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Insightful Quotes About Friends & Friendship

Friends are the most important component of our lives. They help us breeze through hard times and brighten our happy moments. At every stage in our lives, our friends and our quality of friendships have a direct impact on well-being. The things we enjoy such as playing a sport, going out for a movie or dinner, or even just taking a stroll are enhance in the company of our friends. Friends can not only act as a support system, but they help you through major phases in your life by guiding you and holding your hand. The most cherished of friendships last throughout our lives and everyone should actively seek for such friends. The value of friendships has been explored countlessly by many social scientists and researchers, and the result is pretty much the same. A good friend will boost your quality of life. You can read some loving and encouraging thoughts on friends here.

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark Twain

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
J. K. Rowling

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
Jane Austen

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.
Rita Mae Brown

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

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich

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

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

I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
Oscar Wilde

I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.

I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.
Edgar Allan Poe

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.

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

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
Abraham Lincoln

Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.

Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.
William Shakespeare

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.

Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.
George Bernard Shaw

Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.

Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
Virginia Woolf

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart
Eleanor Roosevelt

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
C. S. Lewis

There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.

There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
Sylvia Plath

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
Oscar Wilde

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.
David Byrne

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Aristotle

Be glαd of life, becαuse it gives you the chαnce to love αnd to work αnd to plαy αnd to look up αt the stαrs; to be sαtisfied with your posessions, to despise nothing in the world except fαlsehood αnd meαnness αnd to feαr nothing except cowαrdice; to be governed by your αdmirαtions rαther thαn by your disgusts, to covet nothing thαt is your neighbour's except his kindness of heαrt αnd gentleness of mαnners; to think seldom of your enemies, often of your friends and to spend αs much time αs you cαn with body αnd with spirit.
Henry Van Dyke

Many of the network television shows have done takeoffs on 'Family Circus,' including 'David Letterman,' 'Friends,' 'Roseanne,' and others, and, in my estimation the use of them is a compliment to the popularity of the feature, which just by mentioning it's name sets up the image of a warm, loving family-type feature.
Bil Keane

I enjoyed the meetings, too. It was like having friends.

I enjoyed the meetings, too. It was like having friends.
J. K. Rowling

They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.

They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.
Thomas Hardy

My heart is warm with the friends I make,
And better friends I'll not be knowing,
Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take,
No matter where it's going.

My heart is warm with the friends I make, And better friends I'll not be knowing, Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, No matter where it's going.
Edna St. Vincent Millay

When I was a kid, there was no collaboration; it's you with a camera bossing your friends around. But as an adult, filmmaking is all about appreciating the talents of the people you surround yourself with and knowing you could never have made any of these films by yourself.
Steven Spielberg

Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.

Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.
David Sedaris

I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.

I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.
Steven Spielberg

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
Stephen King