Quotes about friendship

One word can end a fight One hug can start a friendship One smile can bring Unity One person can change your entire life!

I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime honours shower upon me from every side artists pay me compliments on my work there are many people to whom my position must seem enviable…. But I don’t seem to have a single real friend!

Friendship is like an investment the best type yields the best profit for you! It's not just about making friends it's about making right friends for the right reasons!

You turn friends away before you discover they were good after all you give up on your dreams before you realize you were very close to your success all that while. Be patient don’t rush things!

Watch your dreams and watch our friends. Take time and watch your friend again with sharpened eyes. Turn on your dreams again watch them again then watch your friends once more and know who to keep away and who to keep nearer!

Friends and People are like clouds and trees that we see hustling past the window of a running train.Trees are like PEOPLE.. all running.. in the opposite directionClouds are like our FRIENDS.. like family.. our near and dear ones..They remain with us No matter how far and at what pace we run..

Honour bought of coin is but grass in the wind. When the wind blows south it leans south when the wind blows north so does it lean. Hardly solid rock upon which to forge sturdy trust nor imperishable friendship

Don’t underestimate the dreams everyone has you have no knowledge about the one that would later marry your own. Be each other’s keeper and know that beautiful dreams date only beautiful dreams!

The major mistake people pursue in decision making is to surround themselves with negatively minded people. People who are going nowhere will never take you anywhere people who are going everywhere can take you somewhere.

Happiness held is the beginning happiness shared is the blossom

Interesting people aren't interesting because of what they always say the most interesting people are the ones that always listen!

I'm not asking you to walk in my shoes I'd never wish my afflictions on anyone. But could you walk beside me on secure ground and reach to hold my hand?

Marriage is the connecting of the two: Without passion it's just friendship without friendship it's just lust.

Damn this human who had come into her life and made himself so important to her had made coming to terms with her inner monster that much more difficult to bear.

We are truly human when we live for a purpose far above ourselves but most people prefer to identify with an entity for the sake of belonging thereby subjecting themselves to the spirit of collective selfishness that is only found in groups.

Religion consists much in holy affection but those exercises of affection which are most distinguishing of true religion are these practical exercises. Friendship between earthly friends consists much in affection but those strong exercises of affection that actually carry them through fire and water for each other are the highest evidences of true friendship.

We were a coven we were a crowd. We were a forest we were a three-headed dog.

The Covenant of Grace is that eternal and intimate bond of friendship that God has established with His people in the Lord Jesus Christ in which He is their sovereign friend and they are His servant friends and in which God gives to them a communion of life with Him and a sovereignly dictated order of life.

Our attitudes toward human relationships are those of supermarket shoppers: we want what is cheap and quick and easy we want variety and we want novelty. But friendship requires a whole other set of mind.

When our sympathy leads to friendship and our friendship leads to love only few will understand that it is the end of our past.

Lead your life with love and friendship self-love as your own friend.

All friends have secrets. We're like three-dimensional shapes on paper we all have hidden sides. And there's some secrets we don't even reveal to ourselves.

There is no way to your personal joy if you hand over the keys to someone who is not ready to open the door for you. You have the right to choose your friends do it carefully!

Sometimes people are so genuinely themselves they aren't conscious of the fact they have wronged you sometimes you shouldn't care enough to bring it to their attention.

Control is violence cooperation is friendship.

Talking on a landline with no interruptions used to be an everyday thing. Now it's exotic the jewel in the crown.

Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.

By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity I want other lights than my own to show all his facets.

We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we are and accepts us.

You make me feel like a firefly. Trapped in a belljar starved for love.

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.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance they make the latitudes and longitudes.

In prosperity our friends know us in adversity we know our friends.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.

True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

A faithful friend is a strong defense And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults greater to tell him his.

Your noble friend will not accept pretension but will gently and very firmly confront you with your own blindness. Such friendship is creative and critical it is willing to negotiate awkward and uneven territories of contradiction and woundedness.

She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

If I were not to put my arms out would I have not caught you when you fell

Honesty is a fine foundation from which to build upon for if one was to really know what another thinks and how they feel…they would surely treat each other differently

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals love an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

It was not something you could call friendship it was at once less and more. The sharing of such experiences created a bond and set them apart from all others. It was not something that could be told to another person. There were no words with a meaning both could understand which would impart the physical horror or the heights and depths of emotion.

Two main categories of people are needed in your circle those who give you the necessary support to accomplish your dreams and those who become beneficiaries of what you achieve.

There are two categories of friendship: those in which people enliven one another and those in which people must be enlivened to be with one another. In the first category one clears the decks to be together in the second one looks for an empty space in the schedule.

Friendship is like a walk in the wood you may not know the terrain too well or even know where you are headed yet you enjoy it all the same!

Maybe talking like they do -- like every trivial conversation is the height of their youth -- is what being friends is. There's no way I would do that I'd burst into laughter halfway.

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.

It made me realize that Beatrice had changed that she did not pull her wagon so much as she got taken for rides.

It's not that I'm angryYou've done nothing wrong.I'm just not sure why I'm stayingWhen you're already gone.

There's no room for me in your worldIt's time I stopped pretending.But nothing hurts me moreThan a friendship when it's ending.

It was fortunate that love did not need words or else it would be full of misunderstanding and foolishness.

Change is growth love is never lost.

Some might wonder that the two men should consider themselves to be old friends having only known each other for four years but the tenure of friendships has never been governed by the passage of time

The world needs someone they can admire from a distance from a very far distance.

You’re my best friend I notice when your hands shake. I notice when your big mouth goes quiet!

You don’t hit on your best friend’s love interest it’s an unspoken rule of friendship.

Ros was dead.He had loved heroin more than it loved him. I was shocked beyond imagining he was the first of my friends to fall.

Me too thy nobleness has taughtTo master my despairThe fountains of my hidden lifeAre through thy friendship fair.

Don't Sit Around Waiting For Someone Who's Taken A Walk off Your Life to Come Back Get Going Too!

You do not love me you love my success!

The creature may not haste above the maker neither may the world hold them at once that shall be created therein.

When was it that they who dwell upon the earth have not sinned in thy sight? or what people have so kept thy commandments? Thou shall find that you all by name had kept thy precepts but not the heathen.

There are no humans left. I should not be alone. I can’t help but wonder that. There were so many of us living. But time started growing young four years ago. It isn’t four years anymore. It’s a number I wouldn’t even be able to say. It feels like four years. It’s trapped in my tender memory as four years. It’s been an age. Multiple ages. It’s been lifetimes every single lifetime that used to exist. I remember my mother screaming. I recall the doctors naming me as nurses wiped away her blood and

Gratitude without practicing maybe like practicing a faith without good work. A grateful heart is not enough without a grateful habit because your joy is not produced by what you put in your heart but by habit you put in your life.

Be careful because God's gifts alone are not able to give you joy God's gift can only bring you joy when they are joined with your gratitude.

Thank God #EVEN# #THOUGH# in bad times not only in your good this is a graduated form of gratitude.

What is your motive when you go to church? To feed or to be fed? To serve or to be served? To worship or to be worshipped? To praise or to be praised? To teach or to learn? To give or to receive?Remember the woman with the issue of blood did not met Jesus in the church. Blind barthimus was blind though he could hear did not see Jesus but heard about Jesus passing I am just wondering how many people have heard about Jesus through you?Who was this man interested in? Your answer might be Jesus of c

Love doesn't make the world go 'round love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

I despise the rituals of fake friendship. I wish we could just claw each other's eyes out and call it a day instead we put on huge radiant smiles and spout compliments until our teeth hurt from the saccharine sweetness of it all.

It is not something we often find out but most of the specially-gifted have a deep desire to be ordinary.

Friends can speed up your steps or slow down your pace. Leaders choose friends wisely they are aware of the consequences.

Never hate an enemy love them and transform them into a friend.

Is this your boyfriend?" the first nun asked. Clair Olivia looked me up and down. “No. This is my gay friend who decided he was straight and single-handedly wrecked havoc at an all-boys school in Massachusetts this fall. He’s gay again and home for Christmas, so yay!

A truly virtuous man would come to the aid of the most distant stranger as quickly as to his own friend. If men were perfectly virtuous, they wouldn’t have friends.

In the property division splitting couples go through, the allocation of friends must surely be the most painful.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Friend. Before Mark, I’d known its definition. Now I knew its meaning.

If you have no friends, invent one!

In friendship, we are all debtors. We all owe each other for a thousand small kindnesses, for little moments of grace in the chaos.

The roller coaster came to a stop and a good friend got off, but what a ride we'd taken together. It had been one hell of a trip.

Write me, so it delights me in such a way to torment me.

The person who has never made an enemy will never make a friend.

A fool friend always does something that the enemy wishes.

She recalled her father saying to her, 'My dear Anna, do not forget that a friend who is not willing to risk his very friendship for a friend is perhaps not such a good friend as he thinks he is.

Your true friend is the one who will never walk away in your time of need.Regardless of the situation, time or location, your true friend will stand by you

A few caring kind quality friends are worth more than any amount of shallow popularity.

Your boyfriend shouldn't be your only friend.

Friendship is a sacred thing and I do not extend the word lightly. I've had long-term romances in my life but few genuine friendships. I am exceedingly picky about who I let in my inner circle and because of that I have a few friends and many acquaintances.

He felt like a brother of mine, but not at all like my actual brother. He seemed like someone I'd always know even if I never saw him again.

When you meet someone you want to know, be very careful on how you sit on the driving seat to examine that person because you may end up putting yourself on a serious examination. Sometimes people lose interest & walk away after a chat because of the type of questions & silly discussions you engage in. Sometimes your highest intelligence end up exposing your foolishness.

To make a friend you must close one eye. And to keep a friend, you must close both eyes.

No man can see himself unless he borrows the eyes of a friend

Be the type of friend you would like to have.

I looked at my friend. I don’t know what I had done to deserve her friendship but she was always there for me. She was there before my whole world came crashing down, she was there after, and she would be there ‘til they laid us both in the ground, side by side with matching tombstones that read best on one, and friends on the other—yeah it was morbid that we had this all planned out, but that was just us.

There is a third quality to friendship, and it is not as easy to put into a single word. The right word, literally, is "sympathy" - sym-pathos, common passion. This means that friendships are discovered more than they are created at will.

I've been thinking. You'd better be my bridesmaid, since you gave me the idea that led to this whole farce. It's a horrible job, I'm sure, so you deserve it. Plus, you're my friend. Will you do it?

The key to keep a great friendship is not to make friends with the people who are really not your friend.