Friendships Quotes

There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.

~ Shannon L. Alder

When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?

~ Shannon L. Alder

If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person's soul.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you.

~ Shannon L. Alder

True love is not a hide and seek game: in true love, both lovers seek each other.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Friends ask you questions, enemies question you.

~ Criss Jami

A true friend doesn't have guts, they beat you up and later plead with you to beat them back.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

When someone you love makes compassion, kindness, forgiveness, respect and God an option, you can be sure they have made you an option, as well.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Friendship happens when the distance between the hearts tends to zero.

~ Amit Ray

Always remember that you were once alone, and the crowd you see in your life today are just as unecessary as when you were alone.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Don't show a friend your gift, or your bag of money if you still want to maintain your relationship, but if nay, go on, and all you'll see is hate and jealousy, and you'll fight with him in the street like a dog and all you'll feel is regret.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Let's still be friends (things that are never true in a break up, but you have to say).

~ Lauren Leto

One spirit remained unaware of his presence, staring at Miss Parker with such longing that he reluctantly decided to let it stay. The spirit, a hollow-eyed girl with ringlets and clothing from long past, reached toward Percy, wishing to touch her. Alexi understood. When left to her own devices, Miss Parker was neither shy nor awkward; she was radiant.

~ Leanna Renee Hieber

Reputation is what men and women think of us, character is how we let them really know us.

~ Carl R White

I find that love is confusing, lust is always definitive.

~ Carl R White

Your heart’s strength is measured by how hard it holds on. Your self worth and faith is measured by finally letting go. However, your peace is measured by how long you don’t look back.

~ Shannon L. Alder

It’s amazing to consider just how many people smile at the thought of you.

~ Scott Stabile

Of course it hurt that we could never love each other in a physical way. We would have been far more happy if we had. But that was like the tides, the change of seasons--something immutable, an immovable destiny we could never alter. No matter how cleverly we might shelter it, our delicate friendship wasn't going to last forever. We were bound to reach a dead end. That was painfully clear.

~ Haruki Murakami

Don't let a thief into your house three times. The first time was enough. The second time was a chance. The third time means you're stupid.

~ C. Joybell C.

People will walk in and walk out of your life, but the one whose footstep made a long lasting impression is the one you should never allow to walk out.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

We need to bridge our sense of loneliness and disconnection with a sense of community and continuity even if we must manufacture it from our time on the Web and our use of calling cards to connect long distance. We must “log on” somewhere, and if it is only in cyberspace, that is still far better than nowhere at all. (264)

~ Julia Cameron

It’s the people we hardly know, and not our closest friends, who will improve our lives most dramatically

~ Meg Jay

Did you know that wherever you find fool's gold, real gold exists somewhere nearby? This also goes for relationships and friendships. Real gold is found in the heart. For every piece of fake gold that you discard, remember that true gold isn't too far.

~ Suzy Kassem

Somewhere between love and hate lies confusion, misunderstanding and desperate hope.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Every relationship that has hit a crossroads has asked, “What is it that you want from me?

~ Shannon L. Alder

I hold a strict policy of automatic grudges against people everyone likes.

~ Kate Hattemer

Delusions are hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding insane people living in a backwards world.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Authentic love is deciding to live on a one-way street where all the arrows point down the street and not a single one of them point back up to where I’m standing.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

After college, I started working in the gallery and found myself surrounded by a whole new set of people who had not yet grown accustomed to my antisocial tendencies, who had not yet learned to expect me to say no, and stopped asking. I was invited to go drinking and dancing again, and so, I tried.

~ Sara Baume

Ever since [that day], a small uncertainty had buzzed between us.It was a sense of chemistry that had been a little elusive, a little imprecise, until now.

~ Amor Towles

Jealousy is when their reflection in the mirror that is your progress, is attacked rather than appreciated, begrudged rather than understood.

~ Sam Owen

The interesting thing about text is that, as a medium, it separates you from the person you are speaking with, so you can act differently from how you would in person or even on the phone.

~ Aziz Ansari

People being tough with you doesn't mean they're villains.

~ Anna Kendrick

people need me. I fillthem. if they can't see mefor awhile the get desperate, they getsick.but if I see them too oftenI get sick. it's hard to feedwithout getting fed.

~ Charles Bukowski

Real relationships are the product of time spent, which is why so many of us have so few of them.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Vulnerability creates unimaginable space to build each other up, as much as it creates ample room to tear each other down.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Betrayal is advancing myself at the expense of the one who I committed myself to advance.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I cannot live without you. For to attempt to do so would be to rob both of us of each other, and that is thievery of the greatest sort.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

What rubs off on me is hard to rub off. So, I’d better figure out what I rubbing up against.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough