“However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.”
Good friends are hard to find and worth holding onto. These quotes celebrate the people who show up, tell you the truth, and stick around when things get difficult — the chosen family that makes life richer.
“Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.”
“However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.”
“If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.”
“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”
“Love is a friendship set to music.”
“I hope to continue my friendship with France and its filmmakers for many years to come.”
“Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.”
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
“My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way.”
“A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.”
“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.”
“The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.”
“Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.”
“When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.”
“Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.”
“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”