About FRIENDSHIP

Your friends are those who do not wait for things to happen in order to decide which attitude to take; they decide on the spur of the moment, even though they know it could be risky. They are free spirits who can change direction whenever life requires them to. They explore new paths, recount their adventures, and thus enrich both city and village via building communities. If they once took a wrong and dangerous path, they will never come to you and say ‘Don’t ever do that.’

Friendship is like a river: it flows far around rocks, adapts itself to valleys and mountains, occasionally turns into pool until the hollow in the ground is full and it can continue on its way. Just as the river never forgets that its goal is the sea, so friendship never forgets that its only reason for existing is to love other people.

"Avoid at all costs those who are only by your side in moments of sadness to offer consoling words. What they are actually saying to themselves is "I am stronger. I am wiser. I would not have taken that step.

Stay close to those who are by your side in happy times, because they do not harbor jealousy or envy in their hearts, only joy to see you happy.

Stay close to those who are not afraid to be vulnerable...

Stay close to those who, when you make a mistake, never said "I would have done it differently.

Stay close to those who say: 'Everything's fine as it is, but we still need to move on...

Stay close to those who sing, tell stories, and enjoy life, and whose eyes sparkle with happiness.

Because happiness is contagious and will always manage to find a solution, whereas logic can find only an explanation for the mistake made..."

from Manuscript Found in Accra by Paulo Coelho