Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
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.
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
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.
Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.
A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.
True friends are always together in spirit.
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!
The best mirror is an old friend.
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.
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.
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.
I don't want to hurt you or anybody so please forget about me. Just try. Find yourself a better friend.
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Everyone has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.
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.
A messy house is a must - it separates your true friends from other friends. Real friends are there to visit you not your house!
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.
Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.
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.
Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.
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.
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
The most valuable gift you can receive is an honest friend.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We need to remember what's important in life: friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work. Doesn't matter, but work is third.
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.
Nothing of real worth can ever be bought. Love, friendship, honour, valour, respect. All these things have to be earned.
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.
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!
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.
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rather than for our own.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.
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.
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.
Its never the value of water but thirst, its never the value of life but death and its never about the friendship but trust.
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.
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship
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.
Sometimes friends make mistakes. Grievous ones that cry out for us to stay and prove we are true friends.
Clary," he said. "You're Clary. You're my best friend.
A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably
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.
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.
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.
That's the problem with best friends. Sometimes they know you better than you know yourself.
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.
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.
A true friend is a light in the dark. Viven
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
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.
It's a little hard not to worry when my best friend keeps on dying.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Friendship is not a gift, but is the result of hard work.
A genuine enemy is more useful than a fake friend.
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--
Without a best friend to tell stories to, it almost didn't matter if they even happened.
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.
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.
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.
Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
Friends show their true colors in times of need; and not in times of happiness.
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!
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
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?
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.
I can take everything on her face at face value, and that's valuable in a friend.
Be grateful when you have friends who care for you, it's a blessing to see nice happy people around us.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There's no love as real as that of a girl and her best friend.
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!
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.
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 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?
And being best friends is always about the benefit of the doubt.
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 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.
Archie says books are our best lovers and our most provoking friends.
Friends make friends better. We accept the bad parts, celebrate the good parts, and we don't torture you for your mistakes
True friendship is as rare as twin lotuses on a single stalk.
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
Better a friend to all his weight in gold.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give values to survival.
The Good Man Better an enmity from one block than friendship held together by glue.
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.
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.
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...
Strangers will show you the way But a true friend will escort you, to your destination. 1st November, 2006
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.
A true friend will never do match-making if they dont like the person that makes their friend Happy
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.
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.
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.
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.
Shall we start over?' I say. Juliet shrugs. 'No. This has been an important part of our friendship development.
Cyber trolls' deceptive manipulative, political power play, duplicity and devious hypocrisy cannot equate to true friendship. Angelica Hopes, K.H. Trilogy
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.
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.
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.
What happens if your best friend is also the revolution?
True friends put their feet on your couch.
Halleys Comet comes around once in a long, long while. So do true friends.
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.
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
True friends remind me of Halleys Comet they all come around once in a long, long while.
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.
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.
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.
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
Son, Authentic friends are exceptional. In them, you will find true love and someone worth your trust.
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, 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.
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.
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.
You must try your best to make friends, for those who are small cannot easily stand alone.
How many true friends can you say you truly have? Success can be measured by this number alone.
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!
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.
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.
True friends stay together.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
He was a friend to friendship itself and never expected people to be better than they were.
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.
A one-sided friendship is not a real friendship.
A true friendship requires two; not one.
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?
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.
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.
Friendship starts out free and becomes priceless with time.
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.
Time is and it isnt It can be your greatest enemy or your greatest friend. But it all depends on you.
If something isnt right, just telling your friend can make it seem better, even though they might not know how to fix it.
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.
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!
The memories of his friends reminded him of something important. It is through the help of others that we are able to progress.
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.
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.
Kirsty didnt know why Rachel wanted her to drop the end of the yarn ball, but she trusted her best friend
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.
Friendship: Where laughter echoes, trust speaks, and the adventure of life becomes a shared treasure...!!
How do you know which friends are real?' I ask. 'They love you; they tell you the truth,' he whispers in my ear.
Whats a best friend for, if not to hold you when your world falls apart?
The best of friends are the ones who fought and mend up their broken wounds.
If you support your friend even in the wrong things, then you don't know the meaning of friendship.
Your best friend making you smile in your tough times is the most beautiful friendship experience.
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
True friends brought peace in my life, but the selfish ones made it a disaster for a while.
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
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.
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.
Friends can be the best place for support. They can also be insightful and delightful to you.
Not all friends are worthy of your immediate attention. Remember that bad friends are still in the category of 'friends'.
If they don't consider your needs, they arent your real friends.
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.
True friendship withstands time, distance, and silence.
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.
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.
Forgiveness is the fruit of true friendship.
There is no true fellowship without friendship.
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.
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.
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.
An authentic friend does not need to receive a daily, weekly, monthly, or even a yearly call.
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.
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.
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 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
Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
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.
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
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.
Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
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.
A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
Friends are the best to turn to when you're having a rough day.
Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?
Love, friendship, networking - these are all critical connections and the foundation of a healthy, happy life.
I define friendship as a bond that transcends all barriers. When you are ready to expect anything and everything from friends, good, bad or ugly... that's what I call true friendship.
When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
I think it's important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase.
Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.
Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.
People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.
Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.
Friendship is the most important thing of all.
One look at an email can rob you of 15 minutes of focus. One call on your cell phone, one tweet, one instant message can destroy your schedule, forcing you to move meetings, or blow off really important things, like love, and friendship.
We have a saying in the Marine Corps and that is 'no better friend, no worse enemy, than a U.S. Marine.' We always hope for the first, friendship, but are certainly more than ready for the second.
Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day.
For me, 'Lamb' started out as a further exploration of the phenomenon of faith and the responsibility of a messiah that I touched on in 'Coyote Blue' and 'Island of the Sequined Love Nun,' but it ended up being an exploration of the true meaning of sacrifice, loyalty, and friendship.
Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have.
The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can't accept that.
The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you're actually helping to make America stronger.
Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.
Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
I think friendship is more important than love, but that love that grows out of friendship is the very best of all.
The most important thing I gave the Beatles was my friendship. They trusted me: there was no fear in being photographed.
Faith is salted and peppered through everything at Christmas. And I love at least one night by the Christmas tree to sing and feel the quiet holiness of that time that's set apart to celebrate love, friendship, and God's gift of the Christ child.
I believe that friendship is life's most precious and amazing gift and an incredibly powerful force.