Do you have friends? Do you treasure your friendship?
Friendship is a special kind of love, they are like family to us, and we work our entire lives building friendships. It comes in all sorts of forms and offers something totally unique and irreplaceable. True friends might be difficult to find but they are worth looking and keeping for.
It doesn’t hurt to let your friends or BFFs know how much they mean to you. These inspiring friendship quotes perfectly describe the beauty of friendship. So, go ahead and share one with your friends.
1. “If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.” – Zig Ziglar
2. “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” – Walter Winchell
3. “True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.” – David Tyson
4. “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
5. “There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.” – Jim Henson
6. “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
7. “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
8. “Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.” – Oscar Wilde
9. “A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.” – Unknown
10. “A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” – Arnold H. Glasgow
11. “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
12. “A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.” – Arnold H. Glasgow
13. “I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.” – Plutarch
14. “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
15. “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
16. One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.” – George Santayana
17. “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
18. “If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together… there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart… I’ll always be with you.” – Winnie the Pooh
19. “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” – Marcel Proust
20. “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
21. “Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” – Woodrow T. Wilson
22. “No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.” – Alice Walker
23. “Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.” – Ed Cunningham
24. “The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” – Elisabeth Foley
25. “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
26. “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
27. “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
28. “If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.” – Maxwell Maltz
29. “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
30. “A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.” – Bernard Meltzer
31. “A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.” – Donna Roberts
32. “Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.” – Charles Kingsley
33. “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
34. “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
35. “The best time to make friends is before you need them.” – Ethel Barrymore
36. “It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.” – Epicurus
37. “Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.” – Unknown
38. “It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.” – Marlene Dietrich
39. “Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone — but a part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.” – William Hazlitt
40. “When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.” – Donald Miller
A true friend is someone who can accompany you in your journey to personal development. But remember that personal development is not only about developing yourself – it also involves helping the people around you grow. Therefore, to find true friends, you have to be kind and true to both yourself and other people.
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