Friendship Quotes
One of the lesson’s I learned last year was the importance of having meaningful relationships. Relationships that push, challenge, and benefit me. During covid times, I had to accept some hard truths about the people I gave my time and energy to. I thought it was only fitting to share some of those thoughts with you.
“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.”
Maya Angelou
“Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there.”
Unknown
“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”
Jean de la Fontaine
“There’s nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.”
Jennifer Aniston
“The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.”
Elisabeth Foley
“True friends are never apart, maybe in distance but never in the heart.”
Unknown
“If we treated ourselves as well as we treated our best friend, can you imagine?”
Meghan Markle
“Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to level yourself up.”
Thomas J. Watson
“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
“A sweet friendship refreshes the soul.”
Proverbs 27:9
“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.”
Carl W. Buechner
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart.”
Helen Keller
“It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”
Marlene Dietrich
“A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.”
Donna Roberts
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
Walter Winchell
“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
“We weren’t sisters [or brothers] by birth, but we knew from the start… fate brought us together to be sisters [or brothers] by heart.”
Unknown
“Time doesn’t take away from friendship, nor does separation.”
Tennessee Williams
“There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.”
Jim Henson
“Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.”
G. Randolf
“True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.”
David Tyson
“Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.”
Ed Cunningham
“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and be understood.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
Bob Marley
“Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.”
Anna Taylor
“I may not always be there with you, but I will always be there for you.”
Unknown
“I don’t feel very much like Pooh today,” said Pooh. “There there,” said Piglet. “I’ll bring you tea and honey until you do.”
A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
Alice Walker
These thoughts are a great reminder to care about who you spend your time with. It is important to surround yourself with people who genuinely care and want the best for you. Relationships are a balance of give and take, so let’s use our time wisely.
See ya soon with something new!