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50 Heartfelt Quotes About Friendship

Friends are the family that we choose for ourselves. They are soul mirrors who not only reflect our thoughts but even enhance them. They support our ups and downs. They are consistent and reliable. They cherish our growth and celebrate our successes as their own.

They are ready to stand up against the whole world for us. Yet they are honest about our shortcomings on our face. They are with us to hold our hand in tough times, even when they would rather be somewhere else. And most importantly, they respect our boundaries and never force us to go against our core values.

These are the traits of true friends and solid friendships. As an ode to these friends who have stood by us rock solid through the test of time yet never demanded anything in return, we have curated a list of quotes that define friendships and beautifully bring out the true meaning of being friends for life, through thick and thin.

Here are some heartfelt quotes about friendship:

“A real friend walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
“Friendship isn’t about whom you have known the longest. It’s about who came and never left your side.”
“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
“True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.”
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’”
“A friend overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.”
“In the sweetness of friendship, let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures.”
“A true friend is someone who is there for you when they’d rather be anywhere else.”
“Friends are the siblings God never gave us.”
“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”
“A friend is someone who makes it easy to believe in yourself.”
“Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.”
“Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.”
“Friendship is the comfort of knowing that even when you feel alone, you aren’t.”
“A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.”
“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.” Know who knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still gently allows you to grow.”
“True friends are never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart.”
“Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there.”
“A strong friendship doesn’t need daily conversation or being together. As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends never part.”
“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.”
“Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.”
“Friendship is a sheltering tree.”
“Sometimes, being with your best friend is all the therapy you need.”
“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”
“A friend is one of the nicest things you can have and one of the best things you can be.”
“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”
“Friends are like walls. Sometimes you lean on them, and sometimes it’s good just knowing they’re there.”
“A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.”
“Friendship isn’t a big thing – it’s a million little things.”
“A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart.”
“A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself.”
“The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.”
“One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.”
“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
“Friends are the pillars of strength that hold us together in life’s storms.”
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
“A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.”
“There are friends, there is family, and then there are friends that become family.”
“Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.”
“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”
“Some souls just understand each other upon meeting.”
“A friend is a gift you give yourself.”
“The best mirror is an old friend.”
“Life was meant for good friends and great adventures.”
“In my friend, I find a second self.”
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.”
“Friends are like the glue that keeps life and faith together.”
“Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life.”
“Real friendship is when your friend comes over to your house and then you both just take a nap.”

How To Let Your Friends Know They Are Special

We all like to feel that the love and compassion that we feel for our friends is reflected. Just like in any relationship, going the extra mile to let the other person know you care can go a long way in strengthening your bonds for life.

Here are a few ways you can let your friends know the importance they hold in your lives:

1. Express Gratitude

Communication is the cement that holds together strong relationships. The same holds true for friendships. So express your gratitude for fostering such wonderful friendships with your friends now and then.

This will help them know that the little things they do for you do not go unnoticed, even if you don’t emphasize it at the moment. You can send them a thank you card with one of the above-mentioned quotes if they have done something particularly nice for you.

2. Remember Important Dates

In the hustle and bustle of life, we sometimes lose contact for a long span of time. But the good thing about true friendships is that we may not talk for long periods, but when we do speak, it feels like we just spoke yesterday.

So, it is important to remember important dates about your friend, like their birthdays, or if they are celebrating a particular success on a specific date. If you are bad at remembering dates, set reminders on your phone. Being in touch with your friends on their special days is essential to keep the bonds fresh.

3. Be there for them in their tough times

As we just mentioned, sometimes life takes over, and we find it hard to constantly keep in touch with friends. However, when you are aware that your friend is going through a dark phase in their life, it is important to go out of your way to find time for them. More important than any material gift is when you give your friends the comfort of your companionship in their hard times.

4. Be supportive of their goals and ambitions

Your friends need your support when they have set high goals for themselves in life and other people are pulling them down. You have to be a good listener to them when they need someone just to hear their side of the story, give your honest opinion on how and what they should do to achieve their goals, encourage them, and be their greatest strength and support system. Believe me, they will never forget this gesture of who held them together, when everything else was falling into pieces.

5. Spend Quality time together

Set up that coffee date. Go to that movie together. Visit that art exhibition you have been planning for ages. Making time for your friends and hobbies is as essential to developing a well-rounded personality as it is to maintaining these beautiful friendships.

Spending quality time together every once in a while will help you keep updated on what’s happening in each other’s lives. And you will always have a support system when things start going rough and vice versa.

Wrapping up

Friends, they say, are like money. Easier made than kept. Thus, taking conscious steps to help your friendships last forever with those you consider genuine to your life is very important to live a fulfilled life.

As we said earlier, some friends become like our family. And then there is a family that is sometimes our best friend. Celebrating those members of our family who are our God-gifted best friends, here are 40 quotes appreciating the importance of family .

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Quotes About Friendship From Some of the Greatest Thinkers in Time

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What is friendship? How many types of friendship can we recognize, and in what degree shall we seek each of them? Many of the greatest philosophers in both ancient and modern times have addressed those questions and neighboring ones.

Ancient Philosophers on Friendship

Friendship played a central role in ancient ethics and political philosophy. The following are quotes on the topic from some of the most notable thinkers from ancient Greece and Italy.

Aristotle aka Aristotelēs Nīkomakhou kai Phaistidos Stageiritēs (384 – 322 B.C.):

In books eight and nine of the "Nicomachean Ethics," Aristotle divided friendship into three types:

Friends for pleasure: Social bonds that are established to enjoy one’s spare time, such as friends for sports or hobbies, friends for dining, or for parties.
Friends for benefit: All bonds for which cultivation is primarily motivated by work-related reasons or by civic duties, such as being friends with your colleagues and neighbors.
True friends: True friendship and true friends are what Aristotle explains are mirrors to each other and ''a single soul dwelling in two bodies."

"In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old, they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life, they incite to noble deeds."

St. Augustine aka Saint Augustine of Hippo (354 – 430 A.D.): "I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him."

Cicero aka Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 B.C.): "A friend is, as it were, a second self."

Epicurus (341 – 270 B.C.): “It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as it is, as the confidence of their help.”

Euripides (c.484 – c.406 B.C.): "Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness." and "Life has no blessing like a prudent friend."

Lucretius aka Titus Lucretius Carus (c.94–c.55 B.C.): We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another."

Plautus aka Titus Maccius Plautus (c.254–c.184 B.C.): "Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend."

Plutarch aka Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (c.45–c.120 A.D.): "I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better."

Pythagoras aka Pythagoras of Samos (c.570–c.490 B.C.): "Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life."

Seneca aka Seneca the Younger or Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c.4 B.C.–65 A.D.: "Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures."

Zeno aka Zeno of Elea (c.490–c.430 BC): "A friend is another self."

Modern and Contemporary Philosophy on Friendship

In modern and contemporary philosophy, friendship loses the central role it had played once upon a time. Largely, we may speculate this to be related to the emergence of new forms of social aggregations. Nonetheless, it is easy to find some good quotes.

Francis Bacon (1561–1626):

"Without friends the world is but a wilderness."

"There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friend, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his griefs to his friend, but he grieveth the less."

William James (1842–1910): "Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to 'keep' by force of inertia."

Jean de La Fontaine (1621–1695): "Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life."

Clive Staples Lewis (1898–1963): "Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."

George Santayana (1863–1952): "Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots."

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862): "The language of friendship is not words, but meanings."

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

To be honest with you, I don't have the words to make you feel better, but I do have the arms to give you a hug, ears to listen to whatever you want to talk about, and I have a heart; a heart that's aching to see you smile again.

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold. New-made friendships, like new wine, Age will mellow and refine. Friendships that have stood the test - Time and change - are surely best; Brow may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay. For 'mid old friends, tried and true, Once more we our youth renew. But old friends, alas! may die, New friends must their place supply. Cherish friendship in your breast- New is good, but old is best; Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold.

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

John Lennon quote: Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not...

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.

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.

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.

Friends, though absent, are still present.

[Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

When you ask God for a gift, Be thankful if he sends, Not diamonds, pearls or riches, but the love of real true friends.

A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.

John Lennon quote: Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always...

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Albert Schweitzer quote: In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is...

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

A friend is one who joyfully sings with you when you are on the mountaintop, and silently walks beside you through the valley.

Say what you want about aging, it's still the only way to have old friends.

If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

But remember, when it comes to friends, it's not how much time you spend with them, just how you spend it!

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