Best 101 Friendship Quotes

• Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

• We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

• One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

 

• My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

 

• A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

• A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

 

• I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

 

• The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

 

• Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you.

 

• A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

 

• Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

 

• There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

 

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

 

• There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

 

• We all need each other.

 

• We are advertised by our loving friends.

 

• Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.

 

• Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.

 

• Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

 

• The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

 

• Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success, yours or his.

 

• Never explain, your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

 

• 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.

 

• Have no friends not equal to yourself.

 

• The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

 

• Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

 

• What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

 

• A friend is a second self.

 

• It’s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.

 

• Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

 

• Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

 

• Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .

• Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

• A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

• Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

• It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

• If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

• The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

• If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.

• 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

• There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.

 

• When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.

 

• When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean 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. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

• Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.

• You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.

• I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.

• Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

• Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

• Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.

• What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

• 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.

• Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.

• There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.

• Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

• Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.

• Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.

• “If you have good friends, no matter how much life is sucking , they can make you laugh.

• The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.

• The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

• Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.

• Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

• Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success

• The best mirror is an old friend.

• Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.

• If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.

• No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

• Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.

• True friends are like diamonds – bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.

 

• In love, loss and gain are harmonized. In its balance-sheet, credit and debit accounts are in the same column, and gifts are added to gains. In this wonderful festival of creation, this great ceremony of self-sacrifice of God, the lover constantly gives himself up to gain himself in love. Indeed, love is what brings together and inseparably connects both the act of abandoning and that of receiving.

• In love, at one of its poles you find the personal, and at the other the impersonal. At one you have the positive assertion — Here I am; at the other the equally strong denial — I am not. Without this ego what is love? And again, with only this ego how can love be possible?

 

• We never can have a true view of man unless we have a love for him. Civilization must be judged and prized, not by the amount of power it has developed, but by how much it has evolved and given expression to, by its laws and institutions, the love of humanity. The first question and the last which it has to answer is, Whether and how far it recognizes man more as a spirit than a machine? Whenever some ancient civilization fell into decay and died, it was owing to causes which produced callousness of heart and led to the cheapening of man's worth; when either the state or some powerful group of men began to look upon the people as a mere instrument of their power; when, by compelling weaker races to slavery and trying to keep them down by every means, man struck at the foundation of his greatness, his own love of freedom and fair-play. Civilization can never sustain itself upon cannibalism of any form. For that by which alone man is true can only be nourished by love and justice.

 

• Man is not entirely an animal. He aspires to a spiritual vision, which is the vision of the whole truth. This gives him the highest delight, because it reveals to him the deepest harmony that exists between him and his surroundings. It is our desires that limit the scope of our self-realization, hinder our extension of consciousness, and give rise to sin, which is the innermost barrier that keeps us apart from our God, setting up disunion and the arrogance of exclusiveness. For sin is not one mere action, but it is an attitude of life which takes for granted that our goal is finite, that our self is the ultimate truth, and that we are not all essentially one but exist each for his own separate individual existence.

• Of course man is useful to man, because his body is a marvellous machine and his mind an organ of wonderful efficiency. But he is a spirit as well, and this spirit is truly known only by love. When we define a man by the market value of the service we can expect of him, we know him imperfectly. With this limited knowledge of him it becomes easy for us to be unjust to him and to entertain feelings of triumphant self-congratulation when, on account of some cruel advantage on our side, we can get out of him much more than we have paid for. But when we know him as a spirit we know him as our own. We at once feel that cruelty to him is cruelty to ourselves, to make him small is stealing from our own humanity...

 

• Want of love is a degree of callousness; for love is the perfection of consciousness. We do not love because we do not comprehend, or rather we do not comprehend because we do not love. For love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us. It is not a mere sentiment; it is truth; it is the joy that is at the root of all creation. It is the white light of pure consciousness that emanates from Brahma. So, to be one with this sarvānubhūh, this all-feeling being who is in the external sky, as well as in our inner soul, we must attain to that summit of consciousness, which is love: Who could have breathed or moved if the sky were not filled with joy, with love?

• The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual. Buddha preached the discipline of self-restraint and moral life; it is a complete acceptance of law. But this bondage of law cannot be an end by itself; by mastering it thoroughly we acquire the means of getting beyond it. It is going back to Brahma, to the infinite love, which is manifesting itself through the finite forms of law.

 

• The meaning of the living words that come out of the experiences of great hearts can never be exhausted by any one system of logical interpretation. They have to be endlessly explained by the commentaries of individual lives, and they gain an added mystery in each new revelation. To me the verses of the Upanishads and the teachings of Buddha have ever been things of the spirit, and therefore endowed with boundless vital growth; and I have used them, both in my own life and in my preaching, as being instinct with individual meaning for me, as for others, and awaiting for their confirmation, my own special testimony, which must have its value because of its individuality.

 

• A Wonderful Story of Friendship & Values……

 

A story tells that two friends were walking

through the desert. During some

point of the journey they had an argument, and

one friend slapped the other one in the face.

The one who got slapped was hurt,

 

but without saying anything, wrote in the sand:

TODAY MY BEST FRIEND

SLAPPED ME IN THE FACE.

They kept on walking until they found an oasis,

 

where they decided to take a bath. The one who

had been slapped got stuck in the mire and

started drowning, but the friend saved him.

After he recovered from the near

 

drowning, he wrote on a stone:

TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SAVED MY LIFE.

The friend who had slapped and

saved his best friend asked him,

 

“After I hurt you, you wrote in the

sand and now, you write on a stone,

why?” The other friend replied “When someone

hurts us we should write it down in sand where winds

of forgiveness can erase it away. But, when someone

 

does something good for us, we must engrave

it in stone where no wind can ever erase it.”

LEARN TO WRITE YOUR HURTS IN THE SAND

AND T O CARVE YOUR BENEFITS IN STONE.

They say it takes a minute to find a special person,

an hour to appreciate them,

 

a day to love them,

but then an entire life to forget them.

Send this phrase to the people you’ll never

forget. It’s a short message to let them

know that you’ll never forget them.

- MORAL -

Do not value the THINGS you have in your life..

But value WHO you have in your life!