Top 100 Being Friendship Quotes
#1. Sometimes
in the rare moments when she wasn't causing quite serious mental discomfort
being friends with Zoe was like being knocked dizzy by grace.
Chris Cleave
#2. Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
Teresa Of Avila
#3. Best friends, no matter what they do or how much they hurt you, it only hurts as much as it does because they are your best friend. And none of us are perfect. Mistakes were made for best friends to forgive; it's what makes being a best friend official.
J.A. Redmerski
#4. I wanted to survive - not for my kind, but for trust, for friendship, for another being. (Eric)
Shannon A. Thompson
#5. You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.
David Shore
#6. I wanted to tell it like it is, that they were right: it's nerve-wracking being a teenager. But instead, I explained to them the importance of being a trusted friend, and that friendship made the teenage years fun, when true camaraderie grew and developed.
Oddny Eir
#7. The true way and the sure way to friendship is through humility-being open to each other, accepting each other just as we are, knowing each other.
Mother Teresa
#8. One has only to set a loved human being against the fact that we are all in peril all the time to get back a sense of proportion. What does anything matter compared to the reality of love and its span, so brief at best, maintained against such odds?
May Sarton
#9. When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all the other things a mom is), and I was always grateful for that because I knew she was someone I could talk to and joke with, and argue with and that nothing would ever harm that friendship.
Marlo Thomas
#10. The selfish and self-centered have a hard time being kind, even though you and I know that kindness is a source of relief to the soul.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#11. The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being.
Konrad Lorenz
#12. No, Geo - underneath all that, Nan really loves me. It's just she wants me to see things her way. You know, she's two years older; that meant a lot when we were children. I've always thought of her as being sort of like a road - I mean, she leads somewhere. With her, I'll never lose my way.
Christopher Isherwood
#13. For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
Teresa Of Avila
#14. You will rarely make wise decisions if you surround yourself with fools
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#15. Being there when things are easy is one of the benefits of being a good friend. Being there when things get difficult is one of the tests.
Nina Guilbeau
#16. I think the issue of female friendship really resonates well with women, ... So many women have a friend like Darcy or can relate to the feeling of being second-fiddle to a friend.
Emily Giffin
#17. Just as the hand rushes involuntarily to protect one's honor in case of accidental state of undress, so does a friend come to his friend's aid without being asked
Thiruvalluvar
#18. You can get connections in lots of ways. You can get it by a friendship. You can get it by a dog. You can get it by a child. You can get it by being attached to a cause. You can get it by having huge problems and sharing those problems with other people.
Tony Robbins
#19. The worst thing about being concise with people is the game of puzzle you've made them play.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#20. Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.
Jonathan Edwards
#21. Who makes you least confused?"
"Calvin" There was no hesitation here. "When I'm with Calvin, I don't mind being me"
"You mean he makes you more you, don't you?"
"I guess you could put it that way.
Madeleine L'Engle
#22. Melville, by his own account, spent four months in the valley. He was well treated. He made friends with a girl called Fayaway, swam and boated with her, and except for his fear of being eaten was happy enough.
W. Somerset Maugham
#23. You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.
Truman Capote
#24. Bein friends is like being soldiers in the army. You live together, you fight together; you die together.
Ron Hall
#25. Friendship love. This is a very special thing. It's the sort of love where you know another being's strengths and weaknesses, perfections and imperfections, and you love the whole package.
Angelo Dirks
#26. I can't imagine anything more life-giving, more comforting, or more fun than being curled up and
surrounded by a group of women who know you deeply, and love you relentlessly.
Stephanie May Wilson
#27. Societies and people that come close to being happy are those that do well in narrowing the disparity between their desires and their needs, especially the material things of life.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#28. Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening.
Ruth Rendell
#29. Being popular or not, having company or being alone, are not issues of concern for the developed soul.
Donna Goddard
#30. For me, 'Lamb' started out as a further exploration of the phenomenon of faith and the responsibility of a messiah that I touched on in 'Coyote Blue' and 'Island of the Sequined Love Nun,' but it ended up being an exploration of the true meaning of sacrifice, loyalty, and friendship.
Christopher Moore
#31. Part of being friends with someone is knowing when to speak your mind and when to shut the hell up.
Christine Pope
#32. It's better being lonely than having friends that secretly hate you.
Nina Ardianti
#33. No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.
Madeleine Albright
#34. I measure my friends not by being there with me when everything is going well, but embracing me when I'm criticized and when I endure tough times.
Terraine Francois
#35. Being a person's true friend means endorsing the untruths he holds dearest.
Robert Wright
#36. May my thoughts of kindness stretch over like a warm blanket to envelop your being and caress your soul.
Truth Devour
#37. Our lives are a novel being written. We are its author. Every action we encounter and every person we meet has a role and a place in our ultimate story. It is in our control to decide the level of how, who and what impacts us and how large a role we decide to assign each.
Mark W. Boyer
#38. If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
Aldous Huxley
#39. It's just that no one wants to be the one being rescued, we all want to do the rescuing.
Steven Brust
#40. He still wasn't looking at me, which meant I was still in trouble. I swear, sometimes this partnership is like being married. We fight all the time and neither one of us is getting married.
John G. Hartness
#41. The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in change, as from the distaste we feel in being too little admired by those that know us too well, and the hope of being more admired by those that know us less.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#42. High standards generally
about workmanship and creation of objects, about what is owed in friendship, about the quality of art and much else
far from being snobbish, are required to maintain decency in life.
Joseph Epstein
#43. It is possible to cause seemingly biochemical changes through human emotional involvement. You literally have changed his chemistry by being his friend.
Steve Lopez
#45. Knowing this secret, being the only one chosen to know, makes me feel important in a way. But it's a negative importance, it's the importance of a blank sheet of paper. I can know because I don't count. I feel singled out, but also bereft.
Margaret Atwood
#46. Only worse thing than being cold, and too tired to defend yourself, is to be cold and alone. And I wouldn't ever wish that on nobody.
Steven J. Carroll
#47. Being known by everyone is not the same as being loved.
Dean Koontz
#48. Being friendzoned is like standing near fire. You stand there to seek some warmth, but get burnt instead.
Toffee
#49. An avidity for more is built into the love of movies. Something else is built in: you have to be open to the idea of getting drunk on movies. (Being able to talk about movies with someone
to share the giddy high excitement you feel
is enough for a friendship.
Pauline Kael
#50. I came to realize that one single human being, comprehended in his depth, who gives generously from the treasures of his heart, bestows on us more riches than Caesar or Alexander could ever conquer. Here is our kingdom, the best of monarchies, the best republic. Here is our garden, our happiness.
Ernst Junger
#51. Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#52. unspoken bond existed between the residents of Chapel Isle. The island was the same as the nets its fishermen cast at sea, a tight lattice of people tied by lives lived closely, knotted by friendship. Being here meant Abigail could become a part of that net as well, which was
Ellen Block
#53. Being blinded in love and friendship is a common mistake.
Eraldo Banovac
#54. The dog is the only living being that has found and recognizes an indubitable, tangible and definite god. He knows to whom above him to give himself. He has not to seek for a superior and infinite power.
Maurice Maeterlinck
#55. I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.
Whitney Houston
#56. I don't care too much about talking, but I don't like being alone.
Ida Lokas
#57. In order to understand the impact you can have on another's life by listening you need to first be intimate with the experience of being heard.
Madelaine Standing
#58. We were designed to love and to be loved, to reach our dreams to unleash our potentials but not live in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
Auliq Ice
#59. If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes.
Victoria Justice
#60. Locating friendship at the heart of mission involves certain assumptions
that reconciliation with God is something for which every human being is made and relationships are reciprocal.
Christopher Heuertz
#61. Another fella told me, he had a sister who looked just fine. Instead of being my deliverance, she had a strange resemblance to a cat name of Frankenstein.
Sam Cooke
#62. Elli-" Neve lies down next to him. "It is not easy being friend with someone who has depression. Not because it's a burden, but because you love them. So their pain becomes your own." She rests her hand on his chest. "You really expect me to just sit by and do nothing ?
Nelou Keramati
#63. The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
Samuel Johnson
#64. Everything was new, everything was exciting. We were playing house, it seemed, playing at being grownups. When you're in love, I suppose everything feels like a game.
S.E. Lynes
#65. What is it about friendship that makes being among friends so much richer than being among the most accomplished and interesting strangers?"---Connecting
Sandy Sheehy
#66. It was a gusty day, and from the windows of Caroline's top-floor flat, only the sky was visible with its little hurrying clouds. It was a day when being indoors was meaningful, wasting an afternoon in superior confidences with a friend before the two-barred electric heater.
Muriel Spark
#67. Friendship by its very nature consists in loving, rather than in being loved.
Henry Clay Trumbull
#68. But sometimes there's a difference between being needed and being taken advantage of.
Lindsey Kelk
#69. Sometimes I feel that what used to be once casual conversations between friends are now being substituted with forced conversations containing none of the warmth it possessed earlier. It's better to not have any conversation at all than have forced conversations.
Adhish Mazumder
#70. I love 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' and 'Extras' and also 'The Trip.' That had all the nuances of friendship and finding things out about their lives without it being too much plot-driven.
Dolly Wells
#71. And whatever troubled him and showed in his face might have been the same old trouble - the problem of occupying space in the world and having a name people could call you by, being somebody they thought they could know
Aldous Huxley
#72. I was just trying to be a friend,' I said. 'But you weren't, Charlie. At those times, you weren't being his friend at all. Because you weren't honest with him.
Stephen Chbosky
#73. One of the greatest acts of service you can do is to find someone who is secretly lonely and be a friend to them, if only for a day.
Dan Pearce
#74. All positive interactions with other human beings involve, to some degree, the experience of visibility
that is, the experience of being seen and understood.
Nathaniel Branden
#75. My husband doesn't have to try to add to my comedy he just does being himself and saying & doing the things he does. We have a good friendship & I think couples can relate to our dynamic and sometimes out lack of dynamics too.
Heather McDonald
#76. My idea of socialism is no state monopoly. There should be stress on the subjectivity of the human being. You need good material conditions, a high level of culture, much freedom and friendship. And it won't come today or tomorrow. It's a long and winding road
Marek Edelman
#77. Anacharsis coming to Athens, knocked at Solon's door, and told him that he, being a stranger, was come to be his guest, and contract a friendship with him; and Solon replying, "It is better to make friends at home," Anacharsis replied, "Then you that are at home make friendship with me.
Plutarch
#78. It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire to be close.
Rachel Cohn
#79. Do you love her?"
"Yeah."
"And that's a bad thing?"
"Because relationships end."
"What?"
"If I don't tell Aly how I feel, we'll stay friends. I can handle that. Friendship is real. It lasts, and it's safe."
"Loving someone, being loved ... it's worth the pain of losing them.
Rachel Harris
#80. Stop worrying about being that perfect person because no one is perfect. Put your focus on being that right person that will love, understand, and care for that other.
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
#81. My fear of being real, of being seen, paralyzes me into silence. I crave the touch and the connection, but I'm not always brave enough to open my hand and reach out. This is the great challenge: to be seen, accepted, and loved, I must first reveal, offer, and surrender.
Anna White
#82. Sometimes being a friend is enough in its own right to inspire someone on to victory.
Stephen Richards
#83. Clare wasn't worried anymore about their being mean to each other. She imagined that someday she's be part of a friendship in which she and the friend thought so highly of each other and were so sure or this that they could say anything.
Marisa De Los Santos
#84. I'm worried about my friend not being imagined complexly enough.
Esther Earl
#85. Marriage provides the solace of worked-on friendship and the joy of being known profoundly.
Imogen Stubbs
#86. My Best Friend and I have spent plenty of time together, despite me being in my First Ever Relationship. This is because friends should always come first.
Holly Smale
#87. True friends are not mirrors where we can always see ourselves reflected in a positive light.
Shannon L. Alder
#88. We were born to be friends. We both knew it. The Australian Aborigines have the traditional belief that a complete human being comprises two parts that are split before birth, that we spend our lives seeking the other part to make ourselves whole again, and that only the lucky succeed in doing so.
John Grant
#89. Sometimes being a good friend is about saying no, about trying to do what's best for your friend regardless of what they say.
Gitty Daneshvari
#90. A house without a roof would scarcely be a more different home, than a family unsheltered by God's friendship, and the sense of being always rested in His providential care and guidance.
Horace Bushnell
#91. Yet sometimes being a friend meant letting people do things that hurt, like putting distance between you, just because it made them happy.
Ann Aguirre
#92. Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it'll always get you the right ones.
John Lennon
#93. As my object was not myself, I set out with the determination, and happily with the disposition, of not being moved by praise or censure, friendship or calumny, nor of being drawn from my purpose by any personal altercation; and the man who cannot do this, is not fit for a public character.
Thomas Paine
#94. In love one had need of being believed, in friendship of being understood.
Abel Bonnard
#95. Nothing gives you confidence like being a member of a small, weirdly specific, hard-to-find demographic.
Mindy Kaling
#96. No words would ever be more powerful than the presence of a friend.
Rachel L. Schade
#97. I have many friends that don't claim to be followers of Christ. As far as day-to-day friendship and being together at various functions, I don't think that there should be any difference at all.
Billy Graham
#98. Friendship is a mysterious and ocean-bottom thing. Who can know the outer ranges of it? Perhaps no human being has ever explored its limits.
Zora Neale Hurston
#99. It's for the best. Thanks for being my friends.
Goodbye.
James Dashner
#100. One way to tell if you're really comfortable with a person is if you can be quiet together sometimes and not feel awkward. If you don't feel obligated to say something brilliant or funny or surprising or cool. You can just be together. You can just be.
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
