Aristotle said that the aim of education is to equip us to make noble use of our leisure: and this fine sentiment implies that leisure is properly an opportunity to enjoy what makes us flourish: to pursue the arts, to reflect, to deepen understanding, to further friendships, and to pursue excellence.
Sir Ludwig Guttman, founder of the Paralympic Games, in his closing address, thanked Australia and stated that "What has been the most gratifying achievement is that the First Commonwealth Paraplegic Games have fulfilled the aims and ideals of the Stoke Mandeville Games in furthering friendship and understanding among various nations of the Commonwealth".
The statement from Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that Mr. Karzai's visit "will contribute to further enhancing friendship and close cooperative ties" between the two countries.
"To lose someone who I spoke to quite a lot through my England experiences, who always made you feel better about yourself, in that sort of tragic way, having not had a chance to further our friendship, was devastating.
Make sure your feelings develop no further than friendship.
Even if it progresses no further than friendship, at least you have a good friend in the making.
Further, his friendships with the avant-garde in various centres of Europe Gertrude Stein, Marcel Duchamp, Walter Gropius, Salvador Dalí, Federico Garcia Lorca, André Breton, and others—stimulated his interest in the Surrealist movement, and by 1936 he had abandoned architecture as a career.
The other day, I told him I still liked him and that it'd be cool if we took our friendship further.
"You can think of this as a deposit for the further building of friendship with the friendly American people," he said.
