“Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into 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.
“A friend is, as it were, a second self.”
“Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.”
“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.”
“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.”
“Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never.”
“But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.”
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
“If you have one true friend you have more than your share.”
“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.”
“We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.”
“The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.”
“Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.”
“I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.”
“When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.”
“Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.”
“I hope to continue my friendship with France and its filmmakers for many years to come.”