111 Quotes On Friendship That Prove Friendship Is A Sheltering Tree
“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.” – Tennessee Williams
“A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.”-Douglas Pagels
“Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.” – Ed Cunningham
“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.” -Ray Bradbury
“You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.” – Laurence J. Peter
“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” — Oprah Winfrey
“Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.”-Jacques Delille – Quotes On Friendship
“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.” — Dale Carnegie
“Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.” – Emil Ludwig
“Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.” — Miles Franklin
Quotes About Friends
“Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.” – Thomas J. Watson
“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
“I don’t know what I would have done so many times in my life if I hadn’t had my girlfriends.”-Reese Witherspoon
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.”-Henri Nouwen
“Friends are the siblings God never gave us.”-Mencius – Quotes On Friendship
“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.”-Muhammad Ali
“Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.” – Unknown
“How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live ’em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give ’em.” – Shel Silverstein
“People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.” — Joseph F. Newton Men
“Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.”-Charles Kingsley
“A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence; which costs us nothing.”-John Tillotson
“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?” – Eugene Kennedy
“A friend is a gift you give yourself.”-Robert Louis Stevenson
Washington Irving
“Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.” – Oscar Wilde
“One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words, they lie concealed in the silence between the words or in the depth of what is unsayable between two people.”-John O’Donohue
“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.” – Gloria Naylor
“One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.” – Clifton Fadiman
“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.”-Charles Lamb
“We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends – your own chosen family. There’s nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.”-Jennifer Aniston
“A friend to all is a friend to none.”-Aristotle
Best Friendship Quotes
“It’s the friends you can call up at 4am that matter.”-Marlene Dietrich
“Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they’re trying to find someone who’s going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.” — Anthony Robbins
“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.” – Confucius
“The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.” — Dale Carnegie
“Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.” – Mark Twain
“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate. “ – Linda Grayson
“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.” – Muhammad Ali
“True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.”-Charles Caleb Colton
“It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.” – Marlene Dietrich
“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”-Khalil Gibran – Quotes On Friendship
“The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Every friendship travels at sometime through the black valley of despair. This tests every aspect of your affection. You lose the attraction and the magic.”-John O’Donohue
“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.”-Arnold H. Glasgow
“Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.” – Charles Kingsley
“A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.” – Unknown
“Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God’s greatest gifts. It involves many things, but above all the power of going out of one’s self and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.”-Thomas Hughes
“Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.”-Aristotle
“An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.”-Buddha
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” -Anais Nin
“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.” – Leo Buscaglia – Quotes On Friendship
“I think if I’ve learned anything about friendship, it’s to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don’t walk away, don’t be distracted, don’t be too busy or tired, don’t take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.”-John Katz
“Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.”-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Saying On Friendship
“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.”-Octavia Butler
“Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives.”-Alexander Dumas
“Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.”-Thomas J. Watson
“One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.”-Mindy Kaling
“True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.” – David Tyson
“True friends don’t judge each other, they judge other people together.”-Emilie Saint-Genis
“Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.”-Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”-Woodrow T. Wilson
“The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.”— Henry David Thoreau
“There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound.” – Diana Cortes
“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”-Elbert Hubbard – Quotes On Friendship
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”-Aristotle
“Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.”’ – Socrates
“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”-Henry David Thoreau
“The only good thing about times of adversity is that you realize who your real friends and fans are – and the rest go away – which in my mind is an OK thing.”-Pete Wentz
“Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.” – William Arthur Ward
“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?”-Eugene Kennedy
“Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.” – Oscar Wilde – Quotes On Friendship
“Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.” – Albert Camus
“True friendship is never serene.”-Marquise de Sevigne
“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.” – Khalil Gibran
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.” – C.S. Lewis
“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself — and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.”-Jim Morrison
“In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.”-Albert Schweitzer
“Where there are friends, there is wealth.”-Titus Maccius Plautus – Quotes On Friendship
Quotes About Best friend
“The best time to make friends is before you need them.” – Ethel Barrymore
“True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.”-Henry David Thoreau
“There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.”-Jim Henson
“Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.”-H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that.” – Ally Condie
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.” – Alice Walker
“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.” – Ernest Hemingway
“If you can survive 11 days in cramped quarters with a friend and come out laughing, your friendship is the real deal.”-Oprah Winfrey
“I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.”-Walt Whitman
“If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.” – Winnie the Pooh
“Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.”-Amy Poehler
“Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.”-Washington Irving
“Things are never quite as scary when you have a best friend.”-Bill Watterson
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” – Walter Winchell
“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”-Sarah Desse
“I think about my best friendship – which the Marnie-Hannah friendship in Girls is based on – as like a great romance of my young life.”-Lena Dunham
“A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.”-Donna Roberts
“A friendship that can end never really began.”-Publilius Syrus
Quotes On Friendship
“I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.”-Robert Brault
“They make me stronger; they make me braver.”-Jane Fonda – Quotes On Friendship
“Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected.”-C.J. Langenhoven
“Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.”
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.” — Audrey Hepburn
“You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.” – Laurence J. Peter
“There’s one sad truth in life I’ve found. While journeying east and west – The only folks we really wound. Are those we love the best. We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest, And deal full many a thoughtless blow. To those who love us best.” – Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.” – Epicurus
“One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.” – George Santayana
“Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone — but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.” – William Hazlitt
“Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.”-Socrates
“Some souls just understand each other upon meeting.”-N. R. Hart – Quotes On Friendship
“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.”-Oscar Wilde
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