Friend

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- - Unknown

Shared joy is double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.
- - Swedish proverb

Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath. And if
you have a friend who makes you laugh, spend lots and lots of time
with them.  
-- Unknown

A friend is someone who gives you total power to be yourself.
- Jim Morrison

 "...sealed inside this vulnerable little snow globe we call the present, life feels anything but forgettable and meaningless. And recognizing the starkness of it all, the course our straight line is taking, liberates us into the present. It imbues life with immediacy just like a disaster does. And just like a disaster it gives us a chance to expand those boundaries the only way we can be reaching out, by connecting our lives to the lives of others, by thatching our lives together like a net."
-'Genie Chance and the Great Alaska Earthquake,' New York Times podcast 5/22/2020 and "This is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, A Voice That Held It Together," 2020 book by Jon Mooallem.