The Value of Friendship
There is hardly anything that can make one happier than to feel that one counts for something with other people. What matters here is not numbers, but intensity. In the long run, human relationships are the most important thing in life; the modern "efficient" person can do nothing to change this, nor can the demigods and lunatics who know nothing about human relationships. God uses us in dealing with others. Everything else is very close to hubris. Of course, one can cultivate human relationships all too consciously in an attempt to mean something to other people, as I have been realizing lately in the letters of Gabriele von BuLow-Humboldt; it may lead to an unrealistic cult of the human. I mean, in contrast to that, that people are most important than anything else in life. That certainly does not mean undervaluing the world of things and practical efficiency. But what is the finest book, or picture, or our estate, to me, compared to my wife, my parents, or my friend?
Friendship is essential to the soul.--Cooper, Coleman, Just and Love
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