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30 Quotes of Friendship
Friendship: the emotions or conduct of friends; the state of being friends
As you continue on your path towards living a happy life full of gratitude and love, use these quotes in your daily practice.
1. “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus
2. “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard
3. “Friendship … is born at the moment when one man says to another “What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis
4. “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain
5. “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
6. “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
― Bob Marley
7. “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.”
― Joan Powers
8. “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
― Linda Grayson
9. “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
― Helen Keller
10. “Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”
― Sarah Dessen
11. “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.”
― Nicholas Sparks
12. “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
― Rumi
13. “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
― Aristotle
14. “I think if I’ve learned anything about friendship, it’s to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don’t walk away, don’t be distracted, don’t be too busy or tired, don’t take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.”
― Jon Katz
15. “Nobody likes being alone that much. I don’t go out of my way to make friends, that’s all. It just leads to disappointment. ”
― Haruki Murakami
16. “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
17. “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
18. “No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
― Alice Walker
19. “There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
― P.G. Wodehouse
20. “Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.”
― Richelle Mead
21. “Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
― Abraham Lincoln
22. “The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
23. “If you have two friends in your lifetime, you’re lucky. If you have one good friend, you’re more than lucky.”
― S.E. Hinton
24. “Words are easy, like the wind; faithful friends are hard to find.”
― William Shakespeare
25. “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.”
― Ally Condie
26. “The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families.”
― Jay McInerney
27. “The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
28. “Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”
― Elie Wiesel
29. “Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.”
― Charles Lamb
30. “Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don’t have trust, the friendship will crumble.”
― Stieg Larsson
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