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Friendship Quotes
"A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat."
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"Surround yourself with those who won't compete but will revel in you your success and see your ascent as a reflection of their own possibilities."
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"In reading, friendship is restored immediately to its original purity. With books there is no forced sociability. If we pass the evening with those friends-books-it's because we really want to. When we leave them, we do so with regret and, when we have left them, there are none of those thoughts that spoil friendship: "What did they think of us?-"Did we make a mistake and say something tactless?-"Did they like us?-nor is there the anxiety of being forgotten because of displacement by someone else. All such agitating thoughts expire as we enter the pure and calm friendship of reading."
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"To be a best friend, the best word to live by is reciprocity."
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"Friendship lasts for four seasons and more."
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"Do you prefer Mitch? Or is Mitchell better?'.. .. Mitch, I say. Mitch is what my friends called me. 'Well, Mitch it is then,' Morrie says, as if closing a deal. 'And, Mitch?' Yes? 'I hope one day you will think of me as your friend."
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"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief."
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"A friend is he who can feel your heart's beating and dance with it when it is joyful, cry with it when it is torn, and inspire when it is in need."
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"There's a reason we'll all end up with just a handful of true friends in our life. These are the people that have taken the time to look at our heart, so despite any flaws they're forever in our lives."
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"He was my best friend and I needed him."
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"There is nothing I want but your presence.In friendship, time dissolves.Life is a cup. This connectionis pure wine. What else are cups for?I used to have twenty thousanddifferent desires."
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"Unfailing friends are essential, when 'presence' and 'absence' are wrangling in our daily living, and our presence is rampaged by murk and woe, while passion and lust for life are trampled. Reliable allies can shore us up and since we are our best ally, we first have got to make sure we get along well with ourselves. ("Being my best friend)."
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"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend."
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"I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow."
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"The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."
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"When you find the sort of people who will show up to give you a ride exactly when they've promised to do so, hold on to them for dear life."
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"What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear."
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"Friendship is not an obligation or duty. It is a sweet responsibility."
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"It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did."
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"A friend is a person whom you can love without judging and share your thoughts without fearing."
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"If you had a friend you refused to talk to, eventually you couldn't keep calling that person a friend anymore."
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"A friend who will never fail is the one who will stand by you regardless of the situation, time or location."
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"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."
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"When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know."
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"I prefer friends who walks with me in the shade - because friends, who constantly splendor in the glow of the flash of photographers, and sometimes accompany me - at every turn in times of success, this species of friends are suspect to me."
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"A friend is a friend who continues to love you and like you when you don't love him or like him any more."
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"And although I appreciated their kindness more than they would ever know, it's a fact that friends last longer the less you use them."
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"But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold."
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"We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude."
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"I can't believe I'm here,sitting with all my friends.There's No-one!And there's Nobody!My only two, and best true friends."
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"Friends understand the unsaid words, no matter if they are silent for years."
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"And above all, you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its paint and panelling, the question should never be: 'Do I like that kind of service?' but 'Are these doctrines true: Is holiness there? Does my conscience move me towards this? Is my reluctance to move to this door due to my pride, or my mere taste, or my personal dislike for this particular door-keeper?"
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"Never be an insincere friend, never be manipulative, one day you will be discovered and lose everything."
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"A real friend is one who helps us to think our best thoughts, do our noblest deeds, and be our finest selves."
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"All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost. ...Each human soul has in a sense to enact for itself the gigantic humility of the Incarnation. Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind."
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"A friend gave me a rainbow as a gift, so I put it up in the sky so everyone could share."
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"Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one's side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music, perhaps . . . perhaps . . . love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath."
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"Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same."
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"The hard fact of friendship is that you need to make time for new friends by first stripping out the people who are using your energy in an unsatisfying way. You have to take that risk of being friendless to make room in your life for others who will be your new best friends."
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"Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more."
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"There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone."
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"Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil."
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"Friendship is not a national affair, It goes beyond borders."
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"I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light."
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"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."
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"A friend is a person who always understands your preoccupations, even when other people do not perceive them at all."
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"Some, often without knowing it, suffered from being deprived of the company of friends and from their inability to get in touch with them through the usual channels of friendship, letters, trains, and boats. Others, fewer these, Tarrou may have been one of them, had desired reunion with something they couldn't have defined, but which seemed to them the only desirable thing on earth. For want of a better name, they sometimes called it peace."
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"Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality."
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"There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self."
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