Friendship is the greatest single feeling mankind can experience and the greatest gift we can give to another person. With it we become stronger and more creative; more caring toward ourselves and toward others, and much more humane.
This wonderful, beautiful, diverse world we share can also be a fearful place. We have lived through some form of crisis, terror, or war which has left its mark on us whether at first hand or via media coverage. So now, more than ever perhaps, the world is in need of friendship to replace the “eye for an eye” attitude that blots out the sun. Friendship begins within ourselves and those closest to us, but from these modest roots it is capable of stretching out to the four corners of the globe and enriching the lives of everyone in this world.
Here, my friends, we shall explore the gift of friendship in all its beautiful guises. Let’s start making friends today and begin a journey that will scatter the seeds of this inspirational bond to all our new friends and neighbors around the world…
And this is for you, J. M. S.
Everything apart from friendship yields only momentary pleasures.
If one can love one’s self and others, then this is the truest form of universal friendship.
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
Before borrowing money from a friend, first decide which of the two of you need most.
The most difficult thing to articulate properly, to make sound interesting, or have understood is describing your friendship with another to someone who does not know your friends.
Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds.
Friendship is expressed in compassionate acts and loving kindness.