Friendship Is About Quotes

#1. Friends don't spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.

Stephen King

#2. I learned that a real friendship is not about what you can get, but what you can give. Real friendship is about making sacrifices and investing in people to help them improve their lives.

Eric Thomas

#3. My arm is weighted by the huge pile of clothing she's hung over it. A moment of clarity comes over me. This isn't what friendship is about, I know that now.

Dawn O'Porter

#4. A lot of friendship is about practice, that's something I've learned as I've gotten older. It's not simply some spiritual soul-bond of memories and longings, it's really about having coffee every week, or talking on the phone every day or every other day - whatever suits you.

Ann Brashares

#5. Because friendship is about laughing when the other person is joking to make you feel better. Even if you don't find her joke all that funny.

Padma Venkatraman

#6. But [Patrick's] character is partly based on a boy named Mark who lived across the street from me when I was growing up ... I liked hanging out with him and was sad when he moved away after only a year in the neighborhood. I guess writing about Patrick is a way for me to spend more time with Mark.

Linda Sue Park

#7. The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when.

Simon Sinek

#8. People form close friendships by knowing private things about each other, and the reason most people don't make close friends is because they're too embarrassed to share anything really important about themselves.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#9. Obey God in the things he shows you, and instantly the next thing is opened up. God will never reveal more truth about himself until you have obeyed what you know already ... this chapter brings out the delight of real friendship with God.

Oswald Chambers

#10. The great thing about true best friends is that when you go MIA for a few months, they inquire but they don't press. Best friends know the power of infatuation but also how quickly it dissipates. You just have to wait it out. And then afterward, tease them about it for decades.

Mindy Kaling

#11. 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

#12. The coolest thing about fandom is the friendships made along the way with people who share your passions.

Jacquelyn Middleton

#13. Honesty is not always the best
policy when it hurts the
person you care about the
most and pushes them away.

Alison G. Bailey

#14. Answer, yeah I know it... We were for little period of time texting nothing else... no friendship is available as a feature but you are talking about relationship and marriage are you right with your mind?

Deyth Banger

#15. My retelling of events to Zoe is what grounds them, shapes them, makes them real. If I can't tell Zoe about kissing Danny Spinelli, it didn't happen.

Wendy Wunder

#16. A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Elbert Hubbard

#17. Oh, get off it with that. So sensitive about language. Mate, love, nest, whatever. Point is, it stinks, especially when it goes bad. I get wanting to run away.

Jackson Lanzing

#18. It has often been hard for me to know if people are serious when they talk about making T-shirts. Just to be clear: Nobody ever means it, ever. Making and wearing matching, themed T-shirts is embarrassing. Unless you want to make some with me right now, or something.

Katie Heaney

#19. Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it.

Oscar Wilde

#20. Friendship is a weird sort of thing when you think about it.

Rachael Lucas

#21. It is unpredictable for you to know which of the strangers you are about to meet that becomes your friend. Be polite to every stranger!

Israelmore Ayivor

#22. Ten minutes with a genuine friend is better than years spent with anyone less.

Crystal Woods

#23. What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.

Ian McKellen

#24. And like a favorite old movie, sometimes the sameness in a friend is what you like the most about her.

Emily Giffin

#25. It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like What about lunch?

A.A. Milne

#26. Meg Ryan is a beautiful and courageous woman. I grieve the loss of her companionship but I've not lost the friendship. We talk all the time and that was what our connection was about. She has a wonderful mind and we just like a chat.

Russell Crowe

#27. Friendship is not like throwing a stone into well, it's about catching a stone while falling into well.

Saravanan

#28. One of the things about Scrubs is that it's about great friendships and ... as broad and as serious as we get it's always really about friendship. It's about getting through the challenging parts of your life with the help of your friends.

Zach Braff

#29. Writing enters into us when it gives us information about ourselves we are in need of *at the time that we are reading.* How obvious the thought seems once it has been articulated! As with love, politics, or friendship: readiness is all.

Vivian Gornick

#30. The first two lessons, which we learned early in our efforts to be good member missionaries, have made sharing the Gospel much easier: We simply can't predict who will or won't be interested in the Gospel, and building a friendship is not a prerequisite to inviting people to learn about the Gospel.

Clayton Christensen

#31. Friendship is all about trust and sharing. Passionate and romantic love is all about sex and emotions. You have to try to combine those, I think. The great marriages, the great couples I know, have both.

Isabel Allende

#32. Anyone can become your best friend when you spend time together and share your feelings about life. However, not every best friend can free you from yourself. This is when you reconsider the word "best" and decide to expand your circle to include others.

Shannon L. Alder

#33. As juvenile as we sound, sometimes the most fun thing in the world is laughing with girls about boys.

Daria Snadowsky

#34. And that is the beautiful thing about friendship: we can take liberties, we can show our frailer side, we can afford the vast luxury of giving way to our boredom when we are bored, our anger when we are angry, our peckishness when we feel downhearted.

Sydney J. Harris

#35. A true friend is the one who treats you and gives you advices, exactly as if he is treating himself and giving advices to himself, so if you are a true friend never ever talk about your friends behind their backs, cause you must be sure that you are talking about yourself

Mona Hanie

#36. Anything that's human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.

Fred Rogers

#37. They are a great essay in male friendship, which has gone now. Men's friendship has been debased. One of the lovely things about Holmes and Watson is that they do have this great platonic relationship.

Jeremy Brett

#38. The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Elbert Hubbard

#39. Only through the development of mutual respect, and in a spirit of truth, can friendship come about. By these means it is possible to move human minds, but never by force.

Dalai Lama XIV

#40. One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.

Mindy Kaling

#41. We watch her walk into the spotlight she's been been hiding from most of her life. Sure, friendship is all about believing in someone so hard they believe it, too. Sure, it's about trust. But if anyone hurts her tonight, it's about ripping them apart with my bare hands and really enjoying it.

Cath Crowley

#42. The thing about a friendly smile is not just that it makes people like you but that it makes them like themselves.

Robert Breault

#43. Any friendship or relationship is about a language.

Gina Bellman

#44. The worst thing about being concise with people is the game of puzzle you've made them play.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#45. And I also believe that love can work miracles."
"Love?" She cocked an eyebrow at him. "What about friendship? Can that work miracles, too?"
Carwyn rolled his eyes. "Silly B, love is friendship ... just with less clothes, which makes it far more brilliant.

Elizabeth Hunter

#46. I'm not a size zero, I'll never be a size zero, and the number of fucks I give about that is zero.

Lauren Gallagher

#47. There are things in the world that cannot be brought about. There are mistakes that cannot be repaired. But there is one thing sure
that loyalty and friendship are the most precious possessions a man can have.

Herbert Hoover

#48. Like many of us left here I thought I knew you. Now I discover that in your company it is myself I know. That is the astonishing gift of your art and your friendship: You gave us ourselves to think about, to cherish.

Toni Morrison

#49. Then thre is Brian. It's been a slow-grow love with its roots in our friendship. We disagree about everything that's not important, like politics and religion, but agree on everything that is important, like where the dustpan and brush should live, and his sons' girlfriends.

Kate Kerrigan

#50. To me, the Sherlock Holmes stories are about a great friendship. Without Watson, Holmes might well have burnt out on cocaine long ago. I hope the series shows how important friendship is.

Jeremy Brett

#51. I never really knew anything about friendship before I was in the Army. Did you Vince?"
"Not a thing. It's the best thing there is. Just About.

J.D. Salinger

#52. There is a saying about relationships in Washington: If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.

Katharine Graham

#53. 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

#54. Avoidance is never the answer. Yes, life is all about pain and trouble and frustration and anger, but it's also about love and friendship and good days and sunshine. You can't have one without the other. If you avoid pain, you avoid living.

M. Leighton

#55. Taylor Swift is great for a night out as it involves a lot of tequila. With her it's all about good friends and celebrating friendship, it's such a positive environment to be a part of. She's great.

Nick Jonas

#56. I crouch hidden among the boulders, my body broken and bloodied. Below me, someone is about to murder my best friend, the one person who understands me. If I act, I will likely lose my own life. If I don't, I'll lose so much more ...

Rae Carson

#57. Love is not what others feel about you,,,, its what feeling you share with others.

Swavin Joysury

#58. That softness around your eyes, a softness in your face. Almost the way you feel when you're about to start crying. That, to me, is love. It can be romantic love, it can be friendship love, it can be family love, it can be love for a chipmunk. It can be love for anything.

Moby

#59. Zach is like the more I think about it the more I think y ruin a gr8 friendship? I still think tiny's awesome tho.

John Green

#60. If you can't be honest with your friends and colleagues and loved ones, then what is life all about?

Sophie Kinsella

#61. When someone loves you or have good friendship, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.

Abdul'Rauf Hashmi

#62. Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. If I had to give a piece of advice to a young man about a place to live, I think I should say, 'sacrifice almost everything to live where you can be near your friends.

C.S. Lewis

#63. Friendship is like an investment; the best type yields the best profit for you! It's not just about making friends; it's about making right friends for the right reasons!

Israelmore Ayivor

#64. As long as our orientation is toward perfection or success, we will never
learn about unconditional friendship with ourselves, nor will we find
compassion.

Pema Chodron

#65. And that is one of the worst things about this life. As a liar, a pretend person, you cannot really truly ever be someone's friend. My American life, it is lonely. Often, it is very, very lonely.

Jillian Cantor

#66. As a dinner guest I gratefully eat just about anything that's set before me, because graciousness among friends is dearer to me than any other agenda.

Barbara Kingsolver

#67. I thought I knew everything about friendship and family: the happiness, simplicity and joy within them. But there is another side of devotion, a side which Samira understands.

Michael Robotham

#68. Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.

Paul Theroux

#69. Sometimes being a nice person is all about knowing when to be an asshole.

John Cheese

#70. A friend of mine once told me a month is about how long it takes to begin seeing another person as another person instead of a character making a cameo appearance in your life

Katie Heaney

#71. Being shameless in thinking, then talking, about male friendship because it is important. Make room for friendship in your life. Make a federal case out of it.

Stuart Miller

#72. It is absolutely okay with me if you need to keep some secrets. I've been thinking about this and I decided that a best friend is someone who, when they don't understand, they still understand.

Nancy Werlin

#73. A true friend is the one who knows
everything about you and still loves you. Eventually, people will forget the things you said or did, but the feelings
you woke up in them they will never forget!

Danka V.

#74. You can't control who your family is. I know about that. You can only pick good friends and maybe that's a better family.

Ava Richardson

#75. There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.

Alexandre Dumas

#76. I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case.

Warren Christopher

#77. The good thing about being Dr. Frankenstein is that you can always make new friends.

Aaron Allston

#78. The bittersweet about truth is that nothing could be more hurtful, yet nothing could be more helpful.

Mike Norton

#79. Friendship exists outside our modern economy of scarcity ... It's not about apportioning vanishing resources of time and energy. Friendship is a blessed relic of the ancient economy of the gift, and the time freely given to people dear to you actually creates magical abundance.

Victor Hugo

#80. You taught me that this world is not about gay people being accepted by us, but rather us being accepted by you.

Alec John Belle

#81. It is not a demonstration of kindness or friendship to the people we care about to join them in indulging in wrongheaded, negative feelings. We do a better service to ourselves and others by remaining detached and avoiding melodramatic reactions.

Epictetus

#82. I've got some great guy friends. They can start out as crushes. But when you realize something isn't going to happen, you make a choice whether or not the friendship is worth it. And it usually is. Then you can laugh about the fact that you used to have a crush on him or he had one on you.

Courteney Cox

#83. Life is all about the friendship and the love and the music. It sounds silly, but it is. I want to have that experience as much as I can as an adult, not as a kid doing something that people are telling her she has to do. If anyone gets in my way, I'm going to get them out of my way.

Fiona Apple

#84. Family isnt about blood relationships, its about the meaning behind them. I relize now that sharing chromosoms is not the only way to having a family, its about the friendship behind it.

Sarah Dessen

#85. So friendship is all about ignoring?
...

Fake smiles?
...

Lies
...

Promises which get broken?
...

Deyth Banger

#86. Friendship isn't about becoming somebody else perfect person. It is about finding someone who helps you become the best person you can be.

John

#87. I'm calling my book series the 'with God series.' And this next 'with God' book is Friendship with God, which comes out in November. This books challenges us to bring about the end of 'better' on this planet.

Neale Donald Walsch

#88. I'd had a little feeling of destiny. Because, you see, what I mean about affinities is true from friendships down to even the accidental glance at someone on the street-there's always a definite reason somewhere. I think even the poets would agree with me.

Patricia Highsmith

#89. Friendship is a sacred thing and I do not extend the word lightly. I've had long-term romances in my life but few genuine friendships. I am exceedingly picky about who I let in my inner circle and because of that I have a few friends and many acquaintances.

Donna Lynn Hope

#90. That's the thing about friendship, it's a lot rarer than love, because there is nothing in it for any body.

Owen Wilson

#91. When I read 'Stand By Me,' it was like, 'This is a look back at the same time period when I was growing up, and it was about kids, but it really felt like what it was like to have those powerful feelings of friendship at age 12.' That's what got to me.

Rob Reiner

#92. Her Brooklyn accent only comes out when she's angry. This is the best part ... I pick at my pancakes while she tells me, simply, "It's ok to change your mind." About a feeling, a person, a promise of love. I can't stay just to avoid contradicting myself. I don't have to watch him cry.

Lena Dunham

#93. A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#94. Contrary to popular belief, going shopping is really about stopping afterward for cheesecake.

Bonnie Jensen

#95. Jill had three basic statements about life,
1. It is your life, usually with some added social commentary.
2. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things.
3. No one ever said that life was fair.

Nicholas Sparks

#96. To be a MVF (Most Valuable Friend), you need to tell your friends the pure truth about themselves. However, how you tell them the truth is the difference between being a villain or a hero.

Ben Tolosa

#97. The best part about having true friends is that you can go months without seeing them and they'll still be there for you and act as if you'd never left!

Ariana Grande

#98. Life is about getting and sharing. The more you share, the more you get ... and the more you get, the more your sharing responsibility multiplies.

Israelmore Ayivor

#99. No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship.

Alistair Cooke

#100. Love in any relationship, family or an intimate friendship, is only about putting the other person's needs ahead of your own, and that, my friend, is just as simple and as complex as you make it.

Twinkle Khanna