace and
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  build bridges across our differences.
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  What I love about this holiday is that it recognizes something
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  we all know, but sometimes forget, that friendship isn't
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  just a nice to have in life, it's essential.
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  Good friends don't just make the good times better, they make the
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  hard times bearable. They're the people who show up
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  when you need them, who celebrate your wins without
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  jealousy, and who tell you the truth even when it's not what
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  you want to hear. Speaking of truth telling
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  friends, today's quote comes from the ancient Greek
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  philosopher Aristotle, who once said friendship is a single soul
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  dwelling in two bodies. Now, Aristotle wasn't being
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  overly romantic or mystical here.
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  He was being precise. He spent a lot of time thinking
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  about different types of friendship, and what he
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  discovered was that true friendship goes beyond just
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  enjoying someone's company or finding them useful.
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  It's about a genuine connection where two people truly
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  understand each other, support each other's growth, and share
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  something deeper than surface level interests.
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  Think about your closest friends for a moment.
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  Aren't they the people who just get you?
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  The ones where you can sit in comfortable silence, or finish
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  each other's sentences, or laugh until your sides hurt over
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  something that wouldn't be funny to anyone else?
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  That's what Aristotle was talking about, that rare
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  connection where the boundaries between you and me become a
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  little blurred because you're so In Sync.
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  But here's the thing about this kind of friendship, It doesn't
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  happen overnight. It's built through shared
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  experiences, honest conversations, showing up
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  consistently, and yes, sometimes working through disagreements.
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  It's choosing to invest in someone else's life and letting
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  them invest in yours. So today on International Day of
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  Friendship, maybe reach out to someone who's been that kind of
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  friend to you. Send a text, make a call, or if
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  you're feeling really radical, write an actual letter.
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  Let them know you appreciate them.
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  And if you're looking to build deeper friendships, be the kind
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  of friend you'd want to have reliable, genuine, and ready to
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  share your soul with another. That's going to do it.
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  For today, I'm Andrew McGivern. Signing off for now but I'll be
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  back tomorrow. Same pod time, same pod station
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  with another daily quote.