Quotes about friend-quotes

The bitterest fruit tastes sweet when you share it with someone you love.

Those who know you see your tears even in the rain.

Genuine friends will NOT be intimidated by your success. They will be happy for you and celebrate you! Don’t fool yourself jealousy and friendship do NOT mix.

Spend time with people who enrich your mind, nourish your heart, and illuminate your soul.

Temporary friends sometimes bring us to permanent blessings.

But that’s the way life is; felicity and expiation play together in the narrow lanes of life like bosom friends, inseparable. You find one, and the other is always around the corner.

Conversations between friends are the craziest and funniest of all.

I have a wide circle of friends, wide enough to keep them away from me.

In poverty, friends are few; in prosperity, acquaintances are numerous; in affluence, associates are countless.

Leave beauty marks in the lives of those you meet, not scars.

Behind you, leave your enemies. Beside you, keep your family. Around you, maintain your friends. Within you, treasure God.

A flower takes a while to grow, but can die in an instant; this is how it is with trust.

It is wise to buy acquaintances, but foolish to buy friends.

You are no greater than the friends you keep, the books you read, the heroes you admire, and the obstacles you overcome.

It is better to help an enemy than to harm a friend.

Learn from acquaintances, and you are clever; from friends, and you are intelligent; from enemies, and you are shrewd; but learn from all, and you are wise.

Time is your acquaintance. Life is your friend. Death is your opponent. Eternity is your companion.

If you live in the desert, view the sun not as your enemy, but as your friend. If you live in the wilderness, view nature not as your adversary, but as your companion.

A kind stranger is better than an uncaring friend.

Those who laugh with you when you laugh are acquaintances, those who cry with you when you cry are companions, and those who do both are friends.

In my youth I had three teachers: friends, enemies, and books. In my adulthood I had three professors: God, nature, and life.

Ignorance is your opponent, fear is your enemy, vice is your adversary, virtue is your friend, and wisdom is your helper.

If you have a house but no home, you are homeless; knowledge but no wisdom, you are imprudent; acquaintances but no friends, you are lonely; money but no happiness, you are poor; and life but no joy, you are lifeless.

You don’t choose the music your enemies play, but you choose which songs you dance to.

Don't downgrade your dreams to upgrade your relationships.

Elevate yourself away from anything or anyone who stunts your growth by distraction, you will never get round to watering your own plant if you wait for there approval to do so. Before you know it there garden will be full and yours would never have been started.

Friendship isn't about becoming somebody else perfect person. It is about finding someone who helps you become the best person you can be.

You shouldn’t have to pretend to be as excited as I am just to make me happy. If it comes to that, you shouldn’t have to pretend to be anything around me. Friends should be real with each other

I got through it, and I wore it like a badge of honor—I Can Be Alone and it's Okay.

I Can Be Alone and it's Okay.

I know he’s a realist, he’s okay with being alone, and he helps people when he thinks no one is watching.

I suppose that means you don’t want any band-aids, either,” I said, a touch more bitterly than I’d meant to.

When the moment shifts, and you realize you don't actually want to be alone, that underneath the bravado is an ache that won’t quite fade away, you’re not only aware of how lonely you are, but how much you've been lying to yourself.

I had always thought that I was fine with being alone. Halfway through high school, I moved from Brazil to America, and it took me forever to make friends. I had culture shock of virtually every kind, besides which I was awkward, geeky, and shy. So I ate alone, telling myself that it was fine while I watched other people have normal conversations with their friends.

Well, if you can accept that I’m a great big geeky fangirl, then I guess I can accept that you’re a skeptic and a realist.

It was nice. Even in high school, I’d mostly had makeshift friends forged by the shared status of outcast. It was rare for me to discuss things so easily to someone outside of my family, but somehow Jill got me.

I bundled in my own blanket and reflected on the strange and somewhat unexpected friendship that was slowly developing between Davin and myself. It was clear to me that he needed a friend, but for reasons unknown to me, thought that it was better for him to be alone.

Keep negative people in your prayers, not in your life.

One friend in a storm is worth more than a thousand friends in sunshine.

Don't burn your bridges until you build better ones.

Wisdom is a reliable companion.

Love lost is better than hate found. True criticism is better than false praise. Genuine enemies are better than counterfeit friends.

If you kiss her cheeks, she is your friend; if you kiss her lips, she is your lover; if you kiss her heart, she is your soul mate.

Joy is the best companion, virtue is the noblest acquaintance, wisdom is the cleverest friend, and love is the kindest soul mate.

Joy is a loyal companion, love is a faithful friend, fear is a terrible adversary, and hatred is a merciless enemy.

Love your friends with your eyes closed, but love your enemies with both eyes open.

You miss a lot of a person’s life when you don’t keep in touch. Maybe that’s the point.

Marry your friend, and you will be reasonably happy. Marry your lover, and you will be abundantly happy. Marry your soulmate, and you will be infinitely happy.

If you have no one, you are poor; if you have an acquaintance, you are fortunate; if you have a friend, you are privileged; if you have a lover, you are rich; if you have a soulmate, you are wealthy.

Don’t try to make anyone like you. Work on you and the right people will be drawn to you. Mind games consume energy that could have been used on something more productive and fulfilling.

If they don't like you for who you are, it means they're not meant to be in your life.

Friendship! That bond shared, not with the one you see every day but with the one that has got your back any day.Well, that seems so hard to find these days.So just be the best friend to yourself until you have found a best friend like yourself.

Life experiences shared with a friend will turn into memories to be enjoyed.