True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation. — George Washington
There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature. — Jane Austen
Stay close to people who feel like sunlight.
A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling. — Arthur Brisbane
A messy house is a must - it separates your true friends from other friends. Real friends are there to visit you not your house! — Jennifer Wilson
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 Breault
The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.
The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith. — Bertrand Russell
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
There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met. — Jim Henson
Acceptance is the universal currency of real friendship. . . .It does not warp or shape or wrench a person to be anything other than what they are. — Joan D. Chittister
True Friendship Quotes
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart — Eleanor Roosevelt
If you judge people, you have no time to love them. — Mother Teresa
Be careful who you call your friends. I’d rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies. — Al Capone
It is when you finally learn that your are all in your mind that your real life begins.
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strenghs; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities. — William Arthur Ward
When two friends understand each other totally, the words are soft and strong like an orchid's perfume. — Sara Jeannette Duncan
Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more selevtive you become.
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer. — Ed Cunningham
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words. — Donna Roberts
Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough. — Elif Safak
Deep Friendship Quotes
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable. — Bruce Lee
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. — Plato
Once there was a darkness, a deep and endless night, you gave me everything you had and oh, you gave me light — Sarah McLachlan
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Israelis can be proud of the vibrant democracy that they have created, and I know that many Rhode Islanders share my deep appreciation for the close friendship between our two nations. — Lincoln Chafee
If a fox is unable to befriend a tiger, then the fox should create an illusion of close association with the tiger by carefully trailing behind the cat while boasting of the deep friendship they share. In this way, he creates an impression that his well being is of great concern to the tiger. — Chin-Ning Chu
How amazing is it to find someone who wants to hear about all the things that go in your head.
Will it not be wise to allow the friendship between nations to rest upon deep and permanent things? Irritations of the cuticle must not be confounded with heart failure. — Benjamin Harrison
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. — Elie Wiesel
As human beings we each have a responsibility to care for humanity. Expressing concern for others brings inner strength and deep satisfaction. As social animals, human beings need friendship, but friendship doesn't come from wealth and power, but from showing compassion and concern for others. — Dalai Lama
The United States was the first country to recognize Israel in 1948, minutes after its declaration of independence, and the deep bonds of friendship between the U.S. and Israel remain as strong and unshakeable as ever. — Barack Obama
Real Friends Quotes
You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that's so real it scares you. You find strength in knowing you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end. — Bob Marley
Real value isn’t in what you own, drive, wear or live. The greater value is found in love and life, health and strength, friends and family! — T. D. Jakes
The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship. — Joseph Addison
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody is going to know whether you did it or not.
The real work is in the Heart:
Wake up your Heart! Because when the heart is completely awake,
Then it needs no Friend. — Rabia Basri
The realest people don’t have a lot of friends. — Tupac Shakur
If your heart was as big as your mouth you'd be real. — DMX
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
Dare to love and to be a real friend. The love you give and receive is a reality that will lead you closer and closer to God as well as those whom God has given you to love. — Henri Nouwen
Good-Bye is an easy word to say but try saying it to a friend. If I never knew you, I'd be safe, but half as real, never knowing I could feel. — Pocahontas
Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust. — Jesse Owens
Meaning Of Friendship Quotes
Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation. — Queen Elizabeth II
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion. — Simone de Beauvoir
I get by with a little help from my friends. — John Lennon
Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. — Rumi
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through? — Simone Weil
Friendship picks you up when the world lets you down.
No one can fully understand the meaning of love unless he's owned a dog. A dog can show you more honest affection with a flick of his tail than a man can gather through a lifetime of handshakes. — Gene Hill
I'd be happy to have my biography be the stories of my dogs. To me, to live without dogs would mean accepting a form of blindness. — Thomas Mcguane
It's the pointless things that give your life meaning. Friendship, compassion, art, love. All of them pointless. But they're what keeps life from being meaningless. — Tim Winton
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? — Lemmy Kilmister
If you don’t have a dream, then you have nothing to work for, nothing to get up in the morning for, no reason.. and no purpose to be. But friends we do have a dream and dreams do come true not because we keep believing but we keep working hard — Kai Greene
What are friends ? Friends are people that you think are your friends
But they really your enemies, with secret indentities
And disguises, to hide they true colors
So just when you think you close enough to be brothers
They wanna come back and cut your throat when you ain't lookin'. — Sayings
My friends keep telling me I'm doing it with Mary Palmer. That's not true - I'm too busy masturbating to meet anyone new. — Roddy Piper
The true friends of the people are neither revolutionaries, nor innovators, but traditionalists. — Pope Pius X
Being A True Friend Quotes
A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. — Douglas Pagels
A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother. — Benjamin Franklin
Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. — Jim Morrison
I'm just competitive. Everybody always says, 'You've gotta be crazy to do what you do.' It's not really true. Everything we do... is always about trying to out-do your friends. Trying to one-up, be a little faster, a little better, jump a little further. — Travis Pastrana
A True Friend who leaves heart felt messages, can be a lighthouse to others, sharing light and truth, which comes from their heart. — Tom Baker
A friend once said, and I found to be true,That everyday people, they lie to God too,So what makes you think, that they won't lie to you. — Lauryn Hill
But to have a friend, and to be true under any and all trials, is the mark of a man! — Charles Alexander Eastman
It's definitely a dream come true to be recognized and to be able to sign autographs. But, it's also a lot of hard work and can be draining. If you don't know already, you will quickly learn who your real friends are. — Christina Aguilera
It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public. — George Berkeley
Unique Friendship Quotes
He who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere. — Omar Khayyam
We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. — Albert Schweitzer
Thank God for the way He made you. You are special, distinct, and unique. You were not made from a common mold. Thank Him that you are special. — Erwin W. Lutzer
There is no wilderness like a life without friends; friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes; it is a unique remedy against adversity, and it soothes the soul. — Baltasar Gracian
Write what you like, then imbue it with life and make it unique by blending in your own personal knowledge of life, friendship, relationships, sex, and work. Especially work. People love to read about work. God knows why, but they do. — Stephen King
By listening, by caring, by playing you back to yourself, friends ratify your better instincts and endorse your unique worth. Friends validate you. — Gail Sheehy
Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or interest or even taste which the others do not share and which, till that moment, each believed to be his own unique treasure (or burden). — C. S. Lewis
Beautiful Friendship Quotes
My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges. — Helen Keller
Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie. — Robert Breault
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend. — Aristotle
Refusing to gossip is a beautiful decision to make. It not only creates richer friendships but, more importantly, it makes our relationship with the Lord more authentic and believable. We honor God when we honor each other. — Lysa TerKeurst
True friends are like diamonds – bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style. — Nicole Richie
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature. — P. G. Wodehouse
Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex. — Jane Austen
Science will never be able to reduce the value of a sunset to arithmetic. Nor can it reduce friendship to formula. Laughter and love, pain and loneliness, the challenge of beauty and truth: these will always surpass the scientific mastery of nature. — Louis Orr
A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. — Donna Roberts
I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. — Mahatma Gandhi
If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends. — Marilyn Manson
. . . success is a combination of many things, but a good character is the foundation of the kind of success that will bring you real happiness. Choose your friends wisely-they will make or break you. — J. Willard Marriott
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen — Rod McKuen
An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship. — Oscar Wilde
No medicine is more valuable , none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share happiness in time of joy. — Aelred of Rievaulx
Most of your friends aren’t really your friends. They’re just along for the ride when it’s fun, convenient, or valuable. Your real friends are the ones who are there for you when it's none of those—when you have nothing to offer in return. — Sahil Bloom
Freindshipp is beyond all relations of flesh and blood, because it is less materiall. — John Evelyn
Nothing of real worth can ever be bought. Love, friendship, honour, valour, respect. All these things have to be earned. — David Gemmell
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-Exupery
We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Say what you want about aging,
it's still the only way to have old friends. — Robert Breault
There is no friend like the old friend, who has shared our morning days,
No greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise:
Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold;
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A real friend is one who takes the hand of his friend in times of distress and helplessness. — Afghan Proverbs
The worst solitude is to have no real friendships. — Francis Bacon
There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends. — Sylvia Plath
No friendship is an accident. — O. Henry
To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing. — Baltasar Gracian
I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good Friends — William Shakespeare
Drink up cause everyone here is good tonight. Except the niggas that I came wit, they good for life — Drake
To be alone means that you avoid bad company. But to have a true friend is better than being alone. — Umar
Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly. — Leonardo da Vinci
Friends are the most important part of your life. Treasure the tears, treasure the laughter, but most importantly, treasure the memories. — David Brenner
There is no hope of joy except in human relations. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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