Reviews for Life's Little Treasure Book on Friendship

The average rating for Life's Little Treasure Book on Friendship based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-10-26 00:00:00 Diane Delaney I loved this book it was interesting. I would recommend this book to any age. It it is like poem books. Wave and people will wave back. Treat people how you want to be treated. Always be nice.

Review # 2 was written on 2021-05-10 00:00:00 David Sevshek This is a quotation book with a slight difference in that as well as quotations from named people, there are anonymous observations and advice on how to cultivate, nourish and maintain friendships interspersed throughout the book, together with relevant anonymous but age-annotated comments entitled 'I've learned that ...', which the author had received from readers of his book 'Life's Little Instruction Book'. And it all makes for interesting reading. A few of the 'I've learned that ...' comments certainly ring true, from a 38-year-old, 'when I surprise an old friend with a phone call, it will seem like just yesterday that we last spoke', from a 48-year-old, 'when you're too busy for your friends, you're too busy', from a 16-year-old, 'no matter how much a friend promises not to tell anyone else, she always does', and a sage piece of advice from a 13-year-old, 'you can never be too good a listener when a friend is in need'. And when it comes to quotations, those American presidents are wise old things! George Washington said, 'Be courteous with all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.' And that polymath Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, commented, 'A father's a treasure; a brother's a comfort; a friend is both.' And from this side of the pond, Samuel Johnson said, in his usual fashion, 'If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.' Ralph Waldo Emerson obviously took this advice to heart for he said, 'I woke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.' As H Jackson Brown states in the introduction, 'A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world. A true friend stands at our side during the best and worst of times. A true friend listens when we need to talk through a problem. A true friend will defend us to the world.' Indeed, and as it states in Ecclesiastes 6:6, 'A faithful friend is the medicine of life.' And long may it be so.