“You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
From “A Little Life” by Hanya Yanagihara
Thank you to Karen Maezen Miller for pointing out this lovely passage.
Image: Beautiful flowers for Hyun Mee Young and Roger by Thai Jasmine via Flickr
LOVE.
Oh, I like this. Yes.
Oh, this is such amazing advice.
I love this. I have done this, unconsciously.
Active communication and random acts of kindness…Thx, Rudri! Trish