"Friendship is a term used to denote co-operative and supportive behaviour between two or more social entities. In this sense, the term connotes a relationship which involves mutual knowledge, esteem, and affection. Friends will welcome each other's company and exhibit loyalty towards each other, often to the point of altruism. Their tastes will usually be similar and may converge, and they will share enjoyable activities. They will also engage in mutually helping behavior, such as exchange of advice and the sharing of hardship. A friend is someone who may often demonstrate reciprocating and reflective behaviors. Yet for many, friendship is nothing more than the trust that someone or something will not harm them. Value that is found in friendships is often the result of a friend demonstrating on a consistent basis:
- the tendency to desire what is best for each other.
- sympathy and empathy.
- honesty, perhaps in situations where it may be difficult for others to speak the truth.
- mutual understanding.
(wikipedia)
Quotes
The Christian Gospels state that Jesus Christ declared, "
No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends." (John 15:13)
"The only pure love in the world is that between best friends" -- TJ Sanders
"Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say." -- Anon
"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart." -- Anon
"I believe in angels, the kind that heaven sends. I'm surrounded by angels, but I call them my best friends." -- Anon
"A friend is someone who knows all about you... and loves you anyway." -- Anon
"Friends are the people God gave us to keep us company... Best friends are the siblings God forgot to give us..." -- Anon
"Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure." -- Jewish saying
"Hold a true friend with both your hands." -- Nigerian Proverb
"Friendship needs no words..." -- Dag Hammarskjold.
"A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself." -- James Boswell
"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives." -- Euripides
"A good friend is my nearest relation." -- Thomas Fuller
"Your friend is your needs answered." -- Kahil Gibran
"A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother." -- Homer
"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship." -- La Rochefoucauld
"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends whom we choose." -- Tehyi Hsieh
"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with." -- Mark Twain
"A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world." -- Leo Buscaglia
"It's the ones you can call up at 4:00 a.m. that really matter." -- Marlene Dietrich
"The language of friendship is not words but meanings." -- Henry David Thoreau
Conclusion
I'm stuck at the
middle of the pyramid.
It still hurts
so damn much.
