Your mate doesn't live by bread alone; he or she needs to be 'buttered up' from time to time.
Zig ZiglarYou'll never meet a happy ungrateful person, or an unhappy grateful person because gratitude and happiness go together. Sometimes happiness precedes gratitude but often gratitude precedes happiness. The latter is achieved by realising things could be worse but aren't and so feeling relieved, grateful and happy.
Zig Ziglar