Excess of obligation may lose a friend.
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of each other .
Friendship is a very ancient thing and yet modern.
Still the value of friendship in the modern times has reduced as compared to earlier times.
C. S. Lewis for example, in his The Four Loves, writes:
“To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves; the crown of life and the school of virtue. The modern world, in comparison, ignores it. We admit of course that besides a wife and family a man needs a few 'friends'. But the very tone of the admission, and the sort of acquaintanceships which those who make it would describe as 'friendships', show clearly that what they are talking about has very little to do with that 'Philía' which Aristotle classified among the virtues or that 'Amicitia' on which Cicero wrote a book.”
In this era of "-ization", we find more frenemies than true friends...a proverbial wolf in sheep’s clothing in the world of friendships. Most people have encountered a frenemy at one time or another, either at school, at work, or lurking in their neighborhood.
Nothing can be more disgraceful than to be at war with him with whom you have lived in terms of friendship.
To do a little good is more than to accomplish great conquests.
Some relations are like Tom and Jerry. They tease each other, knock down each other, irritate each other but cannot live without each other. This may sound funky, but this is how friendship should be!
The bond between the friends should be great. The friend is actually a someone who knows all your mistakes and weakness and still thinks you are completely amazing!
But he is also a one who does not compromise with his virtues and even does not let you to do it either. He is a one who refrains you from doing wrong.The moment we indulge ourself in friendship, the earth is metamorphosed; there is no winter, and no night; all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish, — all duties even; nothing fills the proceeding eternity but the forms all radiant of beloved persons.
Friendship should not be treated daintily but with the roughest courage. When it is real, it is not a glass thread or frostwork, but the solidest thing we know.
We are holden to our friends by every sort of tie, by pride, by fear, by hope, by hate, by admiration, by every circumstance and badge and trifle, but we can scarce believe that so much character can subsist in another as to draw us by love.
Friendship is the only cure for hatred ,the only guarantee for peace.
The conventional wisdom is that good friendships enhance an individual's sense of happiness and overall well-being. But a number of solid studies support the notion that strong social supports improve prospects for good health and longevity. Conversely, it has been shown that loneliness and lack of social supports are linked to an increased risk of heart disease, viral infections, and cancer as well as higher mortality rates. Researchers have even termed friendship networks a “behavioral vaccine” that protects health and mental health.
