Friendship Quotes

This ends now. We’re breaking bread.” The waiter gets to us before Thommo’s had time to peruse.“Do you have bread?”“We have croissants.”Thommo blinks. “We’re breaking croissant.”“One croissant?” the waiter asks.“With three plates.”“They’re very small.” He mimes the croissant’s size.“Then bring small plates,” Thommo says.

~ Will Kostakis

Although previous studies had suggested that friendship--male and female--could be a powerful antidote to stress, more recent research indicates that broken promises, dashed expectations, and other side effects of friendship gone wrong can actually raise the level of stress in our lives, often to disastrous effect.

~ Susan Shapiro Barash

A good friend is a healing friend.

~ A.d. Posey

Women instinctually know how to nourish each other, and just being with each other is restorative

~ Tanja Taaljard

It’s because our friendships – female friendships are just a hop to our sisterhood, and sisterhood can be a very powerful force, to give the world … the things that humans desperately need

~ Tanja Taaljard

Men know that most women want to have an emotional connection with someone before they sleep with them. Men know that a lot of women think it's romantic to be friends first, and then the friendship blossoms into a relationship. Men know that they have to jump through all these hoops first, before they can get laid. And that's really all romance and courtship is to a man: hoops he has to jump through to get laid.

~ Oliver Markus

There are only 24 hours in a day. The average man has to sleep about 8 hours. And work for 8 hours. That leaves 8 hours to run some errands, drive to and from work, eat, and have some spare time. And in that little bit of spare time, a man has to figure out how to get the one thing he likes more than anything else: sex.So when a man has to choose whether or not he will hang out with a female and spend any time, money or attention on her, the question of whether the resources he spent will result in sex plays a very big factor. If your male friend chooses to spend his time and money on you, it's because he thinks there is a chance it might pay off in sex at some point. If he hangs out with you instead of with some other female, it's because he thinks you are his best bet to getting sex.The more likely there will be sex, the more willing he is to spend his little bit of free time with you. If he thinks his chances of having sex are higher with a different female, he will spent more time, money and attention on her. That's just common sense, and using his limited resources wisely.

~ Oliver Markus

Being friends is different from being lovers. It’s a sea change.

~ Barbara Delinsky

After all relationships had sell-by dates. Sometimes, the ones with the most passion were the ones to burn out faster. Others had a sweet and long-winding coil which burned with slow amicability. At times, it was true, people rekindled a dying ember with a new flame. But they hardly ever noticed the rekindling had come after some time of estrangement - whether physical or emotional. Because people needed newness to make a thing last indefinitely. To make it really last. And because Jan didn't like letting people go, she knew to look for the signs of love's waning. So she could tell how to ease it down slowly into its grave and keep her lovers as friends. Because she really believed people were meant to cross paths. People were meant to stay in your life. There was a reason for all encounters. And relationships had to be cosseted, no matter their shelf life. But they had to be allowed to change shape and form. It had to be given space to grow into something different.

~ Adelheid Manefeldt

She's it. She's my everything. She's the standard by which I'll judge beauty for the rest of my life. I'll measure every touch to her breath on my skin. Every voice to her voice. Every mind to her mind. My measure of perfection. The name carved into me. If I could, I would lie with her under these stars until my heart burst.

~ Jeff Zentner

Every new friend is a fresh flower with endless beauty, love, and joy.

~ Debasish Mridha

There will be people who admire your strength and courage. But, there will also be those willing to knock everything you say and do. They think it goes unnoticed, but you have excellent peripheral vision. The trick is to never let them get the best of you. Don't become vulnerable to their deceptive nature. You were born to succeed.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Loving yourself is of vital importance. Because there is no way you'll love another soul if you fail to have self love. Embrace your beautiful spirit and shine light for those who may be living in the dark. You are human and your heart is designed to love and live. You can not be open to love if you're not loving yourself.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

In every aspect of life, be true to who you are. There is no need to communicate subliminally. If you believe in your words or actions, then express yourself completely. Live, Laugh, & Love without regrets.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

The beauty of friendship is loyalty.

~ Debasish Mridha M.d.

Together, we form a necessary paradox; not a senseless contradiction.

~ Criss Jami

Reaffirm your love for one another and let grow.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We are brothers and sisters. We are a sacred family.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Married couples must pray and study the Bible daily.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Enlightenment is making friendship with the whole existence.

~ Amit Ray

There are twenty one mystical dimensions of consciousness. Enlightenment is abiding in the highest three dimensions of consciousness.

~ Amit Ray

He had wished me well in finding my own fate to follow, and I never doubted his sincerity. But it had taken me years to accept that his absence in my life was a deliberate finality, an act he had chosen, a thing completed even as some part of my soul still dangled, waiting for his return. That, I think, is the shock of any relationship ending. It is realizing that what is still an ongoing relationship to someone is, for the other person, something finished and done with.

~ Robin Hobb

Friends are medicine for a wounded heart and vitamins for a hopeful soul.

~ Steve Maraboli

Love ignites the spark of divinity in every soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Be happy with your soul mate.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You soul is only satisfy with your soul-spirit, soul mate.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I love you not because you're beautiful, but its through You that I discover more of myself!

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

Love while light radiate from your soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Love is divinity within us.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Love of the soul is happiness to the spirit.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you truly love someone, he or she will inevitably love you back. If you find yourself in an emotional one way street, walk away! Trust that it’s not love.

~ Stefan Emunds

To leaders, one trusted friend is better than ten well known betrayers

~ Israelmore Ayivor

My dear Gorgas,Instead of being simply satisfied to make friends and draw your pay, it is worth doing your duty, to the best of your ability, for duty’s sake; and in doing this, while the indolent sleep, you may accomplish something that will be of real value to humanity. Your good friend, ReedDr. Walter Reed encouraging Dr. William Gorgas who went on to make history eradicating Yellow Fever in Havana, 1902 and Panama, 1906, liberating the entire North American continent from centuries of Yellow Fever epidemics.

~ William Crawford Gorgas

Lincoln was a master of small group theatrics.

~ Richard Brookhiser

Friends can speed up your steps or slow down your pace. Leaders choose friends wisely, they are aware of the consequences.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Respect is not an obligation nor a favour, it takes a bigger person to give or show some whether it is returned or not.

~ Unarine Ramaru

Your relationships will either empower you to overcome obstacles, or put fears in you so you can run away from them.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

If you want to be a leader, don't stand on the toes of dwarfs. Mount the shoulders of giants and you will see further.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Teamwork is the best ever investment. If I make 3 and you make 5, together we will not make 8. We will make 15. Leaders build active teams.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Good… Bad? I’m not here to judge where you’re at or where you’ve been. I’m simply here to encourage you in where you would like to go. You have the map; I’ll shine the light on it so you can better read it. And eventually, the sun will rise again in your life and you’ll no longer need my light to assist you.

~ Alaric Hutchinson