Friendship inevitably affects the human body as well as the spirit. I doubt if it is possible to hate anybody and be completely healthy. Physicians agree that resentment fosters poison in the human systems. It is not possible to love everybody, or even to like everybody, but at least, when there is no friendly response the robe of tolerant indifference can be put on.
Friendship is an intangible thing, a kind of circle which completely surrounds another person,taking him in with all his good points and all his bad, enveloping him in his entirety. Above all, friendship means immeasurable capacity for forgiveness. It means the ability to check off resentment, rather than let it persist and poison the spirit. Robert Louis Stevenson wrote,
"He is a green hand at life who cannot forgive any mortal thing".There are no more enduring thing in life than real friendship. If it is not enduring, then it is not real, and has never found its way from far-flung fields of an acquaintance to the inner circle of devotion.
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