Some of My Favorite Friendship Quotes

I wanted to publish some friendship quotes that will help you value your friends and enjoy being one.  As you move through life, it can be easy to overlook the value of a true friend. Relationships, move apart, come together and dissolve, and if you are not careful, those friendships will slip away into what used to be.  Often the factors of life, a spouse, children, career, can all combine to make that friendship that you once cherished, fall out of your consciousness and into a memory.  As time moves on, the relationship with that friend will move further into the past.  Eventually, there are so many that you long to see, but alas it is too late to retravel those roads, you took a turn years ago away from that friendship and it seems there is no way that you can’t get back from it. Friendship quotes always remind you that there is a path back.

“True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.” 
– Charles Caleb Colton

Today I am remembering all of the friendships that I have let fade over time.  Thinking of all of the very good people I have known, but no longer see, I think that the simple relationship of friendship is as powerful as anything in the world.  It has the ability to make you laugh, feel good, feel accepted and feel understood.  You belong, and there is no fee to pay other than to be yourself, and you are  accepted for that.

I also am truly grateful for the friendships that I am blessed with today.  Hopefully the wisdom of age will allow me to maintain these links to the soul that we call friends.

Friendship Quotes I Like

In the spiritual life nowhere do our ideals meet the actual more truly than in how we relate to each other, in how we make, sustain and are friends.

• James Ishmael Ford

Shared joy is double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.

-Swedish proverb

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.

-Emily Kimbrough

 Man is a knot into which relationships are tied.

-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

 No road is long with good company.

-Turkish Proverb

Some more great Friendship Quotes

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you are alone with.

-Wayne Dyer

 To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship.

-Domenico Cieri Estrada

 

 Trouble is part of your life, and if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.

-Dinah Shore

 It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

-Marlene Dietrich

 A true friend is one who thinks you are good egg even if you are half-cracked.

-Anonymous

 Friendship isn’t a big thing — it’s a million little things.

-Anonymous

 A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when memory fails.

-Donna Roberts

 A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.

-Grace Pulpit

 It takes a long time to grow an old friend

-John Leonard

Even more Friendship quotes

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.

-Anais Nin

 Friends are the sailors who guide your rickety boat safely across the dangerous waters of life.

-Sare and Cate

 Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

-Plautus

 The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.

-Barbara Kingsolver

 In my friend, I find a second self.

-Isabel Norton

 Let us be grateful to people who makes us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

-Marcel Proust

 

“My friends are my estate.”
– Emily Dickinson

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

“A friend is one who walks in when others walk out” 
-Walter Winchell

“A friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.” 
– Len Wein – Sent by Paulo Louro

“A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.” 
– Sent by Donna Roberts

“A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.” 

“Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead.
Walk beside me and be my friend.” 
– Albert Camus 

“A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more.”

“Everyone is a friend, until they prove otherwise.”
– sent by Steve

“Every person is a new door to a different world.”
– from movie “Six Degrees of Seperation”

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.

• Letty Cottin Pogrebin

The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.

• Francis Bacon

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.

• Elizabeth Foley

Some Final Friendship Quotes

We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.

• Arthur Ashe

Don’t believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

• Albert Camus

I hope you enjoyed the friendship quotes and they make you appreciate those friends that are continually aroud you.