how will you discribe FRIENDSHIP?

Friendship is is a term used to denote co-operative and supportive behaviour between two or more people. It can be taken to mean a supportive relationship which involves mutual knowledge, esteem, and affection. A friendship that can be ended didn't ever start. Mellin de Saint-Gelais, Oeuvres poétiques A friend in need's a friend indeed. Pure Morning, a song by Placebo A friend loves at all times, and kinsfolk are born to share adversity. The Bible, Proverbs 17:17 Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. Anaïs Nin, Diary entry, March 1937 Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends. Jacques Delille, Malheur at Pitié (Canto I), 1803 Friendship is not for merriment but for stern reproach when friends go astray. Tiruvalluvar, Tirukkural: 784 He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. Ali ibn Abi Talib, A Hundred Sayings If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend. Still Remains, a song by Stone Temple Pilots I get by with a little help from my friends. With a Little Help from My Friends, a song by The Beatles Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success — yours or his. Franklin P. Jones, Saturday Evening Post, 29 November 1953 Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. The Bible, Proverbs 18:24 Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends. William Butler Yeats, The Municipal Gallery Re-Visited Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace. Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, 1923 Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. Richard Bach, Illusions, The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing, and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. The Bible, Hebrews 13:2 Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Attributed to Sun Tzu, may also be an interpretation of text contained in The Prince Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up." The Bible, Ecclesiastes Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. The Bible, John 15:13