Dalai Lama on Friendship

“We have genuine friendship when it is based
on true human feeling, a feeling of closeness
in which there is a sense of sharing and connectedness.

I would call this type of friendship genuine
because it is not affected by the increase or decrease
of the individual’s wealth, status, or power.

The factor that sustains that friendship is whether or not
the two people have mutual feelings of love and affection.”

His Holiness, The Dalai Lama in The Path to Tranquility: Daily Wisdom

Prakriti (Nature) immediately becomes a friend of those who are befriended by Bhagavan (God).

-Swami Chidananda

To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine. For the eye is fastened on the life, and slights the circumstance.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson