Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Some people go to priests. Others to poetry. I to my friends.
Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.
She is a friend of my mind. She gathers me, man. The pieces I am, she gathers them and give them back to me in all the right order.
Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Time doesn’t take away from friendship, nor does separation.
That’s how it goes, kids. The friends, neighbors, drinking buddies, and partners in crime you love so much when you’re young, as the years go by, you just lose touch. You will be shocked when you discover how easy it is in life to part ways with people forever. That’s why, when you find someone you want to keep around, you do something about it.
Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare and precious as a pearl.
Friendship — my definition — is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don’t have trust, the friendship will crumble.
A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience.
The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy to your soul.
A friend is one of the best things you can be and the greatest things you can have.
Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
We made a deal age ago. Men, babies, it doesn’t matter…We’re soulmates.
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
That’s when I realized what a true friend was. Someone who would always love you – the imperfect you, the confused you, the wrong you – because that is what people are supposed to do.
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.
No friendship is an accident.
Top of Form, Bottom of Form, True friends are like diamonds — bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.
You know what sucks about getting older? Your friends have known you for way too long. They’ve got too much on you. I want friends who still lie to me because they don’t want to hurt my feelings. I sadly kind of mean that.
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.
Friendship is accepting a person with all their qualities, good and bad.
Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
If you are ever lucky enough to find a weirdo, never let them go.
It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.
Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in; external situations cause internal friction; you grow apart and then bounce back together.
When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
A good friend is a connection to life — a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.
There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.
A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.
You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself, he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.
True friends are always together in spirit.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
I think if I’ve learned anything about friendship, it’s to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don’t walk away, don’t be distracted, don’t be too busy or tired, don’t take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together.
Every friendship travel at some time through the black valley of despair. This test every aspect of your affection. You lose the attraction and the magic. Your sense of each other darkens and your presence is sore. If you can come through this time, it can purify with your love, and falsity and need will fall away. It will bring you onto new ground where affection can grow again.
There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.
Friends are the family you choose.
The greatest gift in life is the gift of friendship, and I have received it; the greatest healing therapy is friendship.
There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Friends - they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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.
I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart.
True friends are never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart.
One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself.
Friends are relatives you make for yourself.
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
I still have friends from primary school. And my two best girlfriends are from secondary school. I don’t have to explain anything to them. I don’t have to apologize for anything. They know. There’s no judgment in any way.
You find out who your real friends are when you’re involved in a scandal.
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
And what is a friend? More than a father, more than a brother: a traveling companion, with him, you can conquer the impossible, even if you must lose it later. Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Friendship’s the wine of life.
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.
To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.
There’s nothing simpler than avoiding people you don’t like. Avoiding one’s friends, that’s the real test.
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.
A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life—and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.
True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.
The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another’s little lapses.
The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life.
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.
They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
Lose one friend, lose all friends, lose yourself. Why? Because nothing else seemed important.
We’re sisters; you’re my family. What is you, is me? There’s nothing that you could ever say to make me let go.
Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they’re trying to find someone who’s going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.
A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.
True friends are those rare people who come to find you in dark places and lead you back to the light.
Friendship isn’t about who you’ve known the longest. It’s about who walked into your life, said, “I’m here for you”, and proved it.
Throughout life you will meet one person who is like no other. You could talk to this person for hours and never get bored, you could tell this person things and they will never judge you. This person is your soulmate, your best friend. Don’t ever let them go.
Best friends don’t necessarily have to talk every day. They don’t even need to talk for weeks. But when they do, it’s like they never stopped talking.
Remember George, no man is a failure who has friends. It’s a Wonderful Life
A strong friendship doesn’t need daily conversation and doesn’t always need togetherness. As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends will never part.
Best friend: the one that you can be mad at only for a short period of time because you have important stuff to tell them.
A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.
It’s not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters.
A friend who understands your tears is much more valuable than a lot of friends who only know your smile.
We weren’t sisters [or brothers] by birth, but we knew from the start…fate brought us together to be sisters [or brothers] by heart.
Real friendship is when your friend comes over to your house and then you both just take a nap.
Sometimes being with your best friend is all the therapy you need.
Life was meant for good friends and great adventures.
Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.
Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that.
In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing… not healing, not curing… that is a friend who cares.
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends.
If you live to be a hundred, I hope I live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.
Never let your best friends get lonely, keep disturbing them.
Everyone has a friend during each stage of life. But only lucky ones have the same friend in all stages of life.
If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together, there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart… I’ll always be with you.
I found out what the secret to life is—friends. Best friends. Fried Green Tomatoes
There are friends, there is family, and then there are friends that become family.
The human spirit is more powerful than any drug and that is what needs to be nourished with work, play, friendship, family. These are the things that matter.
You don’t need too many words to describe your appreciation for your friend! Sometimes simple sayings are more impactful, and also more memorable. Keep it short and sweet with these wonderful quotes.
Best friends. Because if anyone else heard our conversations we’d end up in the mental hospital.
Friends buy you food. Best friends eat your food.
God made us best friends because he knew our moms couldn’t handle us as sisters.
True friendship is when you walk into their house and your WiFi connects automatically.
There are friends that will never leave your side, during the best and the worst times. Those are the most loyal friends and they know how to bring out the best in you. Appreciate their loyalty with these quotes fit for your true blue friend.
True friends aren’t the ones who make your problems disappear. They are the ones who won’t disappear when you’re facing problems.
Best friends understand when you say, ‘forget it.’ Wait forever when you say, ‘just a minute.’ Stay when you say, ‘leave me alone.’ And open the door before you can say, ‘come in.
When it hurts to look back and you’re afraid to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there.
Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don’t say.
A strong friendship doesn’t need daily conversation or being together. As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends never part.
For those especially close friends, the friends that have been there for you in the best and worst times, you’ll want to celebrate with these extraordinary friendship quotes. Each quote is guaranteed to warm your friend’s heart.
That’s when I realized what a true friend was. Someone who would always love you — the imperfect you, the confused you, the wrong you — because that is what people are supposed to do.
Best friends share laughs, memories and inside jokes. They will always be honest and stand by your side no matter what. They wipe your tears, pick you up when you fall, and are forever a piece of your heart.
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