By friendship you mean the greatest love, the greatest usefulness, the most open communication, the noblest sufferings, the heartiest counsel, and the greatest union of minds of which brave men and women are capable. --Jeremy Taylor
As Thyself
Strange-- but the more I know of you,
the better I like myself.
You always see to take the book
of me down off the shelf,
and turn the pages of my mind
until you make me see
the finer, bigger, happier sort of
person I might be.
I grow an inch or two in height
each time you look my way.
You exhilarate my ego--
I feel happiest this way.
And quite the nicest part of all--
and this is very true--
the more I like myself, the more
I love the world and You.
--Helen Marshall
