What's love got to do with it?

Good friends are rare.
Significant relationships are to be treasured.
Pure human connections are selfless, and do not come with expectation of reciprocation.
They appreciate strengths and understand weakness.
Friendship knows the steps of a dance called communication and executes that dance with eloquence.
The interpersonal experience of comradery must clothe itself in honest that is unadulterated by selective truth or minimized deception.
Apologies and forgiveness are natural and without strain.
A true friend will aide in realization and proactivity of goals, dreams, and vision.
Iron must sharpen iron; faith must build faith, and the removal of stumbling blocks is essential.
Call one another higher to fulfill the purpose of God in each others life.
In this you will find more than a good friend, but rather family.

Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for another; there is a friend that sticks closer than a brother.
It’s been said Jesus is that brotherly friend who lay down is life in death for us. Is it possible that “laying down your life” means more than just dying? Could “life” mean goals, ambitions, dreams, etc.? The disciples laid down their lives for Christ. Sometimes we need to lay down what we want for others. We are called to be family as “brothers and sisters in Christ”. Maybe it could be said like this, “A friend who displays fraternal love is willing to set aside his desires for the good of his brother.”