Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
A brother is a friend God gave you; a friend is a brother your heart chose for you.
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.
The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don’t need any fingers.
Friends are flowers that never fade.
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
In a fight friends will stay behind you and back you up but best friends will be in front of you to catch the punches.
The things that count most cannot be counted.
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
He’s my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
Friends are the part of our family that we never knew we had.
Friends are like raindrops once you loose them never come back, but best friends are like flowers they bloom with you from the start and never go away.
Best friends remember when you say to forget it. They’ll wait forever when you say just a minute. They know something is wrong when you say whatever. That’s how you know your best friends forever.
A good friend is someone who’s there for you when you are in reach and able to comfort but a best friend is someone who would be able to love you and comfort you if you are a million miles away.
A true friend sees the good in everything, and brings out the best in the worst of things.
Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.
A stranger stabs you in the front. A bad friend stabs you in the back. An ex-boyfriend stabs you in the heart. But . . best friends only poke each other with straws!
Friends never make assumptions about you. They never expect a reason to go out with you. In fact friends only expect you to be you.
In order to have friendship you must look past the color to the soul, because within the soul lies a rainbow of many colors.
Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.
God save me from my friends, I can protect myself from my enemies.
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
The most I can do 4 my friend is simply be his friend.
No person is your friend who demands you silence, or denies your right to an opinion.
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
True friendship is when two friends can walk in opposite directions, yet remain side by side.
A true friend sticks with you through thick and thin no matter what.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can fly only by embracing each other.
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends.
Who have given me a heart full of joy?
One of the best ways to keep friendship is to return it.
A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues as a friend unchanged.
Friends are god’s way of making us survive.
But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is, that they can grow separately without growing apart.
You find out who your true friends are when you are in trouble.