Best Friend Quotes

It is easy to love your friend, but sometimes the hardest lesson to learn is to love your enemy.

Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

I defeat my enemies when I make them my friends.

Friendship takes time and energy if it's going to work.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Confidence is the greatest friend.

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Someone who points out your flaws to you is not necessarily your enemy. Someone who speaks of your virtues is not necessarily your friend.

Fear is your worst enemy. Risk is your best friend.

The one who praises you is a thief. The one who criticizes you is your true friend.

If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.

There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.

Words are easy, like the wind; faithful friends are hard to find.

The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.

Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.

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.

A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.

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.

If you have good friends, no matter how much life is sucking , they can make you laugh.

True friends are always together in spirit.

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.

There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.

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.

Harry - you're a great wizard, you know." "I'm not as good as you," said Harry, very embarrassed, as she let go of him. "Me!" said Hermione. "Books! And cleverness! There are more important things - friendship and bravery and - oh Harry - be careful!

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?

The best mirror is an old friend.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.

It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire to be close.

Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.

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.

Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.

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.

There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.

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.

Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.

Talk between women friends is always therapy...

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.

No friendship is an accident.

Friends are the family you choose ( NinIthilnin, Elven rogue).

Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.

Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.

A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

No human relation gives one possession in anotherevery two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.

I don't want to hurt you or anybody so please forget about me. Just try. Find yourself a better friend.

Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation.

I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry...I'm here. The flood waters will recede, the famine will end, the sun will shine tomorrow, and I will always be here to take care of you.

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.

You think I'm a fool?" demanded Harry. "No, I think you're like James," said Lupin, "who would have regarded it as the height of dishonor to mistrust his friends.

Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts. -Maggie

Sam and Patrick looked at me. And I looked at them. And I think they knew. Not anything specific really. They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend.

Two a.m.' He swallowed, then said, "You know. The person you can call at two a.m. and, no matter what, you can count on them. Even if they're asleep or it's cold or you need to be bailed out of jail...they'll come for you. It's like, the highest level of friendship.

Give your friendships the magic you would give a romance. Because they're just as important. Actually, for us, they're way more important.

When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

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.

Nearly everything I know about love, I've learnt from my long-term friendships with women.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

True friends are like diamonds bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief

One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.

Being in a relationship, that's something you choose. Being friends, that's just something you are. But I do pick you. We've been friends too long to pick, but if we could pick, I'd pick you.

Friendships take minutes to make, moments to break, years to repair.

New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.

Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended

A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you.

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after awhile and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came.

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.

Was I ever crazy? Maybe. Or maybe life is Crazy isnt being broken or swallowing a dark secret. Its you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever. They were not perfect, but they were my friends.

What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.

I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.

When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.

Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Two things you will never have to chase: True friends true love.

Real friends are the ones you can count on no matter what. The ones who go into the forest to find you and bring you home. And real friends never have to tell you that theyre your friends.

Friends dont spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.

Andrea raised her hand. This is the hand that slapped Aunt B. Maybe you should have it gold-plated. Here, you can touch it, since youre my best friend.

Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy.

True friends are those who came into your life, saw the most negative part of you, but are not ready to leave you, no matter how contagious you are to them.

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.

And he looked lonely enough that she said, 'If you like, you could be my friend'.

Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone.

I hadnt been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.

... the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.

A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion

Your truest friends are the ones who will stand by you in your darkest moments--because they're willing to brave the shadows with you--and in your greatest moments--because they're not afraid to let you shine.

Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

A fragment for my friend-- If your soul left this earth I would follow and find you Silent, my starship suspended in night

Everyone has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.

He looked at his friend, perhaps for the last time, and said what he had always known, from the moment theyd met, when hed understood that the prince was his brother in soul. I love you.

Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can't see the tiny outstretched hands all around them, everywhere, like leaves on trees.

There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.

You know a real friend? Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

A messy house is a must - it separates your true friends from other friends. Real friends are there to visit you not your house!

By chance we met, by choice we become friend

A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world.

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away

What is love? two souls and one flesh; friendship? two bodies and one soul.

Friendships between women, as any woman will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses... swapped back and forth and over again.

One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.

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.

I despise the rituals of fake friendship. I wish we could just claw each other's eyes out and call it a day; instead we put on huge radiant smiles and spout compliments until our teeth hurt from the saccharine sweetness of it all.

Friendship is selfless love, care, respect, and honor not a profitable opportunity.

Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it.

Just because I've gone and snagged myself a hot boyfriend doesn't mean I'm going to leave my bestfriend high and dry.

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.

So when you're cold From the inside out And don't know what to do, Remember love and friendship, And warmth will come to you.

He that is thy friend indeed, He will help thee in thy need: If thou sorrow, he will weep; If thou wake, he cannot sleep: Thus of every grief in heart He with thee doth bear a part. These are certain signs to know Faithful friend from flattering foe.

Friends ask you questions; enemies question you.

Because the difference between a friend and a real friend is that you and the real friend come from the same territory, of the same place deep inside you, and that means you see the world in the same kind of way. You know each other even before you do.

I hope we'll be friends forever, together we'll always be. I don't think you understand just how much you mean to me. And one day when we part our ways, we'll think back to the past and think about how happy we are 'cause our friendship will always last.

The Sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.

Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected.

Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.

I've learnt some Things. Like the way friendship can be just as intense, beautiful and endless as romance. Like the way there's love everywhere around me - there's love for my friends, there's love for my paintings, there's love for myself.

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

If you have but one friend, make sure you choose her well.

Friendship often ends in love. But love in friendship; never.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

A true friend is a gift from God. Since God doesn't exist, guess what? Neither do true friends.

We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered. Winnie-the-Pooh

You have some queer friends, Dorothy,' she said. The queerness doesn't matter, so long as they're friends,' was the answer

A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.

No matter how far you take it with your friends, whether you're fighting with them or you hate them for two months, you just really need them, because they're the ones who teach you the most about yourself.

I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?

Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.

Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.

A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

Female friendships that work are relationships in which women help each other belong to themselves.

Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is, because you know people who have similar experiences.

True friends will always push you towards the great possibilities of your future, false friends will always chain you to the mistakes in your past.

A friend is someone who knows where all your bodies are buried. Because they're the ones who helped you put them there." And sometimes, if you're really lucky, they help you dig them back up.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

The most valuable gift you can receive is an honest friend.

It makes no sense to try to extend a friendship that was only meant to be a season into a lifetime.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work but the solidest things we know.

It is absolutely okay with me if you need to keep some secrets. I've been thinking about this and I decided that a best friend is someone who, when they don't understand, they still understand.

You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.

Nobody steals books but your friends.

What a desperate, pathetic fool I was. Time after time, my "friends" had shown me their true colors. Yet, I still wanted to believe they were sorry for causing me pain. p. 128

Often people that criticise your life are usually the same people that don't know the price you paid to get where you are today. True friends see the full picture of your soul.

There are times when friendship feels like running down a hill together as fast as you can, jumping over things, spinning around, and you don't care where you're going, and you don't care where you've come from, because all that matters is speed, and the hands holding your hands.

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

Never give up on your friends. Never give up your faith in them. It's when everything is worse than you could ever imagine it could be, that you'll need your friends the most.

Never hold resentments for the person who tells you what you need to hear; count them among your truest, most caring, and valuable friends.

What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.

It's all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our friends?

"...were all fucking Duffs. (Designated Ugly Fat Friend) Im not the Duff, Wesley said confidently. Thats because you dont have friends. (Bianca) Oh. Right.

Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.

The only true test of friendship is the time your friend spends on you.

It may...be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character.

If you walked away from a toxic, negative, abusive, one-sided, dead-end low vibrational relationship or friendship you won.

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

We need to remember what's important in life: friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work. Doesn't matter, but work is third.

If you're my friend I should be able to talk to you but I can't, and if I can't talk to you, well, what is the point of you? Of us?

My shadow serves as the friend I crave.

...you'll find that being a friend is to like a person for who they are, even the parts you don't understand. You don't have to understand, or do the same, or live their lives for them. If you truly care for them, then you want them to be who they are; that was why you liked them in the first place.

Best friends, no matter what they do or how much they hurt you, it only hurts as much as it does because they are your best friend. And none of us are perfect. Mistakes were made for best friends to forgive; its what makes being a best friend official.

The friends you make in college are friends you'll have for life, even if you don't talk for years at a time.

Nothing of real worth can ever be bought. Love, friendship, honour, valour, respect. All these things have to be earned.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

I look back now and realize that the gift of a true friend is that she sees you not the way you see yourself or the way others see you. A true friend sees you for who you are and who you can become.

A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself

It's much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.

There are still some wonderful people left in this world! They are diamonds in the rough, but they're around! You'll find them when you fall down they're the ones who pick you up, who don't judge, and you had to fall down to see them! When you get up again, remember who your true friends are!

Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.

God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rather than for our own.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.

True friendship can exist only between equals.

Many people walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.

Yeah, okay. But, Nico, you do choose how to live your life. You want to trust somebody? Maybe take a risk that I'm really your friend and I'll accept you. It's better than hiding.

When they finished laughing they were on their way to being not just friends, but the dearest of friends, the sort of friends whose lives are shaped by the friendship.

Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.

Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.

My friends are everything without me but I am nothing without my friends.

Some people you meet and they're your friend for a day. Some you meet and you never really know at all. And then there are those who get caught inside your soul and stay there forever.

Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important thing--not career or housework, or one's fatigue--and it needs to be tended and nurtured.

I'm so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much.

When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far.

What is a friend if not someone you feel close to, someone you like being with, someone you can confide in and share pleasure with. -Jeremy Malory-

A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more." True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

You're my closest friend and you're thousands of miles away.

If you claim to be a real friend then be real in your soul. If you claim to be fake then be an enemy instead.

People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people.

In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make only one heart with only a common thought. That is why separation is so painful; it is not so much two hearts separating, but one being torn asunder.

A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.

I understand you, and I shall not attempt to make you change your mind. I am too old to want to improve the world. I have told you what I think, and that is all. I shall remain your friend even if you act contrary to my convictions, and I shall help you even if I disagree with you.

Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.

The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but that, having been given, it makes no difference at all.

A few said they'd be horses. Most said they'd be some sort of cat. My friend said she'd like to come back as a porcupine. I don't like crowds, she said.

She recognized that that is how friendships begin: one person reveals a moment of strangeness, and the other person decides just to listen and not exploit it.

Maybe friendship is being the guardian of another person's hope. Leave it with me and I'll look after it for a while , if it feels too heavy for now.

Because with true friends, no one is keeping score. But it still feels good to repay them even in the tiniest increments.

He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

Silence can be breathing space and spawn release and wellness in a time of appalling inflation of words. But silence may be intolerably screaming, if it means absence of communication, deficiency in friendship and emotional deficit. ( A gap of silence)

Here's champagne for our real friends, and real pain for our sham friends.

It's better to have a few faithful friends than numerous shallow friendships.

One only understands the things that one tames, said the fox. Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me. . .

I'm your friend, and friends don't let friends die.

If you can't be honest with your friends and colleagues and loved ones, then what is life all about?

You're the one who is weak. You will never know love or friendship. And I feel sorry for you.

He was the strangest of strangers in that he was also her oldest friend.

...writers are a savage breed, Mr. Strike. If you want life-long friendship and selfless camaraderie, join the army and learn to kill. If you want a lifetime of temporary alliances with peers who will glory in your every failure, write novels.

Its never the value of water but thirst, its never the value of life but death and its never about the friendship but trust.

That's what friends do: they notice things. They're there for each other. They see what parents don't.

There is no honour in betraying your friends.

Friendship is a relationship that has no formal shape, there are no rules or obligations or bonds as in marriage or the family, it is held together by neither law nor property nor blood, there is no glue in it but mutual liking. It is therefore rare.

Once a friend, always a friend. Why should borders stop that?

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship

I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.

I think a friend is someone who helps you change for the better. And whether you see them once a day or once a year, if it's a true friend, it doesn't matter.

To make real friends you have to put yourself out there. Sometimes people will let you down, but you can't let that stop you. If you get hurt, you just pick yourself up, dust off your feelings, and try again.

Elpidio sensed that David had more to say but was holding back due to their friendship. He wondered why David had gone along with Emiliana's seemingly impulsive ideas.

Wherever it is you may be, it is your friends who make your world.

Fireheartmewed,"It's not my place to judge you." Greystripe looked up as Fireheart went on." Greystripe, whatever you decide to do, I will always be your friend.

Never mind, said Hachiko each day. Here I wait, for my friend whos late. I will stay, just to walk beside you for one more day.

If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by a false and empty consolation, how much more pleasant are letters which bring us the written characters of the absent friend.

...the tenure of friendships has never been governed by the passage of time.

My books are friends that never fail me." (Letter to his mother, Margaret A. Carlyle; 17 March 1817)

As you walk through forests or the meadows of your mind, Stop and talk to those you fear Good friendships you may find

Friendship, Marx said, is kind of like having a Tamagotchi.

Sometimes friends make mistakes. Grievous ones that cry out for us to stay and prove we are true friends.

She was my friend and I loved her and relied on her, even though there were days when her moodiness and fragility frightened me, because they reminded me of my own tenuous grasp on life.

I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.

Ive got a new friend, all right. But what a gamble friendship is! Charlotte is fierce, brutal, scheming, bloodthirstyeverything I dont like. How can I learn to like her, even though she is pretty and, of course, clever?

Whats so phony nowadays is all this familiarity. Pretending there isnt any difference between people well, like you were saying about minorities, this morning. If you and I are no different, what do we have to give each other? How can we ever be friends?

So I guess you could say Neel owes me a few favors, except that so many favors have passed between us now that they are no longer distinguishable as individual acts, just a bright haze of loyalty. Our friendship is a nebula.

Clary," he said. "You're Clary. You're my best friend.

Why are you being so mean?" "Friends tell friends the truth." "yeah, but not to hurt, to help.

The distant soul can shake the distant friend's soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles.

A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably

He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.

The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal one.

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who have helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Look around you at the people you spend the most time with and realize that your life cant rise any higher than your friendships.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

I have never bought into the idea that blood is thicker than water. Love and respect are meant to be earned from our children, our spouses, our families, and our friends.

Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything.

You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.

A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum.

Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away.

You know, when I first met Gansey,I couldn't figure out why he was friends with someone like Ronan. Gansey was always in class, always getting stuff done, always a teacher's pet. And here was Ronan, like a heart attack that never stopped.

For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.

The lifelong friends, he said. We sometimes wait a lifetime for them.

Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.

Love is friendship. Just with less clothes, which makes it far more brilliant.

It's b to think of friendship and romance being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variatons of the same desire to be close.

Some guys step on a rake in the dark, and get mad and go punch somebody. Others step on a rake in the dark and fall down laughing at themselves. I know which kind of guy I'd rather be. So do my friends.

It is possible to cause seemingly biochemical changes through human emotional involvement. You literally have changed his chemistry by being his friend.

Tell me, where in life is there a value that would make us consider suicide uncalled for on principle! Love? Or friendship? I guarantee that friendship is not a bit less fickle than love and it is impossible to build anything on it. Self-love? I wish it were possible.

Spiritual friendship is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways.

That's the problem with best friends. Sometimes they know you better than you know yourself.

Undeserved forgiveness. Friendship defined.

The cracks in old friendships are measured in awkward pauses.

May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.

Of all the things that are beyond my power, I value nothing more highly than to be allowed the honor of entering into bonds of friendship with people who sincerely love truth. For, of things beyond our power, I believe there is nothing in the world which we can love with tranquility except such men.

A friend is someone that asks, 'how are you,' and really wants to hear the truth.

A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.

Some friends gladly stay, some move away. Some come and go, but their affections grow. While some, I recall, are not friends at all.

How about "diamonds are a girl's best friends"? Nope. It should be switched around and pointed out, instead, that your best friends are diamonds.

Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.

Friends become wiser together through a healthy clash of viewpoints.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand.

A true friend is a light in the dark. Viven

A White Tiger keeps no friends. It's too dangerous.

I hate it when people say theyre trying to be your friend. You shouldnt have to try to be somebodys friend. Either you like someone or you dont. Either you want them as a friend or not. Making friends isnt like trying for the lead in the school play.

I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend.

Perhaps he does not want to be friends with you until he knows what you are like. With owls, it is never easy-come-easy-go.

Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, "Yes. But I bet no dog would ever confess it to the other dogs.

When you move as much as I have...you know how it ends. You promise to stay in touch with people, but it doesn't work out. It never does. And you forgot about what the friendship used to be like, why you liked that person. And I hated it. And I just didn't want to do it again. Not with you.

I think that real friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds.

Friends arent forever. Theyre not even for a while. They come into your life and they leave when something or someone changes. Nothing grounds them to you. Not blood or loyalty. Theyre justfleeting.-Daisy Calloway

A friend is more to be longed for than the light; I speak of a genuine one. And wonder not: for it were better for us that the sun should be extinguished, than that we should be deprived of friends; better to live in darkness, than to be without friends

Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue - perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one.

Friendship that insists upon agreement on all things isn't worth the name.

A true best friend loves you even when it seems like you've gone off the deep end.

True friendhip is like sound health: the value of it is seldom know until it is lost.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness in another.

Ah, two firm friends, reunited at last! There should be sweet violin music playing for us, but I'll settle for the screams of the dying.

Friends are born, not made.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

Bein friends is like being soldiers in the army. You live together, you fight together; you die together.

I don't believe for a minute-that we wouldn't have become friends somehow-that an unexploded bomb wouldn't have gone off and blown us both into the same crater, or that God himself wouldn't have come along and knocked our heads together in a flash of green sunlight. But it wouldn't have been likely.

It's a little hard not to worry when my best friend keeps on dying.

The kindest way of helping yourself is to find a friend

Love should not be polluted with friendship.

Friends you will have need of, for in you two worlds meet. There is no one on both sides with you, so you must learn to take your own counsel; and not to fear what is strange, if you know it also to be true.

The whole point of being a good friend is being in the darkness. Ill be your light, until you can be it yourself again.

Martin is your best friend, isn't he?' a sweet and well-intentioned girl once said when both of us were present: it was the only time I ever felt awkward about this precious idea, which seemed somehow to risk diminishment if it were uttered aloud.

The great thing about true best friends is that when you go MIA for a few months, they inquire but they dont press. Best friends know the power of infatuation but also how quickly it dissipates. You just have to wait it out. And then afterward, tease them about it for decades.

O friend, for the morrow let us not worry This moment we have now, let us not hurry When our time comes, we shall not tarry With seven thousand-year-olds, our burden carry

If this is how you treat your friends, no wonder you have so many enemies.

Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.

Hello, companion," said Magnus. The monkey made a terrible sound, half snarl and half hiss. "I begin to rather doubt the beauty of our friendship," said Magnus.

My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.

I truly believe that if you have more friends than books, you have too many friends. Or not enough books. Probably both.

Is that your reason for fighting?! We're different!!! We fight for the sake of our injured friends!!! No matter if our opponents are humans, demons, or even gods!!!

I am not capable of true friendship. One of the two friends is always the slave of the other, although, often, neither of the two admits this to himself.

A friend is someone who walks into a room when everyone else is walking out.

Leeda knew friends never turned out to be what you expected. They came and went in waves, pulling away and coming back, leaving you feeling safe one minute and lost the next.

If all my friends jumped off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them. I'd be at the bottom, hoping to catch them.

And like a favorite old movie, sometimes the sameness in a friend is what you like the most about her.

December is an old friend; it reminds you of the past, together you share some laughs and tears, you feel warm-hearted though its freezing outside. But, the goodbye is inevitable. May the memories we share with this friend next year be filled with comfort, peace and Love.

Psyche you out?" I repeat. "I'm your FRIEND. I wouldn't do that." He doesn't say anything. I can tell he doesn't believe me-not quite.

Even enemies were an inch away from friendship.

That was our friendship: equal parts irritation and cooperation.

I finally faced the fact that it isnt a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.

Senses of humor define people, as factions, deeper rooted than religious or political opinions. When carrying out everyday tasks, opinions are rather easy to set aside, but those whom a person shares a sense of humor with are his closest friends. They are always there to make the biggest influence.

Friendship is an obstetric art; it draws out our richest and deepest resources; it unfolds the wings of our dreams and hidden indeterminate thoughts; it serves as a check on our judgements, tries out our new ideas, keeps up our ardor, and inflames our enthusiasm.

Life is a bitter sweet journey my friend, a bitter sweet journey.

When we're all alone, it might be to frightening to bear... but we're all right beside each other. We've got our friends close by! Now, there's nothing to fear! Because we're not alone!!!

As you go through life's rich tapestry, you realize that most people you meet aren't fit to shine your shoes. It's a sad fact, but it's true. A good friend is someone who'd hide you if you were on the run for murder. How many of them do you know?

If it's easy to be friendly she will be. If the wind blows the other way her friendship will be gone. And I'm thinking the wind is blowing the other way. She has found some other way to be an important person in her own right by hating others.

But then I wondered if sometimes our friendships are a bit like clothes and when they start feeling uncomfortable it's not because we've done anything wrong. It just means that we've outgrown them.

I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn't be the cost of failure for a good friend.

I have been a friend to Shadowhunters. I know many of your families, going back for hundreds of years." "There is nothing we can do to correct the questionable judgments of our ancestors," Lucian said. Magnus hated this guy.

It's my job as best friend to make sure he's not a serial killer. Or an English major, not sure which one's worse.

I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future plusses.

It was a lesson most people learned much earlier; that even friendship could have an undisclosed shelf life. That loyalty and affection, so consuming and powerful, could dissipate like fog.

Into the dark night Resignedly I go, I am not so afraid of the dark night As the friends I do not know, I do not fear the night above As I fear the friends below.

You're lucky to have a friend who will kill for you." So. I once had a friend who died for me, and now one who killed for me. Why didn't I feel lucky?

I choose my battles, Dresden. Not you." She looked up at me calmly. "Let me put this in terms that will get through your skull: My friend is going to save a child from monsters. I'm going with him. That's what friends do, Harry.

It was a little weird that they were friends. But then, maybe freaks just tended to find each other.

Friends are a weird thing. It seems like they know all about you, but then they dont understand you at all.

We watch her walk into the spotlight shes been been hiding from most of her life. Sure, friendship is all about believing in someone so hard they believe it, too. Sure, its about trust. But if anyone hurts her tonight, its about ripping them apart with my bare hands and really enjoying it.

As I get older I find that the friendships that are the most certain, ultimately, are the ones where you and the other person have made substantial amounts of money for one another.

Happy is the soul that has a friend. Happier is the soul that trusts in the truth of the heart of a friend. Happiest is the soul that knows the solemnity of friendship and honours its laws.

Under every friendship there is a difficult sentence that must be said, in order that the friendship can be survived.

Few words are more chilling when put together than make friends. The command to pair bond sent ice water through Stevies veins. She wanted falling rocks. But she knew what would happen if she didnt do the talkingher parents would. And if her parents started, anything could happen.

Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting.

A foe to God was never true friend to man

YOU MAY HAVE LOTS OF FRIENDS NOW, BUT ONLY IN TOUGH TIMES, WILL YOU KNOW WHO THE REAL ONES ARE.

It's easy to be friends with when shares the same opinions.

Live in the present. Take care of the relationships in front of you now. Most friendships have a natural life, and when they've lived that out, you'll know.

I hate it when people talk like friendship is less than other kinds of - as though it's some kind of runner-up prize for people who can't have sex.

Thats what happens to friends, eventually. They leave you. Its practically what theyre for.

Friendship is thinking of the other person first.

The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!

Friendship is not a gift, but is the result of hard work.

We can be friends. We can be anything we want to be.

A genuine enemy is more useful than a fake friend.

Sometimes you meet people and know immediately that they were meant to be your friend.

Nothing firms up a friendship like a good-natured argument.

I am happy. I am very happy. This morning when I woke up I felt good because the sun was shining. I felt good because I was a frog. And I felt good because I have you as a friend. I wanted to be alone. I wanted to think about how fine everything is.

She realized all at once that Doon, thin, dark eyed Doon, with his troublesome temper and his terrible brown jacket, and his good heart---- was the person she knew better than anyone now. He was her best friend. --City of Ember--

When we make friends then we change from being animals to being human.

Without a best friend to tell stories to, it almost didn't matter if they even happened.

We pick our friends not only because they are kind and enjoyable company, but also, perhaps more importantly, because they understand us for who we think we are.

I went to him in the doorway and embraced him tightly. "Thank you," I whispered. "You've done so much for us, and we've done nothing for you." "Don't say that." Vic's hands patted my back. "You're my friends. Nothing else to it.

Pain is strong, aye - but friends' eyes, more strong." I told him that he knows next to nothing about me I know nothing about him. He jabbed at his eyes jabbed at mine, as if that single gesture were ample explanation.

I would rather have 1 amazing best friend than 100 decent regular friends. It's not about quantity, it's about quality.

True friends don't come with conditions.

Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don't know what to say.

A life without friends is like a sky without stars.

These were the companions who justified my principles, who gave me the strength to continue against any foe, real or imagined. These were the companions who fought the helplessness, the rage, and frustration. These were the friends who gave me my life.

If you can eat with mates or friends or family, I mean, it's such a brilliant thing isn't it? If you feel really rubbish and you have a nice bit of food it makes you feel good, you know?

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... To find one real friend in a lifetime is a good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

If you wish to befriend someone, look for a person who loves first God then themselves. If they love God, they will be able to love their neighbor, too.

Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.

It is as easy to find a lover as to keep a friend, but as hard to find a friend as to keep a lover.

Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.

But people get over grief. They get over even the most serious grief in a matter of years. If not get over then at least live beside. And the way they do this is by investing in other people, through friendship, through family, through teaching, through love.

Fake friends are like snow flakes. They descend in their thousands. They disappear in seconds.

In the age of social media, friends are like snow flakes. They descend in their thousands. They disappear in seconds.

Friends show their true colors in times of need; and not in times of happiness.

friend is someone you can trust and admits you whatever you are

Even when I'm alone I have real good company dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I like to be alone now and then, just to think over things and taste them. But I love friendships and nice, jolly little times with people.

Friendship isn't a science mudboy. Just do what you think is right.

There can't be a quarrel without two parties, and I won't be one. I will be a friend to you in spite of you. So now you know what you've got to expect

For no one, in our long decline, So dusty, spiteful and divided, Had quite such pleasant friends as mine, Or loved them half as much as I did.

Forever and ever Bonnie, I will always be your friend.

Get over it, Roo. If you have friends who actually like you, youre popular enough.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

If my tears spilled spontaneously at that moment its because I immediately understood that what was happening, like in a dream, was the treat you had prepared for me I felt your friendship much stronger than if you had thanked me a million times that what pleased and touched me.

I never say the things I really want to. If I did, I'd have no friends.

Meeting you was fate.. Becoming your friend was a choice.. But falling in love with you I had no control over.

Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!

A friend in power is a friend lost.

Friendship is the most important thing in my life. It's rare to have friends like I've got. If I had as great a taste in husbands as I have in friends, what an even better life I would have had!

Friendship isnt be inseparable it's be separated and knowing nothing will change.

When I was little, my dad used to tell me, "Will, you can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friends nose.

Friendship is a give and take. You have to have a strong relationship with your friend and I think you have to offer them something and they have to offer you something and thats to always learn from it.

Friends tell each other what nobody else is willing to tell you.

Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach.

It's sometimes easier to help others rather than helping yourself. The trick is to listen to your "self" as a friend. This may be the simplest change you ever make in life, with the biggest impact.

Sometimes friends do go from us-it will happen more and more as you grow up, Chugg. But if you really love your friends, they're never really gone. Somewhere they're watching over you and they're always there inside your heart. -Martin

A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was an avatar. One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of this weary pilgrimage." Samuel Johnson

It is good to dress in fair clothes to dine with friends. It honors your host, if you are a guest; and your guest if you are a host. And both adorn the feast, and so celebrate the gifts of the world.

How could you carry the inside of a person with you and not call them a friend, no matter what the rules said?

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

A true friend finds a way to celebrateeven in the worst moments of lifeand forces it upon you.

Having friends was really important, wasn't it? Even if sometimes they did stuff which upset you?

That's the way girls are isn't it? They swear eternal friendship, and then as soon as a man's in the case it's all forgotten.

Let us even bid our dearest friends farewell, and defy them, saying, "Who are you? Unhand me: I will be dependent no more." Ah! seest thou not, O brother, that thus we part only to meet again on a higher platform, and only be more each other's, because we are more our own?

An Eastern poet, Ali Ben Abu Taleb, writes with sad truth, "He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

Friendship's enemy is betrayal.

Whatever it means to be a friend, taking a black eye for someone has to be in it.

Friendship is more than talent. It is more than government. It is almost the equal of family. Never forget that. If you had built up a wall of friendship you wouldn't have to ask me to help. - Don Corleone

I was a man before I was a king, and no true man walks away when a friend needs him.

Girlfriends and boyfriends come and go. The good times had with them are easily forgotten. But best friends stay in your heart forever.

Good female friendships are the strongest relationships in the world.

Ros was dead. He had loved heroin more than it loved him. I was shocked beyond imagining; he was the first of my friends to fall.

You cant really yell at your boyfriend for stealing your seat and your best friend. You also cant yell at your best friend for stealing your boyfriend. Or you canbut Hi seemed like a much easier way to start the morning.

I can take everything on her face at face value, and that's valuable in a friend.

O you youths, Western youths, So impatient, full of action, full of manly pride and friendship, Plain I see you Western youths, see you tramping with the foremost, Pioneers! O pioneers!

More than friends, eh? More than friends... You know, my mother once told me that half of the hatred that springs up between people is rooted in this mistaken belief that there's any human relationship more sacred than friendship.

Be grateful when you have friends who care for you, it's a blessing to see nice happy people around us.

For I have hedged me with a thorny hedge, I live alone, I look to die alone: Yet sometimes, when a wind sighs through the sedge, Ghosts of my buried years, and friends come back, My heart goes sighing after swallows flown On sometime summer's unreturning track.

Friends never turn as enemies. If they did, they were never your friends at all.

Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful

Where's the point in fighting and slaying if you can make a friend out of anybeast instead of a foe?

He thought of her often, and he missed the companionship they'd once shared and the friendship that had been the bedrock of their marriage at its best.

If you are a guild, take care of your friends. That is all I have to say.

Friendship is something that gets harder to understand, every damn year of my life.Friendship is like a kind of algebra test that nobody passes. In my worst moods, I think the best you can say is that a friend is anyone you don't despise.

Now Doon seemed to care for his new friends more than he did for her. Every time she thought about him she felt a thud of pain, like a bruised place inside her.

Depressing thought: my friends were the girls I ate lunch with, all buddies from kindergarten who knew one another so well we weren't sure if we even liked one another anymore.

What's the point of opening yourself up to your friends if they don't notice your vulnerable state? The point of it all is to love friends completely and utterly, at their best and worst, and to love more than just the good things.

Because you're my friend, wingnut.

My dad once said... "Some friends are like "rubber wrappers"; they bind with you safely but get weaker when you stretch them too much". Treat your friends with care, else the elasticity of their love for you may not go lasting!

To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off

Friendship is vowing toward immortality and does not know the passing away of beauty (Though take care!) because it aims for the spirit. Many years ago through loss I learned that love is wrung from our inmost heart until only the loved one is and we are not.

Elli-" Neve lies down next to him. "It is not easy being friend with someone who has depression. Not because it's a burden, but because you love them. So their pain becomes your own." She rests her hand on his chest. "You really expect me to just sit by and do nothing ?

It's and old, old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that, too.

If more people recognized the difference between friendship and mere attraction, or how love must partake of both to prosper, I expect there'd be more happy people." "And a lot fewer poems and plays," I said, laughing as I splashed about in the scented water.

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).

Friends disappear or they are powerless. This is what misfortune means an acid test of friendship. I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

Sometimes friendship means not having to say anything. Thank yous and apologies can sometimes get lost, but that doesn't mean they're unexpressed," murmured Hermione.

So I heard the boom of my father's rifle when he shot my best friend. A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that.

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.

The common thread from all those stories was that talking helped, and listening, and time. One day I would find my own place. I couldn't run there, though, because it didn't exist yet; I had to build it myself, out of forgiveness, truth, and terrifying gestures of friendship.

I no longer have the energy for meaningless friendships, forced interactions or unnecessary conversations. If we dont vibrate on the same frequency theres just no reason for us to waste our time. Id rather have no one and wait for substance than to not feel someone and fake the funk.

Tragedy, he precieved, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason.

Blue was perfectly aware that it was possible to have a friendship that wasn't all-encompassing, that wasn't blinding, deafening, maddening, quickening. It was just that now that she'd had this kind, she didn't want another.

Thorns may hurt you, men desert you, sunlight turn to fog; but you're never friendless ever, if you have a dog.

Always surround yourself with friends that have plenty of light in them. That way, you will always have candles around you when days are dark.

Ambition had a price, and that price was friendship.

To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a living, but to extend our intercourse beyond our own time and province.

Friendship doesn't disappear like love does.

The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. The soul environs itself with friends, that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude; and it goes alone for a season, that it may exalt its conversation or society.

But the thing is, I didn't make my friends happy and they didn't make me happy. All we did was get stoned out of our minds. That didn't have anything to do with happiness.

Here and there on earth there is probably a kind of continuation of love; in which this greedy desire of two people for each other gives way to a new desire and greed, a shared higher thirst for an ideal above them. But who knows such love? who has experienced it? Its true name is friendship

Actually, I think it's the opposite. We know each other so well there isn't anything left to say. Sometimes it's nice just sitting here with you all, thinking. It's only best friends who can be comfortable with silence, wouldn't you say?

Sometimes it is only a True Friend who knows what we mean when we try to speak. Somebody who has spent a lot of time with us, and listens carefully to what we are trying to say, and tries to understand.

Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person's good.

Friends dont build cages for each other.

A friendship where you're always trying to be considerate of the other person, always worrying about what they think, always responding to every single text, always seeking their approval and then finally connecting with them, isn't friendship at all.

But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end.

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.

Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.

Sometimes friendship is the motherfucking prizes, so be grateful I let you in at all.

There's no love as real as that of a girl and her best friend.

It is in the dark times that the light of friendship shines brightest. (The Walk - Chapter 19, Page 122

A true friend is the one who knows everything about you and still loves you. Eventually, people will forget the things you said or did, but the feelings you woke up in them they will never forget!

The only possible response to someone telling you that they wanted to be friends, or that you were a great friend, was gratitude. Elliot had been friendless long enough that he knew friendship was a prize in itself

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

I think when youre kids, youre less . . . defined? Then you get older and you start deciding what kind of person you want to be, and it doesnt always match up with what your friends are turning into.

This is the real way a friendship ends. Not with some huge screaming row, but with a gradual withdrawal. Youd think it would be less painful this way.

They adore you beacause they think you offer up your friendship and ask for nothing in return. But that's not true-' He took a deep breath. 'You do ask for something. You ask that we never expect you to need us.

Friends come into our lives and friends leave our lives. But friends never leave our hearts. And best friends always get to stay in the best places in our hearts.

At home, besides being Peter or Jane, we also bear a general character; husband or wife, brother or sister, chief, colleague or subordinate. Not among Friends. It is an affair of disentangled, or stripped, minds. Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

We have different interests, fit into different cliques, but the length of our friendship makes most of that unimportant. You go through enough with a person over a long enough period of time and they just become a part of who you are.

Friendship...is not something you learn in school,but if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship you really haven't learned anything.

I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.

If your heart tends to force friends to do as you say, seed of discord is being planted in your relationship.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too?

I'll be your friend so long as you're not crap

(I think Rowdy might be the most important person in my life. maybe more important than my family.) Can your best friend be more importamt than your family?

You can't overdose on friends, only enemies.

And being best friends is always about the benefit of the doubt.

Friendship gives us the strength to turn from lambs into lions.

Too bad Jason wasnt a metal automaton. At least then Leo would have some idea of how to help his best friend. But with humans Leo felt helpless. They broke way too easily.

True friendship never questions what it costs you.

That's the cool thing about having a best friend. They know what your pain feels like already, so you don't have to explain it.

A true friend doesn't have guts; they beat you up and later plead with you to beat them back.

A friend is not the shadow that mimics you, but the one who casts all shadows away.

A true friend is one you can go extended periods without seeing or talking to, yet the moment that you are back in touch, it's like no time has passed at all.

In the high tide or low tide, I'm gonna be your friend... I'm gonna be your friend!

Maybe I'm just sick of putting more into this friendship than I get out of it.

That's how a friendship is built, one small truth at a time. Molly Gray

Archie says books are our best lovers and our most provoking friends.

we may not like it, but we need human friends, because we have human enemies whether we will or nay.

All the friends in the world are in the fountain of a pen.

The Moon is always there. A half blink of shadow, a crescent of an eyelash, opulent in fullness, spellbound in nothingness, and a friend.

It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not read friendship.

Today I know this: when it comes time to take stock, the most painful wound is that of broken friendships; and there is nothing more foolish than to sacrifice a friendship to politics.

There are three types of friends: those like food without which you can't live those like medicine which you need occasionally and those like an illness which you never want.

Hidden yourself in a hole and dared to burden no one with your grievous friendship? I will have friends, Katsa. I will have a life, even though I carry this burden.

Friendship is a strange animal. It only thrives in voluntary enjoyment of each other's company, in the pleasure of nonobligatory connection. I repeat: You owe me nothing.

Sincere deeds invite new friends.

Without the friendship we'd never have discovered the reason we were friends.

As everyone applauds and sips champagne, I smile back at Rachel, thinking she got it just right. Love and friendship. They are what makes us who we are and what can change us, if we let them.

In contravention of my belief that any life ending in death is essentially pointless, I needed my friends to open up that plastic bag and take one last look at me. Someone had to remember me, if only for a few more minutes in the vast silent waiting room of time.

When you're alone is when you can count your friends.

Friends make friends better. We accept the bad parts, celebrate the good parts, and we don't torture you for your mistakes

Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn reasonable and become your enemies, one quarter are afraid to stop and speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.

Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates.

If we had more reliable systems of law and governance perhaps our friendship would be shallower.

In love there are no friends everywhere where there is a pretty woman hostility is open.

Sometimes I lie in bed trying to decide which of my friends I truly care about, and I always come to the same conclusion: none of them.

True friendship is as rare as twin lotuses on a single stalk.

Friendship is more than skin deep.

This isn't 'I do something for you, you do something for me'. This is hard-core friendship. Varsity level. This is me asking you to do something for me without getting anything in return. This is friendship, Howie.

If you've ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you'll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be.

Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.

That was a good day for me," Skulduggery said. "I didn't have to hit anyone. I didn't have to shoot anyone. I just sat around and talked to my good friend and partner, Valkyrie Cain.

If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will lend him your car or your coat - but your books are as much a part of you as your head or your heart.

...it's only on a black day that you begin to have friends.

A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends.

As Harry puts it, men and women can never be friends because 'the sex part always gets in the way.

No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.

I decided that not talking is like a litmus test for a real friend. You can just sit there and be. Not always be filling up the air with words

We've had a beautiful friendship, Diana. We've never marred it by one quarrel or coolness or unkind word; and I hope it will always be so. But things can't be quite the same after this. You'll have other interests. I'll just be on the outside.

For a permanent solution to easing tension and soothe the rough waters of the world that cause people to go to drugs, drinking, gambling, pornography, overeating, or anything that will give them some temporary relief, you cant beat the support and encouragement of a friend.

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.

Better a friend to all his weight in gold.

You send a girl to school in order to make friends - the right sort.

A DAY LAYE" "Every dawn of our lives a heart is forged and Linked with lore to one so similar Born with blessed life dust Stored beneath its soul To bless and pass onto its children Even though the wind may blow it all away Don't ever worry 'cos I'm your friend.

I found, increasingly, that I did not particularly care and I tried to fake a little kindness, a little sweetness, tried to mirror Luna back at herself, but that exhausted me after a week and I concluded that I was not meant for this sort of thing, friends, friendliness, no, I wasn't meant for it.

I don't give a crap if you're a Tangent or a really smart llama. You're my friend and that's all that matters

Where friendship blooms, life is reborn.

I know my life's meaningful because"- and here he stopped, and looked shy, and was silent for a moment before he continued- "because I'm a good friend. i love my friends, and I care about them, and I think I make them happy.

Whatever it means to be a Christian, it at least involves the discovery of friends you did not know you had.

Well, you can't make old friends.

You know power is the best thing in the world because as soon as you have it, everyone is trying to take it from you. No one is ever trying to take your friends away, so that's how you know they're less important.

Thus the Government of our Virtue was broken and I exchang'd the Place of Friend for that unmusical harsh-sounding Title of Whore.

As it is with the love of the body, so with the friendship of the mind, the full is only reached by admittance to the most retired places.

Friends make everything easier. If you want to succeed at a challenge, involve your friends. They have an amazing capacity to lighten physical, emotional, and mental burdens by simply being there.

Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.

the important thing is not what we (look) like,but the role we play in our best friend's life.

Their friendship was like a wilted bunch of flowers that she insisted on topping up with water. Why not let it die instead? It was unrealistic to expect a friendship to last forever

Sounds like the start of a beautiful friendship, Leonard. It really does. Heres looking at you, kid.

Aren't I enough for you?' she asked. 'No,' he said. 'You are enough for me, as far as a woman is concerned. You are all women to me. But I wanted a man friend, as eternal as you and I are eternal.' (Women in Love)

There! Now we're friends!" declared the minx. "Say you're sorry about my sister -" "I am desolated!" "That's a good boy!

A Friend Someone You're happy to see, Who's happy to see you. Someone You like for who they are Not just for what they can do for you.

Friendships sail like any other ship... left unattended, it will drift away" - Sensei Stokes

It was a gusty day, and from the windows of Caroline's top-floor flat, only the sky was visible with its little hurrying clouds. It was a day when being indoors was meaningful, wasting an afternoon in superior confidences with a friend before the two-barred electric heater.

Me too thy nobleness has taught To master my despair; The fountains of my hidden life Are through thy friendship fair.

One can never had too many librarian friends.

Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.

Friendship was a concept men bandied about to save face when they were rejected.

There's a concert tonight and the few friends I've got here have invited me to come out. They aren't my real friends though, mostly because I can't be racist, sexist, or myself around them

and the creation, in the world and above the world, that once was at variance with itself, is knit together in friendship: and we ... are made to join in the angels' song, offering the worship of their praise.

Her eyes take on that suspicious, wounded look girls get when they know they've fallen off the top rung of friendship and someone else has passed them, but they don't know when or how the change took place.

(T)here exist friendships which develop their own inner duration, their own eons of transparent time.

You flounder when they call you 'friend'; you'd probably have a psychotic break when they freaked out over you.

How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper, Solitude is sweet.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Enmity is a mental state, our task is to transform the enmity between the states into deep friendship.

Because he needed a friend so desperately, he never found one.

Eyes shining, mouths open, triumphant, they savored the right of domination. They were lifted up: were friends.

Peace is a place of unhindered enjoyment of friendship beyond guilt, suspicion, blame of inferiority

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give values to survival.

...and their marriage, instead of depriving her of one friend, secured her two.

Maybe friendship was loving someone even when you didn't always understand them.

One in three all friends are: Brothers in distress, equals facing rivals, free men - facing death!

The Good Man Better an enmity from one block than friendship held together by glue.

Who who whose smell in the air of her room, whose fingerprints all over her friends secret places.

Forsake not the friendship of those who have been your staff in adversity, Forget not be benevolence of the blameless.

Forever feels a long time when you're eighteen. When you're away from home for the first time in your life, when you forge instant friendships that are so strong they are destined, surely, to be with you until the bitter end.

In friendship, bond not with a shallow man.

Strong relationships come from well-bonded friendships.

Every men wanted to be his friend and every woman wanted to be in his bed

Lena realized that a fundamental layer of their happiness depended on the four of them being close to one another. Their lives were independent and full. Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives, but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.

A true friend is the one who treats you and gives you advices, exactly as if he is treating himself and giving advices to himself, so if you are a true friend never ever talk about your friends behind their backs, cause you must be sure that you are talking about yourself :)

That, incidentally, gives me the greatest possible pleasurethe knowledge that we are all linked by our friendship with a group of fictional people. What a pleasant club of which to be a member! from the preface; on writing for people around the world

I learned a lot that nightlike how incredibly mind blowing ho-hos and wine coolers were together, how that you could discover the answers to lifes most difficult questions by watching Buffy, but most of all, that no matter what was going on in lifea best friend could make it all seem bearable.

The difference between a friend and an enemy is friendliness.

And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught.

Friends first." "Even before Brett?" "Always," Bekka said. Her lively freckled face was dead serious. "Wow," Melody said in surprise. They really were friends. Hearing it helped her feel it. And feeling it was like sinking deeper into a warm bath.

The friend is a human Eden But Eden is so easily lost When you choose, choose wisely Before you share, count the cost

If you can't sublimate your fear of mortality into sex with your best friend, what's it there for?

In a word, in adversity she was the best of comforters, in good fortune the most troublesome of friends...

People aren't often asked to make life or death decisions. There are no causes to die for. You can go through life never knowing which of your friends would really come through for you

I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.

Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed...

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Men should friendly confer together, and offer one another their gifts and knowledge in love, and try things one with another, and hold that which is best, and not so stand in their own opinion as if they could not err.

The man has an executioners stare and a handshake that could crush a coconut. But scratch beneath the surface, Luna, and you will find the most loyal friend.

Friendships - and indeed most relationships - are measured in the closeness of hearts, minds and soul ties... not in the distance of physical miles or even the passing of time.

You're the only friend I need Sharing beds like little kids And laughing 'til our ribs get tough But that will never be enough You're the only friend I need Sharing beds like little kids And laughing 'til our ribs get tough But that will never be enough

Friendship happens when the distance between the hearts tends to zero.

No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend

The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know - for comedians are the caricatures among us.

I have this thing about friends and secrets. Sometimes when I meet a person I like, I tell them a secret they don't know me well enough to be told. It lets me judge their potential as a friend.

Strangers will show you the way But a true friend will escort you, to your destination. 1st November, 2006

Still not sure about how easily he could be integrated into their posse, Trevor smiled in delighted relief at how tolerantly two of his close friends had received his new identity.

My mother had told me once when I was little and had a friendship fall apart that some relationships just end. Like a star, they burn bright and brilliant, and then nothing in particular goes wrong, they just reach their end.

Its a funny thing, friendship. One minute a person is driving you crazy, making you want to shake them, and the next minute you realize what a crappy place the world would be without them in it.

Friends with spiteful hearts and thousand eyes of evil, mock not my slumbering glory. I just might be the next in line to gain access to the secret fount of good riches.

Nothing in her life makes sense. All she craves is for the pieces of the puzzle to fit together again. She is sure one day it will happen. She just doesnt know when. She cant fight injustice alone for that, she needs her friends.

Choose your friends with caution, plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

A true friend will never do match-making if they dont like the person that makes their friend Happy

Just having friends isnt enough, however. Our friendships should be ones that are pleasing to God and edifying to us as well as our friends.

There are always few friends... we love to make them feel jealous..

If you want to have a friend, then be a friend.

Never exact of a friend in adversity what you would require in prosperity.

Friends with whom you seriously fall out are death. Sometimes it will be completely your fault that this happens, and the shame and sadness of the parting will stay close for a long time.

Friendship throws out deep roots in honest hearts, D'Artagnan. Believe me, it is only the evil-minded who deny friendship; they cannot understand it.

We are ever brutal to those who love and serve us in silence, but the time may come when, for our cruelty, we shall be deserted by these best friends of ours.

A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE .... one friend who always makes her laugh... and one who lets her cry...

Amicu certus in re incerta cernitur' A true friend is a friend when in difficulty

Friendship is the best kind of ship.

How could I ask for a better friend? Someone who gives me a backup plan. Instead of someone who makes me the backup plan.

Choose thy friends like thy books, few but choice

I should explain in view of my last letter, you may find it slightly surprising that Daphne and I are now bosom friends. That is to say, she seems to think we are; and I do not feel that I know her well enough to dispute it.

And in this moment, I realize one reason it's so great to have a best friend is sometimes, like right now, Cal and I are thinking the very same thing.

It's my new best friend, Claudius Templesmith, and as I expected it, he's inviting us to a feast.

Who has not remarked the readiness with which the closest of friends and honestest of men suspect and accuse each other of cheating when they fall out on money matters? Everybody does it. Everybody is right, I suppose, and the world is a rogue.

And here was the moment. The end of it all, for civilization was merely another name for friendship, and friendship was coming to an end.

Taggle looked up at her, his amber eyes as deep as the loneliness Kate had felt before he became her friend. "The traditional thing," he said slowly, "involves the river and a sack.

Emma hung up and hugged her pillow tight to her chest. He shouldn't be making her feel this special and desired. He was just a friend. Right, just a friend. She wasn't even fooling herself anymore.

This was the beginning. The end is easily foreseen; for, given a young man of Dick's temperament, longing for companionship, and another young man of Charlie's makeup, with a legitimate business to bring the two together, and only a friendship of the David and Jonathan order could result.

Pam wasn't what Gloria would have called a friend, just someone she had known for so long that she had given up trying to get rid of her.

Borunia: Why do you want to be my friend? Samarga: I want to know if we can be friends.

Sphere all your lights around, above; Sleep, gentle heavens, before the prow; Sleep, gentle winds, as he sleeps now, My friend, the brother of my love;

Shall we start over?' I say. Juliet shrugs. 'No. This has been an important part of our friendship development.

We both say, 'Aaaaaay,' at the same time, and I think that means we're friends.

Friendship is like a walk in the wood; you may not know the terrain too well or even know where you are headed yet you enjoy it all the same!

. . . and she listened with the heart of a friend who adopts your feelings as her own.

Cyber trolls' deceptive manipulative, political power play, duplicity and devious hypocrisy cannot equate to true friendship. Angelica Hopes, K.H. Trilogy

At other times, he wondered whether it was the world that had lost its color, or his friends themselves. When had everyone become so alike?

Maybe talking like they do -- like every trivial conversation is the height of their youth -- is what being friends is. There's no way I would do that; I'd burst into laughter halfway.

Difficult times help us understand who is a good friend and who is just a friend.

Fire False Friends as early as possible. Do it before they dig out the dream seeds you've planted! The earlier, the better; the quicker, the safer!

What joy to fully know and feel the bond of true friendship.

None fills the void like the company of a true friend.

Fine! He is being passive aggressive with me, and it's gonna backfire; I'm gonna be active friendly.

I won't let my best friends do silly,stupid,annoying,funny things -WITHOUT ME!!!!!!!!!!

The bards sing of love, they celebrate slaughter, they extol kings and flatter queens, but were I a poet I would write in praise of friendship.

Why does this mean so much to you, Jon?" The Prince turned. "Because he's my friend. Because I always know where he stands, and where I stand with him. Because I think he'd die for me and--and I think I'd die for him. Is that enough?

He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they are; that they puzzle themselves as well as their friends; that their psychology is a modern development, and has not yet been understood.

It is proper for people to have friends, friendships without self-interest. Without friends, life is too lonely.

I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful disaster of human life as ever redeemable and redeemed by compassion, friendship and love.

Friendships founded on laughter are always fortuitous.

The bonds of friendship dwindle with age, Oliver. But a little blackmail lasts forever.

Friendships unfold gradually as women share intimacies with one another- this takes time. You need to be willing to let your friends know the real you, but you don't want to spill your guts out the first time you're out to lunch.

You'll notice you don't have both feet on the ground when you don't have any friends around

The clowns eyes sidled towards her, then drew away quickly. But they kept me away from you earlier-and, on my word, you may laugh, but I was lonely for missing friendship.

She had been trying hourly to ensure that this new friendship remained such, to be certain that it would not slip out of the careful grasp of her fingers and into the darker champers of her heart.

My sincere thanks to friends and family, especially my mother, father, brother, and Mandy, who continue to love and support me despite my obsessions.

Friendship is love as much as any romance. And like any love, its difficult and treacherous and confusing. But in the moment when your knees touch, theres nothing else you could ever want.

See, some people politely encourage their tone-deaf friends to sing. Some people even convince them to go on live television and audition for national competitions. But me? I am not that friend.

It's never been my desire to conquer you, Amelia. If you leave this room with me, it must be at my side. As my wife, my lover, my partner ... His thumb brushed her lip. My dearest friend.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan.

The Bible talks primarily of two kinds of angels- Cherubim and Seraphim. But there is a third kind of angel. If you ever find yourself troubled, suffering or in despair, God may send you this third type of angel. These angels are called...'friends.

There is no pain but to genuinely hurt a friend.

...Agatha had declared that her friendship to Georgie still existed, as if it was a living, breathing thing, something that came to life the moment it happened and didn't just go away because they no longer acknowledged it.

Zachary smiles, and I wonder if he's felling different. Because standing out here waist deep in Gossimer Lake, next to my best friend, I'm feeling different-light and good and maybe even holy.

Because I have no actual sisters, it is my friends from Ames whove exposed me to every facet of womanhood.

Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.

Whyd you call, boy? What did you want from me?" "The company of a friend, I think." "Always a cheap treat.

Sometimes, Nathaniel, friends can be like nice boots on a drowning man.

What happens if your best friend is also the revolution?

Hal and Mr. Dart exchanged glances, quite as if they had years of friendship behind them, and for a moment my heart rejoiced in the rightness of the moment.

True friends put their feet on your couch.

Halleys Comet comes around once in a long, long while. So do true friends.

Even the good delight of friends is at first a reflection in you. Stay with them until it becomes a realization.

We don't stay long in each other's lives--that's the crux of our humanness. You have to be the friend people need while they are there with you, because it's the only chance you'll get. Clara Kip

Sometimes you find out that what you thought was friendship is really love.

Freedom? It was in trust. In friendship. In flight.

One of my Flaws is having an empathetic heart.I was once scammed by a pastor I truly saw as a friend and brother.A broken heart isnt always about romance-friendship can break you too.But my heartbreak only lasts 24 hoursthen I move on.

Edgar backs off with his cases, heading for the front steps while the horse begins its ponderous turn out of the car park; and when he finds that Edgar is still standing there to wave him off, he knows they've passed beyond the territory of strangers, into something more like friendship.

I had met Lena at the birthday picnic of a woman named Sharon. She and her husband, Paul, organised a monthly gathering of expatriates, which I went to mostly without Manu, because he objected to the formal pursuit of friendship.

Do you know about friends? Its when you keep talking to another person for a good while but neither of you sets the other one on fire.

There is no true friendship unless You weld it between souls that cling together by the charity poured forth in their hearts by the Holy Spirit.

Real friends knew where to draw the line between laughing with you instead of at you.

One thing Ive learned is that everybody, even the people you like best in the world, have faults, or do things that bug you. If you want to remain friends with those people, then you choose to overlook their faults.

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of night.

True friends are those rare souls who see the real you, stay when the world walks away, and remind you of your strength when you forget it yourself.

It is as if friendship requires that we go through things together - schooldays, gap years, college, choosing careers, chasing girls, getting married, having children. A shared purpose in later life does not suffice.

Ella: I bought three diamondsmy best friends sparkle better than any date! Yvonne Padmos, Tv serie Ella in Marbella

Some people are only your friend when they have something to gain.

True friends remind me of Halleys Comet they all come around once in a long, long while.

As your friend, allow me to make a prediction. Sooner or later, you're gonna change. Actually, you already are. All that's left is for you to take that first step.

As your friend, allow me to make a prediction. Sooner or later, you're gonna change. Actually, you already are. All that's left for you is to take that first step.

The secret to lasting friendship is laughter.

Friends who say "I love you" every tie you part ways are important. Those are the ones you need in your life.

If your partner becomes your best friend, then you have one of the greatest priceless gifts of life.

Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget.

There arent many sonnets for friendship. Not enough songs for the kind of love not born of blood or body but of time and care. They are the ones we choose to laugh and cry and live with. When lovers come and go, friends are the ones who remain. We are each others constants.

She must follow her own path. And we must accept that in her journey, we might not be the heroes meant to save her, merely the guides meant to walk alongside her. To love her through it. That is the true price of friendship.

True friendship isnt measured by how often you speak, but by how deeply youre understood each other in silence.

They hadnt needed permission from one another to become friends; they simply were

Love grows through friendship.

A friend is someone who sees you. And I see you. I get why you struggle. I do, too. If you didnt, youd be a complete sociopath. But in the end, the world needs bad men to keep other bad men from the door.

A good friend is one that transforms you into a better version of yourself; one that you didnt know existed until you met them. Theyd spice you up with sea salt and caramel if you were a plain vanilla ice cream and sweeten you up with honey if you were a boring chilli dip.

Friendship, it turns out, is not something to do if I have extra energy; it's the thing that gives me the energy, creativity, happiness to actually enjoy life.

We all love "good" friends. But the second you even mention or ask for help, you are suddenly in the ghost town. Apparently, it is easier to show an attempt. Apparently, it is easier to pretend that you tried - to not feel guilty of being a shit friend.

Evaluate the quality of your friendships and ask yourself whether or not they are profitable. Avoid unprofitable friendships if you want immense prosperity.

that maybe I never knew what friendship was until it was taken from me.

Friends are gifts from God sent to help us navigate the messes of this world with laughter and love.

But there is another type of breakup. The kind that's not romantic. The kind that happens between friends. There are no movies made about that. Perhaps because the pain is too deep, too profound to even encapsulate.

But I mourned just as much when I lost my best friend. Am I allowed that? It's still the same pain of losing someone you loved with all your heart. Isn't is?

In lifes precarious dance across divided cliffs, where fragile ties bind us to both friend and foe, trust not every outstretched handfor only through the rare, humble struggle of authentic hearts can we bridge our divides and find the freedom to reflect a shared, enduring truth

I havent been around very long, but if theres one thing Ive learned already, its that even the friends who can take care of themselves need help sometimes.

That is- your friend? Philtatos. Most beloved.

Mark, not usually one for hugs, put his arms around me without a word. No 'I told you so,' no jokesjust a friend letting me cry. 'Jim,' he said softly, 'it's okay. Even if you didn't say it... she knows, man. She knows.' And he just stood there, patting my back, until I cried myself out.

You're gone and I miss you. You were a good friend even when you weren't and I hope the same could be said of me to you. We should have forgiven each other for things we said, for the way we both were.

Youre gonna regret messing with my friends!

Most gracious host,' said Frodo, 'it was said to me by Elrond Halfelven that I should find friendship upon the way, secret and unlooked for. Certainly I looked for no such friendship as you have shown. To have found it turns evil to great good.

You dont like the word friendship. What else is there? I had no idea. I did a quick search on my archives and pulled out the first result. Mutual administrative assistance?

Son, Anything that fails to cultivate you will ultimately undermine you, regardless of whether it is a friendship, partnership, or romantic relationship.

Son, Authentic friends are exceptional. In them, you will find true love and someone worth your trust.

Son, Avoid friendships that corrupt you, they can make your big dreams invisible.

Son, Avoid friendships that take your focus away from making a significant impact.

Son, Friendships can make or break you, so invest in friends who build you up.

Son, Friendships can motivate or dissuade you. Surround yourself with friends who uplift you.

Son, Friendships can shape your personality and destiny. That is why you must choose your company wisely.

Son, Genuine friendships are a boat that carries honesty and tranquility from one end to the other. Without these basics, there is no friendship. Any friendship that lacks these traits is not real.

Son, Genuine friendships are like boats that carry honesty and tranquility from one end to the other. Without these basics, there is no friendship, and any friendship that lacks these traits is not real.

Son, If your friendship has the potential to corrupt or control you, rethink it.

Son, In your friendships, be positive and proactive. Be protective of friends who lift you when you fall into a pit.

Son, Some friendships will challenge you to be the best you can be, choose such friendships.

Son, Some friendships will guide you toward understanding the spirit of love and peace, those are the kind of friendships you need.

Son, You deserve to be valued. Do not cling, be free. Detach from friendships that make you feel as if you are nothing.

Son, You do not have to give up on a good friend because of new friendships. Good friends are not found in the market.

Son, Genuine friendships are like boats that carry honesty and tranquillity from one end to the other. Without these basics, there is no friendship, and any friendship that lacks these traits is not real.

Son, Some friendships will guide you toward understanding the spirit of love and peace. Those are the kinds of friendships you need.

Maybe love wasnt always loud and obvious. Maybe sometimes it crept up quietly, disguised as laughter and late-night talks and a friend who never let go.

I can be a better boyfriend than him.

This wasnt about religion, or who subscribed to which worldview, or who did or didnt have faith. It was about friendship.

I live my faith, not by fear, he replied stoically. What value does life hold unless youre helping others and willing to risk your life for a friend.

To yield readilyeasilyto the persuasion of a friend is no merit with you." "To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.

A true friend is like a mirror, reflecting your beliefs with sincerity, and a shadowloyal, ever-present, and unwavering, standing by you through every joy and hardship, no matter how dark the path.

From where I'm sitting you are someone who needs friends to be happy. People are your fuel.

a friendship so small it can fit into tiny boxes you place inside other tiny boxes until the box just disappears.

Son, A bad friend's presence can transform your life into a mess, but a remarkable friend can help transform your blessings into a sea of abundance. Choose your company with utmost care.

You must try your best to make friends, for those who are small cannot easily stand alone.

There is no such good or bad friends, unless you label them or they label you

How many true friends can you say you truly have? Success can be measured by this number alone.

The highest purpose of dating is friendship.

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A person I need to manage cannot be my friend. At best he or she can only be an acquaintance. Even such a title is an honor to such. Only my friends are allowed into my holy of holies. My place of shalom.

Afraid of disclosures, You tend to move away from your real friends, Seeking company of those eyes That cant penetrate. Welcome to the world of sham! Youve lost the last one who cared!

Individuals can hold differing beliefs and still be friends. They can keep opposing opinions and still love each other dearly. Believe me, my family and I do not share all the same views or beliefs, yet I love them more than life.

Friendship isn't defined by how much time you spend with someone. Reach out to people when things aren't going well and see who's there for you. Those people are your friends.

There is no greater remedy for the heart, nor sweeter comedy for the soul, than the company of an old friend.

It was a busy day, but even so, she caught these moments in between: a husband wiping cream off his wifes chin; a mother splitting a muffin with her daughter; friends laughing so hard their eyes filled with tears; an old man reading quietly and contentedly on his own.

Ive seen you do way more embarrassing stuff. I snort. Like what? We met because you fell on your face! Sorry, buddy. Our whole friendship is founded on you being embarrassing. Great. Thanks. I feel a lot better now.

It's hard to get close to people and have fulfilling friendships if you always suspect people are hiding things from you.

You have some queer friends, Dorthy,' she said. 'The queerness doesn't matter, so long that they're friends,' was the answer.

Thats it, though? You had one friend ever, you married her, then you respected her too much to fuck her, so she left you?

.what could be more sacred than friendship and loyalty?.

May you all find friendship and love in all of life's inspiring places

Excellent friend! how sincerely you did love me, and endeavour to elevate my mind until it was on a level with your own. A selfish pursuit had cramped and narrowed me, until your gentleness and affection warmed and opened my senses

When you will be failure in life, your relative friends will blame on you. If you became successful they want you to give them credit for your success.

(He would never find it again, that kind of friendship. But once is enough. You need it only onceso that you may know what your human heart is capable of.)

Some of you are profoundly remarkable until you get around those friends you should have outgrown by now. The version of you that shows up then? Hard to like.

Our friendship was forged in the dark, watching movies with the curtains drawn or hiding out in our place beneath the tree. With all these spotlights on him, will he still be able to see me?

- Do you know what friendship is? - Its being brother and sister, two souls which touch without mingling, like two fingers of a hand. - And what about love? - Its being two and yet being only one. A man and a woman fused into an angel.

Your real friend will identify with you in all circumstances.

Friendship is having someone who supports and helps you no matter what.

You need to make friends and know your real friends - not many people will truly care about you in life.

Only the friends you choose and those who choose you as their friend will often care about you.

True friends stay together.

Love helps you to be a friend to the friendly and unfriendly, and remain a friend to the lovable and unlovable.

Friendship is love.

Great friends love others as much as they want others to love them.

You can love people without making them your friends, but you cannot make someone your friend whom you don't love.

Friends are puzzle pieces. They go missing and once they're gone, I feel incomplete and lonely.

A friendship never sinks. If it does, sail on. Leave behind the tidal waves. Always be on the lookout for the upcoming icebergs ready to hit.

Friends are there to solve your problem, but problem is they are at same intellectual level as you are.

She didn't know people could stop loving you. She'd thought friendship was permanent, like matter.

I would rather shovel manure with friends than serve chocolate with enemies.

There is no point in being a friend to everyone and an enemy to yourself. From this, it can be concluded that the bush will always grow on poorly pruned land.

Life's never easy, my friend, and will get harder when you get older.' Karina looked away as she continued. 'Sometimes sacrifices have to be made for those you care for most.

When people meet during their travels, the friendships they form are like sparks in the wildernessunexpected and brief, yet they have the power to ignite a lasting warmth in their lives.

Its funny, across a lifetime, the people you pick up. Its often the most unexpected ones who stick around. There are friendships, forged in fire, which end up disappearing like smoke, and other casual, nodding friendships, which will stay with you for the rest of your life.

Aloneness takes you to a fellowship with God, an intimacy deeper than friendship.

A book is a friend that never asks you to leave.

She had debated asking him what the words meant, but that would involve talking. And talking meant building some sort of . . . relationship. She'd had enough of friends. Enough of them dying, too.

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends, but it'll always get you the right ones.

Maybe you feel as if there were nothing better in the world than driving in a car, listening to music with friends, looking for an all-night donut shop. Nobody says a thing, and it is perfect.

Something knots a friendship, or raises the emotional content to a new plane. Some final door must open between two people if they are to become true friends; a total acceptance each of the other has to take place.

Friendships are like wooden bridges, sometimes they burn and turn to ash, but with enough time forgiveness and commitment, they can always be rebuilt with stone.

Friends are gifts from God, and sometimes gifts dont come in multiples. Dont envy those surrounded by many friends; one true friend is more valuable than a thousand acquaintances.

For readers who enjoyed Firefly Lane and novels with celebrity fights. Social media spats, friendship bust ups.

Never engage with people on a negative path, as they may lead you toward ruin. Instead, guide them toward positivity, even if it risks your friendship.

In a new friendship it can be so important to know what someone else has experienced before you assume that your experience is monolithic

I watched her go and wished I knew how to talk to her for I felt in my heart we could have been true friends, and I had never had a friend.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

I don't like knowing people in the context of things. Oh, that's the person I work out with. That's the person I'm in a book club with. Because once the context ends, so does the friendship. I yearn for them to know me in that way, too.

It's so easy to become obsessed with how other people are being hurtful that sometimes we don't think about how we can be better to our friends as well.

Music to me is like a friend that comes in just when you need it.

The things that money can't buy that makes us special: love, friendship, creativity, support, kindness and understanding.

The things that money can't buy that make us special: creativity, friendship, love, blessing, kindness, respect, understanding, support.

Is it OK to call them your friends? You've completed quests together, you've helped each other, so yes, you decide, friends. They're all you've got now. It's a lot better than having nobody at all.

Not everyone has friendship down pat at age thirteen. Like most things, its a learning process.

Friendship is finding the people who were missing and the people that you needed, or maybe sometimes you didnt know that you needed them. And then they come along and they fill that inexplicable void.

their friendship was forged in the long hours on the boat in which neither spoke an unnecessary word.

Are you saying even your friends spread rumors about you and your wife? Mainly my friends. That's what they think friendship means: the freedom to turn you into a topic of conversation

Lila admits she does not do the best job of keeping in touch with her friends when they are no longer right in front of her face.

Let's go for it," said Rachel. "I can do anything when my best friend's along for the ride!

Im not built for long-term romance. But you are my long-term unromance, my dearest friend, my family.

A conviction of superiority is not, after all, a good beginning for friendship.

Richest people are those with the most friends.

We'd made a pact eight years ago to pass away in our sleep together, holding hands, in the retirement home we'd spent a decade wreaking awesome havoc on. Like the chaotic best friend version of The Notebook.

The clouds are pressed together as if they cant bear to be apart, said Kirsty Tate, her nose pressed up against the sitting-room window. Just like us, said her best friend, Rachel Walker.

We'll be fine," said Rachel, squeezing her hand. "After all, we'll be together and we're best friends. We can do anything!

To leave a friend is like a death and calls for grieving.

Friends don't want to see you mess up a good thing. That's a real friend, not a red flag. Read that again. Heavy on the subliminal.

The basis of friendship is sharing.

You cannot be a great friend if you don't know how to give.

Great friends are great givers.

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Your friendships become as rich and enduring as your application of the law of reciprocity.

Have the humility to receive from your friends no matter how little they contribute to your life.

Successful friendships are established on both giving and receiving. Develop a heart to give not only to receive.

Friendships dwell on the law of reciprocity.

If we feel like someone else is pulling our energy down instead of lifting us up, this usually means we need to allow more spacespace in which that new just-right friend will soon appear.

He was a friend to friendship itself and never expected people to be better than they were.

I am known for my loyalty and friendship. Do not fear disgrace; come to me fearlessly and recklessly.

Friends are like Wi-Fi signalssometimes they disappear, but you know theyre always around.

Friendship: When you can talk nonsense and have that nonsense respected.

Friendship is being there to notice someone's about to fall, to try to keep them from falling, to catch them when they fall or to cushion the blow when they do, to feel what they're feeling, and to understand why they feel that way.

Friendship grows but love can die. Friendship is lasting, solid, a commitment without being a burden. It is the greatest joy to see a friendship blossoming into maturity.

I know you are my best friend. I know I hurt you. I know you get hurt. I know that I don't mean it. I know that you say in your heart, why is she getting rude. I just want you to know that I am sorry and I don't mean it. AND WHETHER YOU ACCEPT IT OR NOT YOU ARE STILL MY BEST FRIEND.

Cheer on your friends!

Self-friendship is a friendship between your spirit, soul and body.

A one-sided friendship is not a real friendship.

A true friendship requires two; not one.

The Law of Reciprocity helps us to appreciate our friendships, return kindness that have been done to us, recognize the impacts of our friends on us and reward them as required, as well as to give appropriate responses to our friends anytime we receive any acts of benevolence from them.

The simple act of return on kindness is what keeps friendships alive.

If friendship is therefore a relationship, then it means it doesn't rely on only one person to make it work; both parties of the relationship have to commit themselves to it in order to have a successful lifelong friendship relationship.

The concept of friendship carries with it the ability to relate. In friendship, you have to relate with me and I also have to relate with you. It's a mutual relationship.

You cannot be in friendship and sit at one corner always expecting people to come to you. You also have to move and go to them. That's friendship. It's a relationship.

You need to sow seeds of kindness, love, care, time, compassion, forgiveness, and selflessness into friendships before you can really enjoy them.

If one friend doesn't appreciate your giving, don't stop giving. It may be the greatest blessing someone else is praying to have. Imagine if you stop giving, and you stop on the right person who will open the greatest door to your future?

If you are a friend who always gives and doesn't receive, it doesn't mean you should kill your character of giving. No! Giving is a nature; it should be something you are, not something others force you to be.

Always maintain a separate life that includes hobbies, healthy friendships, some adventures, and self-care while in a relationship. This will make your love connection much more fulfilling.

They were his friends, his first friends, and he understood that friendship was a series of exchanges, of affections, of time, sometimes of money, always of information.

Those who cannot conceive Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend. (The Four Loves)

Maybe you dont have shit besides a skateboard and a Supertramp record, but if you have one true friend you have everything. . .

A true friend is someone who stands by your side, even when the world turns its back on you.

Whoever forgives foster friendship.

Without forgivenness, there is no friendship.

If you get there before me, leave the door open. If I get there before you, I will be the doorman. Thats friendship.

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.

Josh stepped back like I had pulled the pin from a hand grenade. Emotionally, hadn't I? Our friendship was shrapnel-flecked.

As far as Id seen, the basis of friendship for guys past the age of bedwetting is trash talk.

The etymology of the word friend comes from the Proto-Germanic word frijand, which means to love. Love and friendship: friendship and love. They come from the same place.

The only thing you get from insisting on winning an argument is a temporarily inflated sense of self worth and permanently alienated friends.

A true friend is someone who does not abandon you in bad times and does not envy you in good ones.

Nobody can be a better friend for you than yourself

You don't have to be similar to be true friends. You don't have to think like each other, you just have to think for each other.

A leader sees greatness in other people. You cant be much of a leader if all you see is yourself. Only equals make friends. A man or woman who sees other people as whole and prepared and accords them respect and the same rights has arranged his or her own allies.

When you share something good with a friend, you somehow get more then if you kept it to yourself.

THIS is your life! Right now! Are you living an honest life or trying to be what someone else thinks you should be? Choose your friends carefully, wisely and deliberately. Honor them with your time and love while you can.

Friendship starts out free and becomes priceless with time.

Personal attention is a continuing necessity in any friendship.

Acute jealousy renders you incapable of friendship with anyone who is not worse off than you are.

Resist your friends irrational opinions. But remind yourself to check in on them regularly in case reason has accidentally influenced them in the meantime.

She received a letter from her father written on small sheets of lined paper. (...) There are no real friends, he warned.

Instead of having a valued friend, having a friend with values is what matters

True friends are like a good bra; they give you enough room when you need it, and they lift you up when life drags you down.

You could be anywhere, and you're choosing to be here. All relationships are a choice. You have to choose to be someone's friend. Not once, but over and over and over again. And you're doing it, right now.

I was a really bad friend. I didn't understand before. I thought I was just, you know, making choices for me. I didn't realize that I was making choices for you.

Time is and it isnt It can be your greatest enemy or your greatest friend. But it all depends on you.

There are Good Ships, there Wood Ships, there are Ships that sail the sea. The best Ships are Friendships, and may they always be!

Aela hesitated, terrified for her friend. This was treason. "Mason -" "Go, damn it. I've lost my king. I won't lose my friend too.

Thats the truth. Id never hurt Nova. Her presence in my life means too much to me. Shes my friend and adding sex into the mix could be dangerous to our relationship. I understand that on a logical level even though my libido rages against it.

If something isnt right, just telling your friend can make it seem better, even though they might not know how to fix it.

A friend is someone who helps you up when you're down, and if they can't, they lay down beside you and listen.

That in a loving place, I am able to hear a friend disagree with me and know that they still care for me. That I can receive their advice and know that I don't have to follow it. That there is enough trust between us. I don't want to be validated. I want to be loved.

I look on my friendship with her as a treasure and a privilege. I shan't ever fall in love with her, padlock, but I am absolutely devoted to her and if she died I should mind quite, quite dreadfully. Or went mad again.

Friendships can make you or break you!

Life was crowded with many small worries that could replace a friendship with indifference.

Dont be in a hurry to make friends with strangers, as they may be your enemies.

In the shelter of friendship, children can move at their own developmental pace.

We can unwittingly undermine the friendship by imposing our adult standard of justice instead of the childs standard of forgive-and-forget.

Youre always welcome in Fairyland, girls, Queen Titania replied with a sweet smile. You are our dearest friends!

A friend of mine once said: 'Never seek help, but seek the helper.

You and I, friend Less-el-lee, said that same farmer, clapping the Squire on the shoulder. We shall come to see if I have built you a house and an enclosure worthy of this paragon among pigs! Come! Come! And if you do not like it, then I shall slay myself in grief!

Friendship is staying close enough to put a hand on their shoulder while giving them enough room to feel the weight.

A friend is not an enabler; love doesnt always look like agreement.

The memories of his friends reminded him of something important. It is through the help of others that we are able to progress.

When two people across from each other fall silent, that silence sometimes says more than if the two were talking. I sometimes think it would be nice to have a friend I could be silent with.

Your friends are there for you to learn from their pain and grow.

In middle school, words arent just words. They can be weapons. They can be gifts. The right words can win you friends or make you enemies. They can come back to haunt you. Sometimes they can change things forever.

Mom hadnt been the kind of person who was the best at anything, like Ella and her dad were. Mom was mostly just okay at a lot of things. Maybe that was why she left. Maybe being around someone like Dad all the time was too hard. Shed sure had a lot more friends than he did, though.

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Vanyusha regarded Olenin as no more than his master. Olenin regarded Vanyusha as no more than his servant. They would have been greatly surprised had anyone told them they were friends. And yet they were friends, without either of them knowing it.

How many friends does a person really need? Two? Three? You don't need a lot of friends, but you should have one that'll always be important to you.

People tell each other stories in order to become friends. But what happens when one of those friends is gone? I dont know, but maybe those stories help us reach catharsis.

You can tell people your name, but then, behind your back, they just call you what they see you as: youre a boss, an employee, a husband, lover, friend most people just call me asshole.

Kirsty didnt know why Rachel wanted her to drop the end of the yarn ball, but she trusted her best friend

She hovered beside Kirsty and dropped a kiss on her cheek. Fluffy nuzzled against her human friend, too. Then they did the same to Rachel. Thank you both for helping me find Fluffy, Elodie said. Youre wonderful.

Who was I to wreck her momentum? Let her mother worry. Let her coach worry. My role as a friend was to support her. Nia knew what she was doing. It was up to me to trust her.

My friends are not close to me by blood, but they're close to me by heart. Isn't that how we've truly loved people?

Lesson one, don't shit on your friends when you have a bad day.' 'Right.' 'Lesson two. Your true friends won't mind when you do, so long as you own up to it and apologise. Usually in the form of buying them a beer.' Another laugh, softer this time. 'I'll buy you a beer, then.

I just want the 3 of you to stay friends. And I hope you stay in touch. Never forget what you mean to each other and the effect that youve had on each others lives. So friendship can really never be over or underestimated.

Being friends is not just a chapter in life; it is the beautifully written story that unfolds with every shared moment and heartfelt conversation.

Friendship: Where laughter echoes, trust speaks, and the adventure of life becomes a shared treasure...!!

He turned and smiled resolvedly at her. He knew no one else would ever understand that for Arvellen, sex only had to do with friendship and of pleasing one another, and nothing at all to do with what she considered to be the silly confines of love or marriage.

We only know the things we tame, said the fox. Men no longer have the time to know anything. They buy ready-made things from merchants. But as there are no merchants of friends, men no longer have friends. If you want a friend, tame me!

Consider soulmates to also be in the form of friends and animals, the wind, the tides, the plants, pieces of art, and the moon. Great love lives everywhere.

Sounds of the river and wind, the tickling of the butterflies, the ice cold water and the company of some of my closest friends, what else would one want in life, whether fictional or not? Ah, to be as light, beautiful and carefree as this elegant winged creature!

There are these two evil twins that I know of: one is pride, and the other is arrogance. Whoever is a friend to them destroys himself.

Is this weird? Is it more or less weird than me manhandling your underwear? he asked. We cant use you manhandling my underwear as a gauge for our entire friendship. His pillowy lips quirked. Is it more or less weird than you getting almost naked half a foot away without so much as a warning?

Friendship is the art of turning shared moments into timeless treasures.

Even if I don't spend the rest of my days as your spouse, I would want to spend the rest of my days as your friend.

A candid conversation mends friendship, and a preconceived notion ends it.

For the first time in Jess's life he got up every morning with something to look forward to. Leslie was more than his friend. She was his other, more exciting self -- his way to Terabithia and all the worlds beyond.

I do not believe you have ever given your friends a moment's anxiety - except for worrying that this wicked world would quickly take advantage of someone so honest.

With the help of so many, he walked the path on his own and found that you could get through darkness. Though sometimes a friendly light was required to show the way.

How do you know which friends are real?' I ask. 'They love you; they tell you the truth,' he whispers in my ear.

He could not se a possible, general good above Selver's imperative need. You can't save a people by selling your friend.

Transitions were hard. Navigating this would be tough. But at least I had a home to come back to, and friends who still wanted me. This was what I'd been fighting for all along. And maybe . . . maybe there was a place for me here. Or at least room to cut out a place where I could fit.

Whats a best friend for, if not to hold you when your world falls apart?

It took all four of us to make our friendship work. We were a square, and if one side collapsed, all sides collapsed.

- I have two whole friends - Why'd you make that sound like two is a lot? - Two is more than enough! I just have to stay friends with them forever

When it comes to friendships, QUALITY is much more important than QUANTITY.

So you will take me to die with you? he said. He had seen little that made him believe they had any sort of friendship, but this seemed little thanks for it.

Magic never forgets the taste of your friendship.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Like all boys, they never walked anywhere, but named a goal and lit for it, scissors and elbows. Nobody won. Nobody wanted to win. It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow.

The best of friends are the ones who fought and mend up their broken wounds.

Don't forget that someday you might need someone to be there. So, be a good friend now. The friends you have today could be the ones helping you out tomorrow.

People who leave old friends for new friends never make strong friendships.

She recalled all the seesaws she had ridden: friendship and love, jealousy and trust, confusion and sense, happiness and sadness, disappointment and contentment, hope and despair, pain and comfort, temptation and self-control.

If you support your friend even in the wrong things, then you don't know the meaning of friendship.

Friendship means little when its convenient.

Jaana, you are an inspiring and charming friend whom I was destined to meet.

You and I were destined to meet and become friends for life, Annu.

Subbu, we had to meet. You are my friend and brother from another mother.

Im here for you, kid. Thats what friends are for.

Today I feel as if we are sisters in arms, and I would be honored if you would do for me what you have done for your friends.

Friendships are fragile and must be protected, because once broken, they cant always be fixed.

By the time they reached West Street, they were soaked through and laughing, and Beth felt nostalgia for the friendship that, for awhile, had always felt like this.

You will have to excuse me, I am not even sure if I could tell you what a friend looks like, or what they do. But I think you might be my one friend, if that should suit you.

Among friends one remains the same age and in the same place where the friendship began.

One cannot change the type of friend one has been in the past only in the present and the future.

Many people take mutual dependence as friendship

Your best friend making you smile in your tough times is the most beautiful friendship experience.

I hate my friends. And when I hate my friends I've failed myself, failed to share my compassion. I shine a light on them of my own making: septic, ugly, the wrong yellow.

Polo has all the qualities that a nearly middle-aged man would need. Lots of adrenalin, dangerous and, contrary to my expectations, bright and filled with shenanigans and friendships.

Friends who had anarchy in their souls were reckless only by calculation and separated from convention by their own desire.

A home is a safe place but a home cannot be a cage. A friend is a safe place but friends are not chains.

Friendship cannot be pressured, bought or forced. It is a slow process, delicategradually forged.

What monster would turn up his snout at the thought-through help of all the friends he had?

Above all, surround yourself with friends who make you laugh, especially if you live with them. When they no longer make you laugh, throw them out and recycle them.

We didn't hit it off like many others in similar situations...Instead, he and I sort of gravitated around each other, either friends nor foes, like the moons of a planet we had no interest in observing but whose orbit we were forced to nonetheless reside within.

We didn't hit it off like many others in similar situations....Instead, he and I sort of gravitated around each other, either friends nor foes, like the moons of a planet we had no interest in observing but whose orbit we were forced to nonetheless reside within.

Never forget that the most important friendship is the one you have with yourself. A good friend is kind, patient, respectful, and if the voice in your head is not those things then you need to ignore it

There is no sympathy quite so beautiful as friends laughing.

Friendship is the love that is ignored; people don't theorise about friendship, write poetry about it. It just goes quietly along, sustaining. Passion spends itself--oh my goodness, does passion spend itself--but friendship is always there. Like a good marriage, it survives attack.

True friends brought peace in my life, but the selfish ones made it a disaster for a while.

Thief, caring friend, purloiner of treatswhats the difference? According to my vocabulary knowledgewhich, apparently, is far superior to yourstheres quite a bit of difference.

Watching a best friend become a parent is a magical thing. It can open up a part of their personality that you've never seen before and it can also open a new chapter of your friendship.

A good friendship is like an old wine. Both become better as time passes by." -from "BrokenUnbroken" by Matea Andrašek

Derrida remarked that friendship's driver isn't the pursuit of someone who is just like you. A friend, he wrote, would "choose knowing rather than being known." I had always thought it was the other way around.

They knew that even though their adventures could be challenging, having courage, kindness, and good friends would help them overcome anything!

Friends are not to be picked up on the roadside every day, nor are they to be thrown away lightly.

I aimed to go fast, I fared on my own path. I aimed to go far, Found friends to share and laugh.

The fruit of friendship is forgiveness.

Without forgiveness, there is no enduring friendship.

Im not asking you to save the world My eyes flooded with tears. Im asking you to save your friend!

Friends get mad at each other sometimes. Then they get over it and forgive each other and go back to being friends again.

I think she is one of the most mentally exciting people I know. She hates the wishy-washiness of Bloomsbury young men. We have made friends by leaps and bounds, in these two days. I love her, but couldn't fall 'in love' with her, so don't be nervous!

I want something more with you, Tessa, because we're good together. We always have been. The sex is only a small component of what makes us fit so well together. I would think that our twenty plus years of friendship should be evidence enough of that.

And he said... ...if a smile does not reach the eyes, who are we to call it friendship?

And he said... ...who will call you friend when your pockets are empty?

True friendship is being support of one another through all the changing scenes of life.

True friendship is being supportive of one another through all the changing scenes of life.

Everyone had different treasures. To some, it could be nice clothes or shiny jewelry, or all the yellow things. But to others, there we're more precious things, like freedom, like friendship, like love.

She was a great cultivator of friends, a person who brought others together. Once you were in her life, she never let you drift out of it completely. (Hidden Beneath)

If you want good friends, be one.

My jaw clamped shut in response, but the resolve in me only grew stronger: the resolve I'd first found months ago when I realized I had one friend in this big, angry world, and I would protect that redhead at all costs.

when youre far away from home and scared shitless you need all the friends you can get and you need them right away.

My only known friendship is winning the enmity.

Jonathan interceded, encouraged, and laid down his rights of being the next King of Israel for his friend David. Be like Jonathan. An Extraordinary and Faithful Friend.

Having a checklist for what classifies as friendship leads only to a friendless life.

Don't go at it alone, my friend. Look for allies who'll lend a hand, easing the burden with a peaceful flow instead of pushing you into that grind-hustle cycle.

True friendship has nothing to do with knowing everything about a person, like their favorite ice cream flavor, or sideshow game, or what subjects theyre good at. Its about being there. Knowing that another person has your back, not only when things are good but more importantly when theyre bad.

Friendship should be fair. It becomes charity if youre always the giver and the other person the receiver and without reciprocation.

It is good to lend to a friend, but it should not cause a friend to become an enemy...

Friends can be the best place for support. They can also be insightful and delightful to you.

Friends can be the family you never had.

Not all friends are worthy of your immediate attention. Remember that bad friends are still in the category of 'friends'.

Some friends may want to show their dominance over you. Thread lightly.

Friendship is not supposed to hurt.

If they don't consider your needs, they arent your real friends.

We make time for our friends. But in doing so, plan the time right so that you don't neglect your own needs.

You don't need many friends to feel appreciated. One good one is enough. At most times, lean on yourself. Youre your first best friend.

A friend is like a guardian angel who lifts you up when your wings forget how to fly and carries you through lifes challenges with unwavering support.

Joy didn't settle for friendship with Malcolm. She welcomed in, making a choice, and stood by it and him for ten years.

Many people don't marry and many don't have children. Some people might not know their mother or father, and a lot of people don't have siblings. But any person who has lived for any length of time has had a friend.

Some friendships can endure anything.

You can pour drinks on me... but good reason or not, nobody hurts a friend of mine!

Nada will marry when she's ready, Aunty. She has excellent judgment and has never rushed anything in her life. She has her engineering job, she has her family and friends, and for now, that's enough. When the time is right, she will find her match.

When passion and friendship sprint in one race, passionate friendship transmutes to a mirage in the diary of love and kiss.

Ever feel like you were fated to be friends with someone? An alchemy in your meeting, instant fondness - part chemical, part kismet. This is how I've felt about every friend I've fallen in love with - none so much as you.

If you don't make an enemy of envy, it will become your only friend

Have friends.

Classify your friends into groups. Classify them per their roles in your life. It will save you from investing in the wrong people.

True friendship withstands time, distance, and silence.

It happens so fast, Laina, you dont even realize its happening. One day, your friends are eating breakfast with you in the canteen, and when its time for dinner, theyre wearing an Imperial uniform.

When youre with good friends being yourself should be good enough.

When friendship is settled, you must trust; before friendship is formed, you must pass judgement.

I was friendless not because I didnt understand people but because I understood them too well. Most of them werent worth the effort.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one

True friendship shares your joy and your troubles.

And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his heart; For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unclaimed.

let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught.

For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill? Seek him always with hours to live. For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness.

Forgiveness is the fruit of true friendship.

When it feels like you're losing friends, remember that successful individuals have only a few trusted companions. They often encounter hostility. That's why a Lamborghini has two seats while a bus has thirty. Train your mind to stay positive.

There is no true fellowship without friendship.

Friends are a comfort in misfortune but one should not make them unhappy by seeking their sympathy...

Where Cleo whispered, as if it were a secret or a prayer, I've never had friends like this, and Sabrina and I nodded solemnly, the three of us holding hands until we drifted off.

That night three friends lie in their beds trying to ignore the instructive moon. Its gravity unravels heavy thoughts from the spindle of the soul. Thoughts of friendship thoughts of things that were said and that shouldnt have been.

Some of the most unexpected encounters turn into enduring friendships for they bring spontaneous outbursts of joy..That which was earthly turns out to be heavenly for there came the beautiful coincidence of two hearts, meeting each other with a divine earnestness.

I am so filled with joy to see Benediction back to his old self; I throw my arms around him as well. His arm encircles my waist, and he pulls both Brian and me close to him. It feels good to hold him, for a good friend is more vital than blood.

You are immensely gifted my friend You can find it within you Like I found something within me A few years ago...

No one stays friends forever, Mira. Eventually those closest to us become our enemies in some way, even if its through well-intentioned love or apathy, or if we live long enough to become their villains.

Betrayal is the venomous serpent that slithers through the shadows of friendship, ready to strike when least expected. When loyalty turns to betrayal, it's a reminder that even the purest intentions can be tainted by deceit

He responded to each person he met as if he were already a friend.

With the help of the Gospel, which he began to listen to carefully, Francis began to break down the barriers to friendship inherent in his old worldview. Every person, he began to see, was at the most basic root the same.

Francis's expressions of friendship came from his heart in an uncalculated way. We see Francis befriending without judging, noticing and responding to people's needs, and expressing love simply because that person has been created by a God who says that every created thing is good.

One of the most toxic things a person can do to themselves is keep a known enemy closer to them than a known friend.

A true friendship provides not only an ally, but also an adversary when needed, and it's in the crucible of such betrayals that the strength of the bond is truly tested.

Most of our friendships live and die like trailers never knowing that they could be a movie. And the ones that do turn into a movie feel only like a trailer.

Without love and friendship, wed be a planet of lemmings, jumping off the cliff, no one quite knowing why.

One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship.

It is my happiest thought that with all the drawbacks of my temperament, I have yet to lose a real friend.

A great friendship is like a work of art, he thought. It took time and attention, and a spark of something that was impossible to describe. It was a happy, lucky accident, finding some kindred part of yourself in a total stranger.

When such friends move, and if you excuse the cliche, it feels like theyre taking a bit of my home with them. And when this happens a number of times over successive years, I feel like Im Voldemort with relational horcruxes scattered all over the place.

I dont get how an angel like you is friends with a demon like her.

Those memories are a part of me, but I am stronger than they are. My life is once again the sum of my choices, not someone else's crimes. And I choose to help my friends.

An authentic friend does not need to receive a daily, weekly, monthly, or even a yearly call.

Despite the more than thirty-year difference in our ages, I felt much more familiar with him than with friends my own age.

Life is short. Normalize checking on friends. Call at least 50 old friends you've not met or seen in about 5 years time. Smile with them before ending the call. But be aware that after checking on 50, at least 5 of them will call you back to ask for a loan. I advice, make money.

Your only true friends or best friends are those who are in similar conditions as you are or have gone through similar experiences you have.

Some friendships just have their seasons, and that's ok.

God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of the other.

Online friendship is not bound by time, and late night conversation prove that, as we connect across different time zones.

Kirsty felt unsure, too. But then she remembered that her best friend always made her feel stronger. She took Rachel's hand, and a little bit of confidence flickered inside her

Those friends last for years and years, but others arent meant to go the distance. It doesnt mean the short ones are any less meaningful.

La politesse, it is not necessary between friends.

Friendship fades for luck of faithfulness.

I was a bit of a loner, not because I wanted to be. I was just like that. Books became friends to me.

Leah had not realized until she sat down at the table with her book club friends that she'd been waiting all year for this moment. To reunite with women who understood and didn't judge her, and women whom she could call friends.

I rather wish you foes than hollow friends

The ironic thing about Stormy Daniels and President Trump is had he bragged about his friendship with the porn star, he may have been more popular!

I want a place with stories and genuine laughter, Dollars on crossbeams, bras strung from the rafter No focus group menu and sanitized spaces, Ill settle for friends in old seedy places! Nick Schlonski

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

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.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

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.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

My friends are my estate.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

Friendship and money: oil and water.

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

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.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

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.

You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.