Friendship Quotes
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"Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence." ~Sydney Smith "Friends are the sunshine of life." ~John Hay "Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship- never." ~Charles Caleb Colton "No man is a failure who has friends." ~It's a Wonderful Life "Friends are forever. You might lose them, but you'll never forget them." ~Unknown "A friend is one who can touch your heart from across the world or across the room." ~Unknown "A friend's hand is always there. You just have to reach out for it." ~Unknown "Laughter is the shortest distance between two friends." ~Unknown "As we grow older things change, but they don't always have to end. Even though it is different now, you will always be my friend." ~Unknown "Friendship is precious not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine." ~Shawn Swain "A friend worth your tears will never make you cry." ~William Conner "I value the friend who, for me, finds time on his calendar. But I cherish the friend who, for me, does not consult his calendar." ~Robert Brault "You lifted me up when I could not lift myself; you made me smile when I forgot how to. You were there for me in my times of need and you were there for me when I needed nothing at all." ~Rebecca Carbon "Fate made us sisters and love made us friends." ~Unknown "There are moments in life when the voice of a friend can sound like a choir of angels to the heart." ~Unknown "A friend is like a rainbow: they brighten your life when you've been through a storm." ~Unknown "Friendship: a language the blind can see and the deaf can hear." ~Unknown "A reassuring presence, a light when times are dark, a hand reaching out is what friendship is all about." ~Unknown "Never forget the time I spend with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours." ~Unknown "Friendship is like a golden rose that never dies and always keeps its beauty." ~Unknown "People see each other as chocolate or vanilla. Why can't we all just come together and be hugs?" ~Becky Mann "When you ask God for a gift, be thankful if he sends not diamonds, riches, nor pearls but the love of true friends." ~Unknown "Life is so much friendlier with two." ~A.A. Milne "Hold a friend's hand through times of trial. Let her find love through a hug and a smile, but also know when it's time to let go. For each and every one of us must learn to grow." ~Sharon A. Heilbrunn "Friendship is everlasting." ~Unknown "A friend is one who knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts who you've become and still invites you to grow." ~Unknown "It's really amazing when two strangers become the best of friends. It's really sad when the best of friends become two strangers." ~Unknown "The world would be so lonely in sunny hours or gray without the gift of friendship to help us every day." ~Hilda Brett Farr "Rekindled friendships often burn more brightly." ~Unknown "The best things in life aren't things...they're friends." ~Unknown "When you're with someone you trust in, never needing to pretend; someone who helps you to know yourself, you know you're among friends." ~Amanda Bradley "We must not love our friends for what they are, but love them for the angel they might be." ~Unknown "Friendship is love with understanding." ~Unknown "Friendship is love without his wings." ~Lord Byron "A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson "A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out." ~Unknown "'Stay' is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary." ~Louisa May Alcott "The only way to have a friend is to be one." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson "Friend: one who knows all about you and loves you just the same." ~Elbert Hubbard "What sweetness is left in life if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of sun." ~Cicero "It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter." ~Marlene Dietrick "Two friends will not be friends long if they cannot forgive each other's failings." ~Hilaire Belloc "When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work but the solidest things we can know." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson "If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sake rather than for our own." ~Charlotte Bronte "True friendship is when two friends can walk in opposite directions, yet remain side by side." ~Unknown "People say true friends must always hold hands, but true friends don't need to hold hands because they know the other hand will always be there." ~Unknown "A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him." ~Aesop "If you were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't follow; I would be at the bottom to catch you when you fall." ~Unknown "The difficulty is not to die for a friend, but to find a friend worth dying for." ~Unknown "If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend." ~Adam Duritz "No matter how good a friend someone is, they're going to hurt you every once in a while and you must forgive them for that." ~Unknown "A friend is somebody you want to be around when you feel like being by yourself." ~Unknown "Because we can't call people without wings angels, we call them friends instead." ~Unknown "A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you today just the way you are." ~Unknown "My best friend is one who brings out the best in me and keeps me from falling instead of picking me up." ~Unknown "Throughout life you will meet one person who is unlike any other, you could talk to this person for hours and never get bored, you could tell them things and they won't judge you... this person is your soul mate, your best friend... don't ever let them go." ~Unknown "When you're weary, feeling small; when tears are in your eyes, I'll dry them all." ~Simon & Garfunkel "Friends-people who stand by you when you're hurt and who help you feel not so lonely. They're always worth being scared for, hoping for, and living for...worth dying for too, if that's what has to be. No good friends, no bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build houses in your heart." ~Unknown "Everyone sees who you seem to be, few understand who you really are." ~Unknown "I've brought to you my insecurities and laid them carefully around you, hoping that you would deal with them gently. You stood beside me when so many have walked away. You sheltered me with affection and I felt more secure. You did not treat me with insignificance but you showed me a brighter side." ~Sherrie L. Householder "You can never take back a friendship. Once it occurs it's in your heart forever." ~Unknown "A friend will strengthen you with his prayers, bless you with his love, and encourage you with his hope."~Unknown "Guard your friendships with great care; they are some of your most valuable possessions." ~Unknown "Acceptance, forgiveness, and companionship are the recipe for a lasting friendship." ~Unknown "A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself." ~Unknown "If you're really fortunate there are a handful of people in your life who mean it when they say,"I'll be there for you." ~Dave Barry "Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years." ~Unknown "A best friend is a locket kept so close to my heart." ~Unknown "The only rose without a thorn is true friendship!" ~Unknown "A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world." ~Unknown "A loyal friend is like a safe shelter; find one and you have found treasure." ~Sirach "Two are better than one...for if they fall , one will lift up the other." ~Ecclesiastes 4:9-11 NRSV "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 haven't learned anything at all." ~Unknown "True friendship is infinite and immortal." ~Unknown "True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable." ~Dave Tyson Gentry "A friend is someone who knows the song to your soul, and can sing it back to you when you've forgotten the words." ~Unknown "Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have forgotten how to fly." ~Unknown "Friendship warms the heart." ~Unknown "Life without a friend is death without a witness." ~Unknown "A true friend is the greatest of all blessings and the one which we take the least thought to acquire." ~De La Rochefoucauld "If it is very painful for you to criticize your friends then you are safe in doing it. But, if you take the slightest pleasure in it, then it is time to hold your tongue." ~Alice Miller "Friendship...is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world." ~John Evelyn "When you give of yourself, you receive more than you give." ~Antoine De Saint-Exupery "Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand." ~Emily Kimbrough "It takes a lot of understanding, time and trust to gain a close friendship...As I approach a time in my life of complete uncertainty, my friends are my most precious asset." ~Erynn Miller "A friend is a gift you give yourself." ~Robert Louis Stevenson "The capacity to care is the thing that gives life its deepest meaning and significance." ~Pablo Casals "There's a miracle called friendship that dwells within the heart, and you don't know how it happens or how it gets its start...but the happiness it brings you always gives a special lift, and you realize that friendship is God's most precious gift." ~Unknown "Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another." ~George Eliot "If you have one true friend, you have more than you're share." ~Thomas Fuller "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 much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair and confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of great 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 Novwen "Friendship multiplies joys and divides grief." ~Thomas Fuller "Friends are there, smile or tear. Friends are there, happiness or fear. Friends are fun and friends are clever, and the ties that binds friends will last forever." ~Harmony Davis "Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend." ~Albert Camus "Strangers are just friends waiting to happen." ~Unknown "Friendship is one mind in two bodies." ~Mencius "I'll lean on you, you lean on me and we'll be okay." ~Dave Matthews Band "Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say." ~Unknown "My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life." ~Lee Lacocca "Hold a true friend with both your hands." ~Nigerian Proverb "It takes a lifetime to thank a true friend for everything that they have given you." ~Unknown "Don't judge yourself by your friends, judge yourself by your best friend." ~Unknown "I have had many"best friends" walk in and out of my life, and have been hurt many times by these"friends"... but each experience has made me stronger, a better person and friend...and now, I have finally found a group of people who I can consider my friends...my crew...who I don't have to pretend to be someone I'm not around, and who except me for me...and who, oddly enough, like me because of who I am." ~Victoria Puglia "My friend, if I could give you one thing, I would wish for you the ability to see yourself as others see you. Then you would realize what a truly special person you are." ~Unknown "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." ~G. Randolf "You know that place between asleep and awake? Where you still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always think of you." ~Tinkerbell "They say nothing lasts forever. Well I say they are wrong because no one could ever change the way I feel about you and my ink will never fade. Neither will our memories." ~Unknown "Do you remember the first time we met? It seemed like an instant friendship. We somehow knew we could lean upon each other, depend on one another. It seemed as though we had always been friends. We helped each other through some times we never thought we could endure. For as long as I live, you will always hold a place inside me. Our friendship will always be a very important part of my life." ~Unknown "And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed." ~Kahlil Gibran "Of all the moments we treasure in our lives, the ones we treasure most are the moments shared." ~Unknown "Nurture friendships, for they give our spirits wings and our dreams a reason to take flight." ~Unknown "It is that my friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges, and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my deprivation." ~Helen Keller "We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection." ~Ricther "I breathed a song into the air and it fell to earth, I know not where. And the song from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend." ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own." ~Benjamin Disraeli "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost." ~Charles Caleb Colton "A friend is one who walks in when others walk out." ~Walter Winchell "A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else." ~Len Wein "A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more." ~Unknown "Everyone is a friend until they prove otherwise." ~Unknown "Two may walk together under that same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends." ~Mary Catherwood "The love of my life is the love between friends." ~Unknown "I have a hand and you have another; put them together and we have each other." ~Girl Scouts "No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever." ~François Mocuriac "Friends are God's way of taking care of us." ~Unknown "The sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship." ~Cicero "The friendship that can cease has never been real." ~Saint Jerome "One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter." François Sagan "The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?" ~Henry David Thoreau "Friendship without self interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life." ~James Francis Byrnes "When silences are no longer awkward, you know you are around friends." ~Unknown "How do you know you've found your best friend? When you are ready to talk to them about anything, even though they know everything about you already." ~Unknown "A friend will break your heart; a friend will mend it; a friend will provide you with every feeling in the world, good and bad. A friend is emotion incarnate." ~Unknown "I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me. I'd like to be the help that you've always been glad to be. I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day, as you have meant, dear friend of mine, to me along the way." ~Edgar A. Guest "Silences make the real conversation between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts." ~Margaret Lee Rubeck "The most beautiful discovery that two friends can make is that they can grow separately without growing apart." ~Elizabeth Foley "You only meet your once in a lifetime friend...once in a lifetime." ~Little Rascals "A best friend is a sister that destiny forgot to give us." ~Unknown "You just reminded me of what's really important in life: friends, best friends." ~Fried Green Tomatoes "A friend is someone who reaches for your hand but touches your heart." ~Kathleen Grove "Fate chooses your relations; you choose your friends." ~Jaques Delille "A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson "Keep your friendships in repair." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson "A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson "It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us." ~Epicures "I look upon every day to be lost in which I do not make a new acquaintance." ~Samuel Johnston "Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together." ~Woodrow Wilson "A true friend stabs you in the front." ~Oscar Wilde "The making of friends who are real friends is the best token we have of a man's success in life." ~Edward Everett Hale "You have been such a great friend through all of this. Many times you've been the only person I could talk to about it. Thank you so much for that. You mean the world to me." ~Michelle Burns "At times, when I feel all alone, I think of you and my heart heads home. Memories' path will have no end when shared with you, my wonderful friend." ~Unknown "Be slow in choosing a friend and slower in changing." ~Benjamin Franklin "To be rich in friends is to be poor in nothing." ~Lilian Whiting "Friendship is the strangest kind of love; the less selfish way to love." ~Unknown "Friends are like stars, they always seem to shine when the night is at its darkest." ~Meredith Shea "Don't go looking for friends, because the best ones always seem to find you." ~Sarah Landon "Friendship is a rainbow between two hearts." ~Unknown "Friendship is the poetry of life." ~Unknown "A song is a moment; a friend is a time; a best friend is a lifetime." ~Unknown "A friend is the inspiration in you when you have lost all hope, and they bring out a world inside of you that you never knew you had." ~Unknown "Friendship? Yes please." ~Charles Dickens "Wherever you are, it is your friends who make your world." ~William James "What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?" ~George Elliot "Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving; make every day a holiday and celebrate living!" ~Amanda Bradley "Let's become little old ladies together- we'll stay up late looking at old pictures telling 'remember-when' stories and laughing until our side ache. Let's become eccentric together- the kind of old ladies who take long walks, wear silly hats and get away with acting outrageous in public places. And if anybody should ask how long we've been friends, we'll say 'oh, forever...since before you were even born!' Let's become little old ladies together, because a friendship that's a special as ours can only grow better through the years." ~Unknown "Nothing in high school is important enough to affect anyone's life beyond college admissions besides your true friends." ~Unknown "Let's make a resolution. I'll drink to that. Let's always stay friends. Friendship is thicker than blood...that depends...depends on trust. Depends on true devotion; depends on love; depends on not denying emotion." ~Rent "I do believe I know most of the best people in the world and you've all made my life livable." ~Jon P. Shank "The best gift in life is knowing that we have someone who loves us unconditionally; who can make us laugh; who is there to listen and who warms our heart. The best gift in life is a best friend." ~Unknown "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." ~Martin Luther King, Jr. "True friendship is a knot which angels hands have tied." ~Unknown "We've shared so much laughter, so many tears. We're a spiritual bond that grows stronger each year. We're not sisters by birth, but we knew from the start something put us together to be sisters by heart." ~Unknown "The language of friendship is not words but meanings." ~Unknown "I thank you for all the goodness, kindness, honesty and warmth of feeling that the continuance of our friendship brings." ~Unknown "The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which I spent my life with you sharing our lives and building our friendship." ~Unknown "The best conversation between two friends is a smile." ~Unknown "For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; to cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one strands." ~Christina Rossetti "A memory lasts forever and never dies. True friends stay together and never say good-bye." ~Unknown "When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is someone who, instead of giving much advice, solutions or cures, has chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle 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. That is a friend who cares." ~Unknown "The worst thing in life is to lose a friend, a friend that means the world to you, a friend that you put all your trust and faith in, a friend that you believed in from the start, a friend that took the center of your heart, a friend that you'd die for, a friend that you wanted to cherish for a lifetime, a friend, a good friend, a best friend." ~Unknown "A friend is someone who can see the truth and pain in you even when you are fooling everyone else." ~Unknown "I can't imagine how life would be if I didn't know you and you didn't know me. Who would I laugh and cry with 'till the end? What would I do without you - my best friend?" ~Unknown "In ways they were different, but the bond they shared was stronger, and they knew that they'd be friends at least forever, maybe longer." ~Unknown "Crazy friends provide for crazy times and what crazy times we've had." ~Niel Young "Being a good 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 there is a time to pick up the pieces when it's all over." ~Unknown "You were always there when I needed you, never left my side. Always there to lean on and dry the tears I cried. I could always talk to you; you never seemed to mind. Your voice so sweet and gentle, your words so honest and kind. I thought I'd never meet someone as special as you are. You're my best friend in the whole wide world, you are my shooting star." ~Unknown "That's just how people are these days. You are so lucky to find one true and honest friend out there. And if you find them, never let them go." ~Michelle Burns "When the world knocks you down, a true friend will help you up." ~Unknown "I'd live and I'd die for you; steal the sun from the sky for you. Words can't say what friendship can do, I'll be there for you." ~Unknown "If I had only one friend left, I'd want it to be you. Someone who understand me and knows me inside and out. Someone who helps keep me together; someone who believes in me without a doubt. If I had only one friend left, I'd want it to be you." ~Unknown "Everyone has a best friend during each stage of life. Only a precious few have the same one." ~Unknown "And when there seems like there is no one left to run to in the empty world of ours, you can come to me and I will be your shooting star. You can tell me your dreams. I can't promise that I can make them come true, but I will be there to pick up the pieces of your broken heart if your dreams happen to fall through." ~Unknown "A friend is someone who, upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experiencing the pain than to have to watch their friend suffer." ~Unknown "There are moments when one special friend makes a difference that no one can make." ~Unknown "A friend understands the unspoken thoughts in your heart." ~Unknown "And I think that they know. Nothing specific really. They just know, and that is all I could ever ask for from a friend." ~Unknown "Understanding what our friends need isn't magic. It comes from taking the time to notice one another and respond to their needs, so friends who pay attention are especially precious. A real friend makes the effort." ~Unknown "Thank you for yesterday, today, and always... for bringing me happiness right from the start and offering me both your love and your heart, for being so thoughtful in all that you do, overlooking my faults, and understanding me too." ~Unknown "Once someone touches your heart, the fingerprints last forever." ~Unknown "As long as there are memories ,yesterday remains. As long as there is hope, tomorrow awaits. As long as there is friendship, today is beautiful." ~Unknown "That day was perfect. I spent it solely with him and we had a blast, not as a couple, but as best friends. That will never be torn apart." ~Michelle Burns "Fear not - for I will always hold you hand through hard time. Do not be ashamed to cry - for I will always be there to wipe away your tears. Never hesitate to come to me with your problem - for my heart will always be there to listen and help. Remember that I will be there for you." ~Unknown "Do me a favor and don't ever give up on your dreams, because it would be my dream to see your dreams come true." ~Unknown "And when the crowd becomes your burden, and you've early closed the curtains, I'll wait by the backstage door while you try to find the lines to speak your mind." ~Fiona Apple "Without even realizing it, you taught me a lot. Not only about life, but about what true friendships can be like. Please do me a favor and never give up...not in yourself, other people, your dreams, in anything." ~Erica Long "Prosperity makes friends; adversity ties them. To keep your friends tied is easy, but to find faithful friends is hard." ~Unknown "A picture is worth a thousand words that tell a memory. However, some of our memories couldn't be described with even a million of the most beautiful words." ~Jeremy Straight "Friendship brought us together, laughter got us through, life will take us on our own ways and love will make our dreams come true." ~Unknown "People come in and out of our lives to teach us. And we teach other people. It's part of the process. They come in and they go out. Some stay for longer than others..." ~Gillian Anderson "Your real friends aren't the ones you spend the most time with but the ones you share the most memories with." ~Unknown "Friendships for and fade, but only those who are there in the end are the ones who were really there in the first place." ~Unknown "It was just enough to sit there without words." ~Unknown "Side by side, or miles apart, dear friends are always close at heart." ~Unknown "If you look back on the events of your year, whether good or bad, and you don't get tears in your eyes, it was all a waste of time." ~Ally McBeal "If it hurts too much to look back, but you're too scared to look ahead, just look beside you and I'll be there." ~Unknown "True friends are the ones who never leave your heart, even if they leave your life for a while. Even after years apart, you pick up with them right where you left off and even if they die, they're never dead in your heart." ~Unknown "I'll never find another friend to replace you. No one will ever touch my world exactly like you did. No one who's quite so thoughtful, no one I cherish so. No one will mean so much to me, I just wanted to you to know." ~Unknown
