Friendship

If you would have wisdom, you can have it only from one source. You don’t get to pick and choose. Any idea of how things are that doesn’t embrace life as it is, and human beings as they are, will inevitably fail and will fail repeatedly. Are you tired yet?

Trust is the first and perhaps primary element of friendship. I trust everyone, at least when I have been in contact with them long enough, because I totally ignore social image. Each person has their own nature, and they also have their social image. These tend not to connect. The reason we cannot trust each other and the reason many people come to trust me, is this self nature versus social image split.

“Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.” Mark Twain (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)

“One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.” Clifton Fadiman (American radio Host, Author and Editor 1904-1999)