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

Let a person uplift himself by his own Self;
Let him not lower himself.
The Self alone is one's friend,
And the Self alone is one's enemy.

~Bhagavad Gita

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.

- Oprah Winfrey