Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.
A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
To see a friend who has suffered the loss of all things begin again with trust and love, gives us strength to continue on.
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
A friend is what the heart needs all the time.
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
Some of the choicest blessings of my life have been the close friendships I have experienced over the years. Often, these friendships have been forged in the fires of shared experience.
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