(The book is out in the United Kingdom, and will be released in the United States in January.) All of these numbers (and many non-numeric insights about friendship) appear in his new book, Friends: Understanding the Power of Our Most Important Relationships. He’s also studied the seven factors people use to evaluate whether someone has the potential to become a friend, and the average number of hours it takes for an acquaintance to become a close friend. For instance, Dunbar’s number turns out to be less like an absolute numerical threshold than a series of concentric circles, each standing for qualitatively different kinds of relationships. (The proposed number is 150.) But after spending his decades-long career studying the complexities of friendship, he’s discovered many more numbers that shape our close relationships. "Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified.The Oxford evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar is best known for his namesake “Dunbar’s number,” which he defines as the number of stable relationships people are cognitively able to maintain at once. 'I wish I were there to be doing it, too.'" A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
"'I wonder what Piglet is doing,' thought Pooh. Often, we forget to tell those we love most how important to us so if you read a quote below that resonates, why not send it to a friend to remind them how much you value them. It's hard to put into words sometimes how much good friends mean to us so we've found some of the loveliest quotes from literature that sum up exactly how we feel.įrom children's books (is there any friendship more perfect than that between Winnie-the-Pooh and Piglet?) to classic literature, the writers below have all nailed that special feeling of meeting someone who gets us completely.
They’re there for you through the good and bad times - and everything in between.
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