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True Friendship Quotes
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. Muhammad Ali
Don’t walk in front of me. I may not follow Don’t walk behind me. I may not lead Walk beside me just be my friend. Albert Camus
Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up. Thomas J. Watson
Friendship is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You too? I thought that no one but myself. C.S. Lewis
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. Elisabeth Foley
A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you. Elbert Hubbard
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. Anais Nin
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience this is the ideal life. Mark Twain
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose. Tennessee Williams
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. Friedrich Nietzsche
They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. Carl W. Buechner
The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for. Bob Marley
Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life. Amy Poehler
There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature. Jane Austen
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. Audrey Hepburn
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you. Joan Powers
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched they must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you. I could walk through my garden forever. Alfred Tennyson
Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. Dumbledore
When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable. Jess C. Scott
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. Ally Condie
There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate. Linda Grayson
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean 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. 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 curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. Henri Nouwen
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. Oprah Winfrey
I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light. Helen Keller
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. Khalil Gibran
Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend. Sarah Dessen
To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world. Dr. Seuss
You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together. Nicholas Sparks
A friend is one of the best things you can be and the greatest things you can have. Sarah Valdez
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival. C.S. Lewis
Time doesn’t take away from friendship, nor does separation. Tennessee Williams
You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes. A.A. Milne
When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands. Maria Shriver
Why did you do all this for me? he asked. I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done anything for you. You have been my friend, replied Charlotte. That in itself is a tremendous thing. E.B. White
There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met. Jim Henson
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. Aristotle
A single rose can be my garden a single friend, my world. Leo Buscaglia
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. Powerful stuff. Jon Katz
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. Woodrow T. Wilson
Nobody likes being alone that much. I don’t go out of my way to make friends, that’s all. It just leads to disappointment. Haruki Murakami
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. Ed Cunningham
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. Muhammad Ali
A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. Donna Roberts
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. Anais Nin
It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. Marlene Dietrich
How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give em. Shel Silverstein
Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget. G. Randolf
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like What about lunch? A. A. Milne
A good friend is like a four leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have. Irish Proverb
Well, it seems to me that the best relationships the ones that last are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with. Gillian Anderson
I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light. Helen Keller
Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies. Richelle Mead
True friends are never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart. Helen Keller
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. Alice Walker
No friendship is an accident. O. Henry
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature. P.G. Wodehouse
Friends are the siblings God never gave us. Mencius
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends? Abraham Lincoln
True friends are like diamonds bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style. Nicole Richie
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. Friedrich Nietzsche
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. Thomas Aquinas
Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure. Stephen King
Friends are the family you choose. Jess C. Scott
If you have two friends in your lifetime, you’re lucky. If you have one good friend, you’re more than lucky. S.E. Hinton
Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you. Misty Copeland
There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books. Irving Stone
There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate. Linda Grayson
Words are easy, like the wind; faithful friends are hard to find. William Shakespeare
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected. Charles Lamb
The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them. Thomas Merton
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. Bernard Meltzer
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. Ally Condie
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. Arnold H. Glasgow
The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families. Jay McInerney
The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another’s little lapses. David Storey
The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you. Bette Midler
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. Henri Nouwen
There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve foot mountain troll is one of them. J. K. Rowling
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. Khalil Gibran
Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts. Margaret Lee Runbeck
Friends they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams. Henry David Thoreau
People have forgotten this truth, the fox said. But you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose. Antoine de Saint Exupéry
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. Richard Burton
I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam. J.R.R. Tolkien
The only way to have a friend is to be one. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship. Ralph Waldo Emerson
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. Aristotle
A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship. Markus Zusak
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. Henry Ford
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. Elie Wiesel
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. Winnie the Pooh
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected. Charles Lamb
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation. Oscar Wilde
I am always saying Glad to’ve met you to somebody I’m not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though. J.D. Salinger
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. Ralph Waldo Emerson
It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill. Emilie Autumn
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. Albert Schweitzer
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. Stieg Larsson
Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare and precious as a pearl. Tahar Ben Jelloun
When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives. George R.R. Martin
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine. Thomas Jefferson
I don’t trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they’re going to get tired of me and take off. Rainbow Rowell
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. Henri Nouwen
When I say it’s you I like, I’m talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed. Fred Rogers
If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you. Winnie the Pooh
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success. Oscar Wilde
She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. Toni Morrison
True friends are always together in spirit. L.M. Montgomery
Love is friendship set on fire. Jeremy Taylor
We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you. Sylvia Plath
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. Anthony Robbins
I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that’snwhy. John Steinbeck
The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life. Chelsea Handler
You can go through life and make new friends every year every month practically but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel. Alexander McCall Smith
Friendship is accepting a person with all their qualities good and bad. Mohanlal
Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary. Amos Bronson Alcott
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. Marilyn Monroe
