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When you completely trust a person, you’ll get one of two results: a friend for life, or a lesson for life
If you are lucky enough to find a weirdo never let them go
Friendship means understanding, not agreement. It means forgiveness, not forgetting. It means the memories last, even if contact is lost.
Best friends make the good times better and the hard times easier
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. ―Friedrich Nietzsche
True friendship is when you walk into their house and your WiFi connects automatically. ―Unknown
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
Friends make you smile — best friends make you giggle ’til you pee your pants. ―Terri Guillemets
Friends are angels that lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly
Real friends don’t get offended when you insult them. They smile and call you something even more offensive.
True friends say good things behind your back and bad things to your face
Friendship is a wildly underrated medication. ―Anna Deavere Smith
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one. ―C.S. Lewis
A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have. ―Irish Proverb
Friendship is not a big thing …it’s a million little things.
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it. ―Hubert H. Humphrey
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself — and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is. ―Jim Morrison
Friendship isn’t about whom you’ve known the longest. It’s about who came and never left your side.
Friendship is like a bank account. You cant continue to draw on it without making deposits.
Make friends with people who arent your age. Hang out with people whose first language isnt the same as yours. Get to know someone who doesnt come from your social class. This is how you see the world. This is how you grow.
I may not always be there with you, but I will always be there for you. Unknown Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you. ―Misty Copeland
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. ―Dean Koontz
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough. ―Walt Whitman
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
Friendship is what gets you through the bad times and helps you enjoy the good times. ―Unknown
You and I are more than friends. We’re like a really small gang. ―Unknown
A friend to all is a friend to none.
I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better. ―Abraham Lincoln
Before you judge me make sure you’re perfect
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. ―Walter Winchell
Best friends are people you don’t need to talk to every single day. You don’t need to talk to each other for weeks, but when you do, it’s as if you never stopped talking.
A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling. ―Arthur Brisbane
As soon as I saw you, I knew and adventure was going to happen.
We are best friends. Always remember, that if you fall, I will pick you up. After I finish laughing.
A friendship that can end never really began. ―Publilius Syrus
Being honest may not get you many friends, but it will always get you the right ones.
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. ―Lois Wyse
True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable. ―David Tyson
One sure way to lose another woman’s friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements. ―Marcelene Cox
Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there. ―Unknown
A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. ―Douglas Pagels
I don’t know what I would have done so many times in my life if I hadn’t had my girlfriends. ―Reese Witherspoon
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. ―Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Best friend: the one that you can mad only for a short period of time because you have important stuff to tell them. ―Unknown
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
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
There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met. ―Jim Henson
Friendship is the marriage of affections. ―Thomas J. Watson
I love people I can be crazy with
Friendship is the purest love. ―Osho
A friend is someone who makes it easy to believe in yourself. ―Heidi Wills
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. ―Kahlil Gibran
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. ―Paramahansa Yogananda
In a friend, you find a second self. ―Isabelle Norton
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. ―Thomas Aquinas
It takes a long time to grow an old friend. ―John Leonard
Life was meant for good friends and great adventures. ―Unknown
We are best friends. Always remember that if you fall, I will pick you up… after I finish laughing. ―Unknown
Share your smile with the world. It’s a symbol of friendship and peace. ―Christie Brinkley
Friendship is one mind in two bodies. ―Mencius
The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends. ―Gwyneth Paltrow
Sometimes Me Think, What is Friend? and then me say, Friend is someone to share the last cookie with.
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends. ―Walt Whitman
A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. ―Donna Roberts
Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave and impossible to forget. ―G. Randolf
We’ll be best friends forever because you already know too much. ―Unknown
We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends – your own chosen family. There’s nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing. ―Jennifer Aniston
Friends are the family we choose for ourselves
Friends are the family you choose. ―Jess C. Scott
The best time to make friends is before you need them. ―Ethel Barrymore
The only good thing about times of adversity is that you realize who your real friends and fans are – and the rest go away – which in my mind is an OK thing. ―Pete Wentz
The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when. ―Simon Sinek
The holy passion of Friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. ―Mark Twain
It’s not that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but it’s your best friends who are your diamonds. ―Gina Barreca
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you’re most ashamed of. ―Jodie Foster
Lovers have a right to betray you. Friends don’t.― Judy Holliday
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. ―Kahlil Gibran
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. ―Charles Caleb Colton
‘Are we going to be friends forever?’ asked Piglet. ‘Even longer,’ Pooh answered. ―A.A. Milne
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
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and be understood. ―Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Im a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didnt have the heart to let him down. – Abraham Lincoln
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
Friends are the siblings God never gave us. ―Mencius
I think about my best friendship – which the Marnie-Hannah friendship in Girls is based on – as like a great romance of my young life. ―Lena Dunham
The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families. ―Jay McInerney
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. ―Aristotle
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant. ―Socrates
There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met. ―William Butler Yeats
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. ―Saint Basil
A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship. ―Markus Zusak
Every friendship of ours is more or less closely connected with everything else about us: every one of our friends, the more so the more intimate we are, influences the direction our life takes, just as our life’s direction influences our choice of friends. Friendship is crucial to what most of us come to be in life. ―Alexander Nehamas
When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know. ―Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. ―Plutarch
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth. ―Herman Melville
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is, at last, a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses, there is at last one which makes the heart run over. ―Ray Bradbury
I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it; friends make life a lot more fun. ―Charles R. Swindoll
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. ―Unknown
It’s not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters. ―Unknown
At some point in your childhood, you and your friends went outside to play together for the last time, and nobody knew it
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
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. ―Jean de La Fontaine
Never take friendship for granted, you never know what tomorrow holds. ―Catherine Pulsifer
If you can survive 11 days in cramped quarters with a friend and come out laughing, your friendship is the real deal. ―Oprah Winfrey
Some friends play at friendship but a true friend sticks closer than one’s nearest kin. ―Proverbs 18:24
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart. ―Eleanor Roosevelt
A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world. ―Leo Buscaglia
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. ―Aristotle
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. ―Octavia Butler
But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship. ―Seneca
A good friend will help you move. But best friend will help you move a dead body. ―Jim Hayes
Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud. ―Maya Angelou
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. ―Washington Irving
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. ―Arnold H. Glasgow
To the world, you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world. ―Brandi Snyder
A stranger stabs you in the front. A friend stabs you in the back. A boyfriend stabs you in the heart. Best friends poke each other with straws. ―Unknown
If we treated ourselves as well as we treated our best friend, can you imagine? ―Meghan Markle
I’ve always said that in politics, your enemies can’t hurt you, but your friends will kill you. ―Ann Richards
If you want peace, you dont talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies
One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention. ―Clifton Fadiman
Things are never quite as scary when you have a best friend. ―Bill Watterson
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success. ―Oscar Wilde
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. ―Aristotle
The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away. ―Barbara Kingsolver
Never tell your friends, “I told you so” – even when you did.―Wendy Jean Smith
I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light. ―Helen Keller
Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life; you can barely remember what life was like without them. ―Anna Taylor
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. ―John Katz
Friends are relatives you make for yourself. ―Eustache Deschamps
True friends are never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart. ―Unknown
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. ―Ernest Hemingway
Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way. ―Charles Kingsley
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. ―Elisabeth Foley
It’s the friends you can call up at 4am that matter. ―Marlene Dietrich
As you go through life, you’ll have maybe a handful of friends who are in it for the long haul. A true testament to their character is how consistent they are throughout that friendship. ―Jerry Kramer
Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice. ―Otto von Bismarck
True friendship resists time, distance, and silence. ―Isabel Allende
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ―Marcel Proust
There is nothing I wouldn’t do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature. ―Jane Austen
Friendship is when people know all about you but like you anyway. ―Unknown
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself. ―Jim Morrison
Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives. ―Alexander Dumas
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love, and be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence. ―Sydney Smith
There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends. ―Sylvia Plath
Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. ―Sicilian Proverb
How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away. ―Kahlil Gibran
Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation. ―Samuel Johnson
A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you. ―Elbert Hubbard
Don’t be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends. ―Richard Bach
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
When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier. ―Diane Von Furstenberg
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. ―Henry David Thoreau
In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips. ―Unknown
Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends. ―H. Jackson Brown Jr.
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
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ―Ed Cunningham
A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are. ―Unknown
There is nothing better than a friend unless it is a friend with chocolate. ―Linda Grayson
One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words, they lie concealed in the silence between the words or in the depth of what is unsayable between two people. ―John O’Donohue
Some people only get called by their nicknames. Usually, it sounds weird to even say their real name. ―Kishore
Women’s friendships are like a renewable source of power. ―Jane Fonda
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. ―Samuel Butler
Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up. ―Thomas J. Watson
They make me stronger; they make me braver. ―Jane Fonda
The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn’t exist. ―Aaron Machado
Friends are people who know you really well and like you anyway. ―Greg Tamblyn
A good friend knows all your best stories, but a best friend has lived them with you. ―Unknown
Life is better with friends
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. ―Alice Walker
Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected. ―C.J. Langenhoven
Where there are friends, there is wealth. ―Titus Maccius Plautus
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. ―George Washington
A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden. ―Unknown
Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re there.
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends. ―Jacques Delille
A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence; which costs us nothing. —John Tillotson
Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend. ―Sarah Desse
Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God’s greatest gifts. It involves many things but above all the power of going out of one’s self and appreciating what is noble and loving in another. ―Thomas Hughes
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. ―Ralph Waldo Emerson
When a woman like that whom I’ve seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man. ―Alice Duer Miller
Theres nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend.
Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship. ―Dorothy Parker
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long. ―Robert Staughton Lynd
A friend is a gift you give yourself. ―Robert Louis Stevenson
Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies. ―Richelle Mead
A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad. ―Arnold H. Glasgow
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. ―Dale Carnegie
Friendship isn’t a big thing, it’s a million little things. ―Unknown
Best friends: they know how crazy you are and still choose to be seen with you in public
We’ll be the old ladies causing trouble in the nursing homes. ―Unknown
One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about. ―Mindy Kaling
No matter how tired I am, I get dinner at least once a week with my girlfriends. Or have a sleepover. Otherwise, my life is just all work. ―Jennifer Lawrence
Good friends discuss their sex lives. Best friends talk about poop. ―Unknown
A sweet friendship refreshes the soul. ―Proverbs 27:94
Being honest may not get you a lot of friends. But it’ll always get you the right ones.
The language of friendship is not words but meanings. ―Henry David Thoreau
There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. ―Emilie Saint-Genis
A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth. ―Charles Darwin
Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher. ―Oprah Winfrey
Best friends loan out DVDs knowing that they’ll never be seen again. ―Unknown
Give your enemy a thousand chances to become your friend, but do not give your friend a single chance to become your enemy.
‘Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected. ―Charles Lamb
Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world. ―John Evelyn
In addition to helping us grow and giving us pleasure and providing aid and comfort, our intimate friendships shield us from loneliness. ―Judith Viorst
You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. ―John Churton Collins
True friends are always together in spirit. ―L.M. Montgomery
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. ―Ann Landers
Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them. ―Edwin Arlington Robinson
A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself. ―Frances Ward Weller
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won’t go. ―Margaret Walker
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. ―Euripides
You find out who your real friends are when you’re involved in a scandal. ―Elizabeth Taylor
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. ―Henry Ford
Social media technology has captured the attention of the public by misrepresenting the term “friend” and the concept known as “friendship.” ―Martin Murphy
When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. Japanese Proverb
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
Sometimes me think, ‘What is friend?’ Then me say, ‘Friend is someone to share the last cookie with.’ ―Cookie Monster
Between friends, differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality. ―W.H. Auden
At some point in your childhood, you and your friends went outside to play together for the last time, and nobody knew it
Friendship is like peeing in your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel the warm feeling inside. ―Unknown
Every friendship travels at some time through the black valley of despair. This tests every aspect of your affection. You lose the attraction and the magic. ―John O’Donohue
The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most. ―Dale Carnegie
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. ―Elie Wiesel
I learned that a real friendship is not about what you can get, but what you can give. Real friendship is about making sacrifices and investing in people to help them improve their lives. ―Eric Thomas
Awards become corroded. Friends gather no dust. ―Jesse Owens
Most of us don’t need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with. ―Robert Brault
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. ―Woodrow T. Wilson
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. ―Bernard Meltzer
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. ―Unknown
There are friends, there is family, and then there are friends that become family. ―Unknown
Be careful who you call your friends. Id rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies.
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief. ―Cicero
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. ―Buddha
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.
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. ―Virginia Woolf
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joy, and dividing our grief. ―Joseph Addison
Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead; do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead. ―Anna Cummins
Friendship flourishes at the fountain of forgiveness. ―William Arthur Ward
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out
A friend is one of the nicest things you can have and one of the best things you can be. ―Winnie The Pooh
Some souls just understand each other upon meeting. ―N. R. Hart
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
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. ―Laurence J. Peter
Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality. ―Rowan Williams
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