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Sometimes, you find yourself needing some inspiration. Whether it be about life problems or friends or whatever... and even though, we wouldn't normally think that quotes from other people could help us out, they indeed can. They offer up inspiring words. Hence, why I have made a page for quotes about friendship... the joys, the tears, the pain, and everything you learn from it. It's all here. So take a ride on this journey of friendship, and maybe realize a thing or two about yourself and your friends that you never realized before. ('Cause hey, quite a few of these made me almost hit my head on the desk and go "duh, Keri!" ;))
"True friends are the ones who never leave your heart, even if they leave your life for awhile. 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."
"Once in a while, you meet someone and soon you both discover the two of you are truly something special to each other... you share your thoughts and feelings so relaxed, so openly, and right away you know your friendship's truly meant to be."
"Go the extra mile. It's never crowded."
"Friendships are different from all other relationships. Unlike aquaintanceship, friendship is based on love. Unlike lovers and married couples, it is free of jealousy. Unlike children and parents, it knows neither criticism nor resentment. Friendships has no status in law. Business partnerships are based on a contract. So is marriage. Parents are bound by law. But friendships are freely entered, freely given, and freely exercised."
"A faithful friend is the medicine of life."
"Best friends are like diamonds, precious and rare. False friends are like leaves, found everywhere."
"Friendship is like holding on to sand. One can't hold on to sand because sooner or later it's either going to blow away, slip through your fingers, or you're going to get tired of holding onto it. But if there are two people both trying to hold on to the same pile of sand, one can block the wind, catch the sand falling through the fingers, and hold it when the other is tired..."
"When your friends know where you stand in terms of how you feel or what you think is cool or uncool, they respect you. At least show respect for yourself by sticking up for what you believe in. And even if they don't agree wih you, good friends will think you're cool for being true to yourself. That's just the way it is. I think that if your friends don't like that you think a little different than they do, then maybe you shouldn't want them as friends. And, you should consider the loss of friendship their loss, not yours."
"A friend is someone with whom I can reveal many parts of me, even those I am meeting for the first time."
"My friends are the most important people in my life. They really are the family I chose. If not for them, I would be a completely different person. I would go to the ends of the earth for them if they ever asked, but they would never ask because they never want too much from me."
"A true friend overlooks your broken fence to admire your flowers."
"Even the best of friends face conflicts, but that needn't mean the end of the relationship."
"A true friend is one who knows you as you really are, understands where you've been, accepts who you've become, and still gently invites you to grow."
"A good friend sharpens your character, draws your soul into the light, and challenges your heart to love in the greatest of ways."
"Three seconds to say I love you, three hours to explain it, and a lifetime to prove it."
"Our relationship, our shared support, our consistency, is unrivaled by any other connection."
"Friends are the ones you gave a thousand chances to, but who never needed one."
"A good friend is someone who will help you when you are down, and if they can't, will lay down and listen."
"It is a curious thing in human experience but to live through a period of stress and sorrow with another person creates a bond which nothing seems able to break."
"Some friends only want to see the perfections in you. Others need to see the imperfections, and those are the true ones."
"Let your friends know how much they mean to you. Show them that you will always be there to listen. Sometimes that's all they need, someone to listen. People may try to help, but when they talk, it only makes the person feel more secluded. Give advice only when they ask for it. You never know when they may be silently suffering inside."
"What is a friend? I will tell you. It is a person with whom you dare to be yourself."
"Silence makes the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say, is what counts."
"To have a good friend is one of the highest delights of life; to be a good friend is one of the most noblest and most difficult undertakings."
"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud."
"Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer."
"It is really amazing when two strangers become the best of friends but it is really sad when two friends become two strangers."
"Our friends see the best in us, and that very fact calls forth the best from us."
"Take good care of your friends because there will be times when you are no good to anybody and there will be no good reason to like you except just out of pure habit."
"It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them."
"True friends don't stab you in the back or front; they don't stab you at all."
"A friend is someone who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself."
"Sometimes you can say something to someone without ever speaking a word."
"Perhaps you'd be a bit surprised how often, if you knew, a joke, a song, a memory will make me think of you."
"It's the friends that you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter."
"Best friends never tell each other that they are best friends - they just know."
"You've changed so much. I guess that's what happens. I wish you knew how much you've changed me. I wonder if I've changed you; if your life is different because of me. Because mine's different. My gosh, you taught me so much, and now we don't even talk to each other. I guess that's what happens."
"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough."
"Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light."
"If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give."
"Sooner or later you've heard about all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love."
"I talked for hours to your wallet photograph... and you just listened."
"Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart."
"When you're up, your friends know who you are. When you're down, you know who your friends are."
"It's easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend."
"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."
"Know me for who I am, feel me for who I am, love me for who I am. 'Cause that's all I'm gonna be."
"It hurts to see you walk away. For admit it or not, you were an important part of my life and the time we shared will forever be a part of me, so even though I realize it was never meant to be - still, it hurts."
"My friend, if I could give you one thing in life, it would be the ability to see. If I had only one friend left, I'd want it to be you. Someone who understands me and knows me inside out. Helps me keep together, believes without doubt. If I had only one friend left, I'd want it to be you."
"To dislike yourself is to insult your friends."
"Here's to the tears of friendship. May they crystalize as they fall and be worn as gems in memory of those we love."
"Well, what the hell did you know? Did you know how bad things were for me? No, because you wouldn't even open my letters. If you had even answered one, just one! Told me what a jerk I was, anything! But you didn't. You took your friendship away without even discussing it with me. So, thank you very much for forgiving me. But I don't forgive you."
"Give me one friend, just one, who meets the needs of all my varying moods."
"Friends are like television. Some are like PBS and always asking for money. Others are like the news, with sad tales to tell everyday, some are like that one station with the foreign language; you don't understand a word of it but you listen and watch anyway. And then there are the ones like the commercials, always changes, ever-so-annoying and only seem to be there when you are bored. But every once in a while you meet someone who's like a really good movie of the week or that one TV show you hardly ever get to see anymore because you're so busy. My point is hold on to the friends you care about and since we don't have a remote control to mute someone or just change the channel, pick your friends carefully."
"There are two things in life one must never lose - a sense of humor and the love of a best friend."
"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."
"A good friend is worth pursuing... But why would a good friend be running away?"
"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 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."
"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 distance of place or laspe of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth."
"How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend."
"We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another."
"I need you. I don't know why, but every now and then in my life, for no reason at all, I need you."
"Friends are friends forever if the Lord's the Lord of them."
"Friends are like stars in the sky. New ones may form and old ones may fade away. But no matter what, they shine a light into your life that will never be forgotten."
"Remember the people you meet in life, and don't ever be ashamed to miss them."
"Somehow, the conversation mentioned your name. And someone asked if I knew you. Looking away, I thought of all the time we had together; sharing, laughter, tears, jokes, and tons more. And then without explaination you were gone. I looked to where they were waiting for an answer, and then said softly, 'Once... I thought I did.'"
"A best friend is a sister destiny forgot to give you."
"Today if a happy smile comes to you, a happy smile that perhaps you can't explain... it is because at that moment, I am thinking of you, and smiling too."
"My love for you is so strong that no one could kill it, not even you."
"There are moments in life when you really miss someone so much that you want to pick them up from your dreams and hug them for real."
"If you love somebody, tell them."
"Don't be afraid to tell someone you love them. If you do, they might break your heart... but if you don't you might break theirs."
"We will never again see each other, but I hope that once in a while, you will think of me kindly for I will certainly think that way of you."
"Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same."
"Friends are kisses blown to us by angels."
"Friendship doubles your joys and divides your sorrows."
"Out of all the treasures in the world, there is nothing more precious than giving someone a piece of your heart."
"'Stay' is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary."
"A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes."
"We cherish our friends not for the ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them."
"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same."
"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."
"Sometimes, only one person is missing and the whole world seems depopulated."
"We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person."
"Friendships renewed demand more care than those which have never been broken."
"Two persons cannot be long friends if they cannot forgive each others little failings."
"A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world."
"It's easy to make a friend. What's hard is to make a stranger."
"Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one."
"Truth and tears clear the way to a deep and lasting friendship."
"A mere friend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue."
"Friendship demands attention."
"The best mirror is an old friend."
"I don't have high expectations - I have faith."
"A friend is someone who sees through you and still enjoys the view."
"Tell me your friends and I'll tell you who you are."
"Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing."
"Choose your friends with care. They are the ones that till talk about you the most."
"The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right next to them, knowing you can't have them."
"I miss you when something really good happens, because you're the only one I want to share it with. I miss you when something is troubling me, because you're the only one who understands me so well. I miss you when I laugh and cry, because I know that you are the one that makes my laughter grow and my tears disappear. I miss you all the time, but I miss you the most when I lay awake at night and think of all the wonderful times that we spent with each other for those were some of the best and most memorable times of my life."
"I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult the calendar."
"Friendship is like a silver teapot. Sometimes it's put away longer than we realize and it becomes tarnished, but after it's polished, it's like new again."
"Cherish friendship in your breast. New is good but old is best. Make new friends but keep the old - new is silver, the other is gold."
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