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crunch
Social climber
CO
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Fran and I will be there! Looking forward to this! I'll send an email, too.
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eeyonkee
Trad climber
Golden, CO
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I don't know the man, but I live in Boulder and know a bunch of stories. Seems like the kind of birthday worth celebrating.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Well Paul is actually (slightly) older than me. I like Colorado and the crowd over there seems pretty cool, but alas, I'm a no show.
Happy Birthday to Paul
Sibley a fabulous event to ya.
Not neebee
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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This is an open gathering honoring community and friendship that also coincides with Paul's birthday so please feel free to attend and join in the fun.
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nutstory
climber
Ajaccio, Corsica, France
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One more candle on the cake… ;-)
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Roy- Please post the treatise on friendship that you prepared for this fantastic event if you would be so kind.
Cheers
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Paul Sibley gathered us to celebrate friendship. Everyone here tonight who values friendship, raise a hand!
Everybody gotta have a dream.
In the pursuit of that dream, there is striving (which is to endeavor or contend) and sometimes, but not always, there is thriving (which is to flourish or prosper).
In the end, thriving is never guaranteed, so it seems to me that it is the striving that matters most.
Indeed, one of the great rewards of life is to share the process and the effort of striving, especially with friends.
So what is friendship?
Many of the literary giants have sought to answer this question.
I've collected a string of aphorisms about friendship.
After I read each quote, I'll tell you who wrote it, and if listed, when.
To begin:
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Anaïs Nin, (March 1937).
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
C. S. Lewis (1960).
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Cicero
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
Richard Bach (1977).
Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Elbert Hubbard, (1927).
Never explain — your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyhow.
Elbert Hubbard, The Motto Book (1907).
Love is only chatter,
Friends are all that matter.
Gelett Burgess, (1901)
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, (1841)
Our triumphs seem hollow unless we have friends to share them, and our failures are made bearable by their understanding.
James Rachels, (1999)
But remember! When it comes to friends, it's not how much time you spend with them, just how you spend it!
Eiichiro Oda
Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them.
Publilius Syrus, (100 BC)
Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
Proverbs, XXVII. verse 17.
Of two friends, one is always the slave of the other, although frequently neither acknowledges the fact to himself.
Mikhail Lermontov
Choose your friends, then treat them as friends; do not regard them like slaves or servants, but associate with them frankly and simply and generously; not saying one thing of them and thinking something else.
The Emperor Julian
Friends are like melons. Shall I tell you why?
To find one good, you must a hundred try.
Claude Mermet
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
Charles Caleb Colton, (1820).
Friendship is often outgrown; and his former child's clothes will no more fit a man than some of his former friendships.
Sir Arthur Helps, (1847).
Defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.
Jean Hérault, as quoted in 1788, also attributed to Voltaire.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Oscar Wilde, (1891)
He cast off his friends, as a huntsman his pack;
For he knew, when he pleas'd, he could whistle them back.
Oliver Goldsmith, (1774).
The difficulty is not so much to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
Henry Home, Lord Kames, (1761). This quote is often misattributed to Homer.
A real friendship should not fade as time passes, and should not weaken because of space separation.
John Newton, Ph.D.,
A friendship that can be ended didn't ever start.
Mellin de Saint-Gelais
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love, and to be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence.
Sydney Smith, (1855)
Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
Charles Péguy, "The Search for Truth", Basic Verities (1943),
To hear him speak, and sweetly smile
You were in Paradise the while.
Sir Philip Sidney. Attributed also to Spenser and Roydon.
Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet.
John Selden, (1689).
I love everything that's old, — old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
Oliver Goldsmith, (1771)
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, (1841)
If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.
Zig Ziglar (2009)
Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.
Erwin T. Randall
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow,
We will stand by each other, however it blow.
Longfellow's translation of Simon Dach
An open foe may prove a curse,
But a pretended friend is worse.
John Gay
'Tis thus that on the choice of friends
Our good or evil name depends.
John Gay
Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.
Charles Dickens
Ah, how good it feels!
The hand of an old friend.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
And in closing:
(point to the crowd)
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870)
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steve s
Trad climber
eldo
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Feb 10, 2017 - 06:25pm PT
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For a beer cooler of course
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steve s
Trad climber
eldo
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Feb 10, 2017 - 06:27pm PT
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Lots of climbing experience right there.
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steve s
Trad climber
eldo
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Feb 10, 2017 - 06:30pm PT
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Former IAS guides at Sibleyville
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