Friend is a verb.

A friend considers sharing an achievement good news, an enemy thinks it's bragging.

To a friend, achievement is good news, to an enemy, its bragging.

Mediocrity inspires neither great love nor hate.

When ridicule is shrill, remember people only bother to belittle something they perceive big enough to fear.

Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.