Friendship Says

The greatest sweetener of human life is: To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
A friend drops their plans when you're in trouble, shares joy in your accomplishments, feels sad when you're in pain. A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice --- but when you don't follow it, they still respect and love you.

The heart may think it knows better: The senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: A hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.

Have a friend who tells a tale with statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical. For her accounts of happenings are full of disconnections; She starts them in the middle, and proceeds in all directions.

I'm always there to tell people that their life is not that bad. I wish it was easy to follow that advice It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.