Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

Jealousy is a tough thing to carry because it causes us to compare and compete. It silences us from celebrating and affirming. When we live in families that compare and compete, but can't celebrate and affirm, we live at war.

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

They also thought to drive away his distemper by harsh and surly carriages to him; sometimes they would deride, sometimes they would chide, and sometimes they would quite neglect him.

What's the key to relating to others? It's putting yourself in someone else's place instead of putting them in their place.

Leaders gain credibility when they suffer with those they lead.

The common experiences you share with others don't have to be that dramatic (although adversity definitely brings people together). Anything you experience together that creates a common history helps to connect you to others.

Are we quick to respond to others' needs? Do we run from problems or face them? Do we talk more about bad news or good news? Do we give people the benefit of the doubt, or do we assume the worst? The

Connect emotionally through facial expressions, laughter, and tears.

How do the people around you react to the sparks of life? Are they fire lighters who blow things up, or firefighters who calm things down?

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.