Strive to have friends

[pioneer]

I like this line about friendship.

“True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island..to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.” - Baltazar Gracian

[hazel]

this too is good:

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person! Having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out just as they are, chaff and grain together. Certain that a faithful hand will take them and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.-- George Eliot

[..yadz..]

"There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends."  -- Hillaire Belloc