Friends Forever Quotes

• Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Friendship, Laughter, Honesty

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• Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Friendship, Forgiveness, Two Friends

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• Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

  Mencius

  Best Friend, Friendship, True Friend

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• A friend is a friend forever
  And a good one will never leave, never

  Laura Marling

  Forever

  Song: Hope in the Air, Album: I Speak Because I Can, 2010

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• Friends are friends forever. If the Lord's the Lord of them, a friend will not say never 'cause the welcome will not end. Although it's hard to let you go, in the Father's hands we know, a lifetime's not too long to live as friends.

  Michael W. Smith

  Graduation, Father, Hands

  FaceBook post by Michael W. Smith from Oct 06, 2015

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• It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Best Friend, Friendship, Positive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.195, Harvard University Press

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• We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.

  A. A. Milne

  Best Friend, Friendship, Bff

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• Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Friendship, Best Friend, Real

  "Voice of the Maghreb". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 5, 2006.

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• When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

  Henri Nouwen

  Life, Motivational, Friendship

  "Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life". Book by Henri Nouwen, 1974.

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• Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.

  Jacques Delille

  Life, Best Friend, Family

  "Pitié" by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus as reported in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1895.

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• Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.

  Henri Nouwen

  Friendship, Pain, True Friend

  Henri J.M. Nouwen (2017). “You Are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Convergent Books

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• The only true test of friendship is the time your friend spends on you.

  John Marsden

  Friendship, Inspiring Love, Tests

  John Marsden (2010). “Circle of Flight: The Ellie Chronicles 3: The Ellie Chronicles”, p.182, Pan Australia

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• I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

  Oscar Wilde

  Friendship, Best Friend, Real Friends

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• Things don't matter, people do

  Rosie Thomas

  People, Matter

  Rosie Thomas (2016). “Iris and Ruby: A Novel”, p.27, The Overlook Press

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• I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me and remind them of all the promise I see in them.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Promise, Quality, Finest

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.50, Conari Press

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

  Sophie Kinsella

  Honest, Loved Ones, What Is Life

  Sophie Kinsella (2004). “Can You Keep a Secret?”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• Times change, people change, thoughts about good and evil change, about true and false. But what always remains fast and steady is the affection that your friends feel for you, those who always have your best interest at heart.

  Margot Frank

  Friendship, Change, Heart

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• The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Falling In Love, Sight, Growth

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2016). “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, p.3, Sarah Orne Jewett

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• A true friend is a gift from God. Since God doesn't exist, guess what? Neither do true friends.

  Scott Dikkers

  Atheist, True Friend, Atheism

  Scott Dikkers (2009). “You Are Worthless: Depressing Nuggets of Wisdom Sure to Ruin Your Day”, p.69, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.

  Bill Watterson

  Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend

  "The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1992.

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• Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh?" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand. "I just wanted to be sure of you.

  A. A. Milne

  Friendship, Best Friend, Relationship

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  Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Friendship, Best Friend, Birthday

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• A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend

  "Gabriel Garcia Marquez: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 18, 2014.

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• The only way to have a friend is to be one.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Friendship, True Friend

  Essays "Friendship" (1841)

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• That was the thing about best friends. Like sisters and mothers, they could piss you off and make you cry and break your heart, but in the end, when the chips were down, they were there, making you laugh even in your darkest hours.

  Kristin Hannah

  Best Friend, Friends, Mother

  Kristin Hannah (2008). “Firefly Lane”, p.273, Macmillan

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