Top 100 Quotes About Real Friendship
#1. 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
#2. I think that real friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds.
Stephen King
#3. In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.
Maria Edgeworth
#4. It's funny because you always think a real friendship can weather any storm, but human relationships can be as flimsy as paper boats in a tsunami."
~ page 97
Steven Parlato
#5. Real friendship is when people show their understanding and support towards your dreams and visions. When they are willing to stand by you through thick and thin when you start to take practical steps towards your dreams.
Euginia Herlihy
#6. But ... If you hide the truth to keep Mika from suffering, the situation will never change, will it? I think real friendship would be to let him face his own suffering, and help him conquer it. Isn't that when he really needs you most?
Kaori Yuki
#7. Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.
Euripides
#8. A real friendship should not fade as time passes, and should not weaken because of space separation.
John Newton
#9. I do feel free, I have patched things up with my ex-husband to the degree of this real friendship. We spend a lot of time together as a family with our son, no way will we be man and wife again.
Beccy Cole
#10. 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
#11. A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.
Jaron Lanier
#12. An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship. It starts in the right manner.
Oscar Wilde
#13. You don't have to write to me if you don't feel like it. There's no real friendship without absolute freedom.
George Sand
#14. A real friendship is like a marriage: for richer and poorer, for better and for worse. If the moment of truth comes, and you can't bear to make a sacrifice, what kind of friend are you?
Sean Stewart
#15. Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
#16. Its imposible to have real friendship when no one feels like they can accept help or even talk about themselves.
Veronica Roth
#17. Montalbano felt moved. This was real friendship, Sicilian friendship, the kind based on intuition, on what was left unsaid. With a true friend, one never needs to ask, because the other understands on his own accordingly.
Andrea Camilleri
#18. Maybe that's what real friendship is
getting so used to people that you need to be annoyed by them.
Libba Bray
#19. Oh, you will, some day, just as I'll hurt you too. That makes part of this
whole thing called being human, but to excel it and sincerely forgive the other
faults ... that is what makes a real friendship, what strengthens it.
Leia Kiuski
#20. What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
Anais Nin
#21. Real friendship, love, respect, and trust are all gained without a single dollar.
Phillipe Nover
#23. Unreal friendship may turn to real
But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
T. S. Eliot
#24. There's a thing in poetry called the caesura a pause between words, a silence. I thought: that's what real friendship is, too. Someone you can be quiet with. Someone who understands your mistakes and forgives you.
Margo Rabb
#25. Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition.
John O'Donohue
#26. Maybe the point of real friendship isn't that you have to repay kindness, but whatever. At least I should try. As
Holly Black
#27. The evil never attains to any real friendship, either with good or evil.
Plato
#29. Again. Was it better to trust or better to be wary? Could you have a real friendship if some part of you was always expecting betrayal?
Hanya Yanagihara
#30. In order to achieve peace, tranquility, and real friendship, we must minimize anger and cultivate kindness and a warm heart.
Dalai Lama XIV
#31. Acceptance is the universal currency of real friendship ... It does not warp or shape or wrench a person to be anything other than what they are.
Joan D. Chittister
#32. Agreement in likes and dislikes- this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship.
Catiline
#34. The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break.
George Bancroft
#35. It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#36. Friendship by its very nature consists in loving, rather than in being loved.
Henry Clay Trumbull
#37. You Too? I thought I was the only one.
C.S. Lewis
#38. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em.
Shel Silverstein
#39. If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not
As to thy friends; for when did friendship take
A breed for barren metal of his friend?
William Shakespeare
#40. Love isn't in body to body contact nor is it in the emotions oozed through tears and weeps. Real love lies in soul to soul connection that you can feel through spiritual practices. Love is boundless and selflessness often we mistake with greedy contentment. Love is give and sacrifice
Sadashivan Nair
#42. 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
#43. Because we grow up, Filip,' Tedros exhaled. 'When you're young, you think your best friend is everything. But once you find real love... it changes. Your friendship can never be the same after that. Because no matter how much you try to keep both, your loyalty can only lie with one.
Soman Chainani
#44. I don't know how to be anything but pretend," I replied, and it ached in me how true that really was. "But if I could be real, I'd be real for you.
R. J. Anderson
#45. Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were the easiest for his feet.
John Selden
#46. Remember, a friend does not need you to impress him. A friend loves you because you are true to yourself, not because you agree with him. Beware of grand gestures; the real mettle of friendship is forged in life's daily workings.
Ethan Hawke
#47. I decided that not talking is like a litmus test for a real friend. You can just sit there and be. Not always be filling up the air with words
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#48. No friendship has done its work until it reaches the supremest satisfaction of spiritual communion.
Hugh Black
#49. We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#50. True friends never turn you away when all you need is someone to talk to. Ever. It's not the only thing that helps, but it's the only thing that works. Real friends never walk away, letting you slip deeper into the pit of despair.
Northern Adams
#51. I don't think life offers any greater experience than the joyful sense of recognition when one finds in a new acquaintance a real friend, or when an old relationship deepens into friendship, or when one finds an old friendship intact despite the passage of years and many absences.
Abigail McCarthy
#52. A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
Arthur Brisbane
#53. Everyone keeps saying i've changed nah i've jus separated was real and was fake
Blanco Vandam
#54. Your imaginary friend isn't the problem, Amanda. The problem is that you don't seem to have any real friends.
Rebecca McNutt
#55. The real frienship is like fluorescence, it shines better when everything has darken.
Rabindranath Tagore
#56. Ten minutes with a genuine friend is better than years spent with anyone less.
Crystal Woods
#57. 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
#58. There's nothing sweeter than a real friend:
Not only is he prompt to lend
An angler delicate, he fishes
The very deepest of your wishes,
And spares your modesty the task
His friendly aid to ask.
A dream, a shadow, wakes his fear,
When pointing at the object dear.
Jean De La Fontaine
#60. I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime; honours shower upon me from every side; artists pay me compliments on my work; there are many people to whom my position must seem enviable ... . But I don't seem to have a single real friend!
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#61. Lord! when you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.
Christopher Morley
#62. But there's more than just solving the how-to problems. I've often said that if we're going to have a real rural renaissance, I'd just take the solving of the how-to problems for granted. The first thing I'd provide would be festivals.
Ralph Borsodi
#63. If your heart was as big as your mouth you'd be real.
DMX
#64. I ignore people who need me and latch on to people who don't. I dive into every other world except my own just because I want something more glamorous than my real life. I do destructive shit so a stupid hypocritical fish will like me.
I fall for fish instead of girls.
Hannah Moskowitz
#65. When there's a history between people, it makes for some serious complications - even in something seemingly as simple as friendship. There is no real starting over. There's only trying to minimize the importance of things in the past. And some events are just too life altering to trivialize.
Megan Thomason
#66. A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you.
Jodi Picoult
#67. We should wipe two words from our vocabulary: gratitude and charity. In real life, help is given out of friendship, or it is not valued; it is received from the hand of friendship, or it is resented.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#68. True friends are not mirrors where we can always see ourselves reflected in a positive light.
Shannon L. Alder
#69. He had never done it before, and so he had no real understanding of how slow, and sad, and difficult it was to end a friendship.
Hanya Yanagihara
#71. Very few people know the real meaning of friendship. More often than not, there is too much emphasis on sentiment, and too little on action. Metta is something that must be lived.
Sangharakshita
#72. Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.
Thomas F. Wilson
#73. I want to know what it is to build the foundation of the friendship for real, to have my best friend and not because we're just intimate, but because we're mentally intimate. So I'm waiting for that person to come into my life.
LisaRaye McCoy-Misick
#74. It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#75. What I know for sure is that if you can survive 11 days in cramped quarters with a friend and come out laughing, your friendship is the real deal. I know ours is.
Oprah Winfrey
#76. 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
#77. 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. The friendship is real, not merely imagined. We're meant to experience this life, your life, together, in a dialogue, sharing the journey. You get to share in our wisdom and learn to love with our love,
William Paul Young
#81. He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#82. If you are willing to jump in front of a car to save a friend, then that friendship is real.
Arina Tanemura
#83. French Yemeni relations are strong and good, they are relations depending on friendship and cooperation; my relationship with the president Chiraq are old and real.
Ali Abdullah Saleh
#84. Real Friends' are someone who are right next to you when you got in emergency, not in only parties.
Hiroko Sakai
#85. You hear so many people talk about finding their soul mates only in relation to who they marry, but I think that, as women, our real soul mates are often found when we recognize some version of ourselves in someone else.
Melanie Shankle
#86. Real friends were the kind where you pick up where you'd left off, whether it be a week since you'd seen each other or two years.
Jojo Moyes
#87. What do we ask of friendship except to be taken for what we pretend to be - and without having to pretend.
Robert Breault
#90. Even when I'm alone I have real good company - dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I like to be alone now and then, just to think over things and taste them. But I love friendships - and nice, jolly little times with people.
L.M. Montgomery
#92. Friends are not a number. You can't collect connections. You can't just go out one day and be like, "Hey, I need some friends!" *goes shopping, scours social media*
Connor Franta
#93. Despite I may be surrounded by many friends, there is not one that interests me as much as you do
Auliq Ice
#94. Those who can't give friendship will rarely receive it and never hold it.
Dagobert D. Runes
#95. How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.
William Rotsler
#96. Only real true friends will tell you when your face is dirty,
Others will either pamper, avoid or laugh at you certainly.
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Munindra Misra
#97. True friendship is self-love at second hand; where, as in a flattering mirror we may see our virtues magnified and our errors softened, and where we may fancy our opinion of ourselves confirmed by an impartial and faithful witness.
William Hazlitt
#98. I Want you to know one thing, I will always be true to you, and I will always say to you, I love you.
Auliq Ice
#99. In all holiest and most unselfish love, friendship is the purest element of the affection. No love in any relation of life can be at its best if the element of friendship be lacking. And no love can transcend, in its possibilities of noble and ennobling exaltation, a love that is pure friendship.
Henry Clay Trumbull
#100. You can't even communicate in English. Real life is not a series of levels.
Sophie Kinsella
