Easy Friendship Quotes:

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

- Walter Winchell

source: Walter Winchell (1975). “Winchell exclusive: "things that happened to me--and me to them”

topic: Friendship, Real, World, Making Friends, New Friendship

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend, Bff, Life Love And Friendship

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

- Henri Nouwen

topic: Pain, Being Alone, Hands, Bff, Female Friends

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

- George Eliot

topic: Best Friend, Feelings, Comfort, Bff, Female Friends

Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.

- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

source: A Life for a Life ch. 16 (1859)

topic: Letting Go, Kindness, Blow, Making Friends, Bff

Making it look easy is the hardest thing in the world to do.

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

topic: Looks, World, Easy, Inspirational Friendship, Musicianship

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means 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.

- Henri Nouwen

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

topic: Love, Friendship, Pain, Bff, Female Friends

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

- Aristotle

topic: Friendship, Funny Best Friend, Real Friends, New Friendship, Eternal Friendship

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Adventure, New Friendship, Meaning Of Friendship

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

- Toni Morrison

topic: Friendship, Real Friends, Men, Bff, Good Friendship

Wherever it is you may be, it is your friends who make your world.

- Chris Bradford

topic: Love, Friendship, World, Inspirational Friendship, Easy Friendship

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

- Donna Roberts

topic: Friendship, Song, Heart, Songs And Friendship, Losing Friends

It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?

- A. A. Milne

topic: Friendship, Teacher, Fun, Inspiring Friends, Long Friendship

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

- Richard Bach

topic: Life, Friendship, Real Friends, Thousand Years, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer.

- Ed Cunningham

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspiring Friends, People In Your Life

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

- Len Wein

source: "1001 Affirmations" - by Herbert P. Windschitl - Poetry, 2003.

topic: Friendship, Best Friend, Patience, Inspirational Friendship, Lasting Friendship

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

- Francesco Guicciardini

source: Francesco Guicciardini (1890). “Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini”

topic: Friendship, Real Friends, Chance, Making Friends, New Friendship

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Friendship, True Love, Real Friends, Making Friends, New Friendship

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

topic: Friendship, Holiday, Real Friends, Songs And Friendship, Life Love And Friendship

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

- Marcel Proust

source: Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

topic: Friendship, Happiness, Happy, Making Friends, Bff

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

- Anais Nin

topic: Love, Inspirational, Friendship, New Friendship, Special Friendship

It is your friends who make your world.

- William James

topic: Meaningful, World, Meaningful Life, Easy Friendship, True Friend Is

The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?

- Eugene Kennedy

source: "The Promise of Friendship". Book by Kathy Wagoner, 2002.

topic: Friendship, Real, Simple, Inspiring Friends, Lasting Friendship

Friendship is not something you can learn in college or some learning institution, no one knows how to become friends you just become but if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship you haven't learned anything

- Muhammad Ali

topic: Friendship, College, Institutions, Meaning Of Friendship, Loyal Friend

But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one's deepest as well as one's most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely. Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.

- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

source: A Life for a Life ch. 16 (1859)

topic: Friendship, Kindness, Blessing, Female Friends, Inspirational Relationship

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

- Helen Keller

topic: Friendship, Loneliness, Real Friends, Making Friends, Bff

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

- Dag Hammarskjold

topic: Friendship, Loneliness, Being Alone, Friend In Need, Easy Friendship

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

- Albert Camus

topic: Love, Friendship, Happy, Bff, Songs And Friendship

The best mirror is an old friend.

- George Herbert

source: George Herbert, Joseph Hall (1855). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: And The Satires and Psalms of Bishop Hall”, p.303

topic: Mirrors, Old Friends, Inspirational Friendship, Lasting Friendship, Loyal Friend

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

- Bernard Meltzer

topic: Friendship, Thank You, True Friend, Impossible To Forget, Making Friends

A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

- Donna Roberts

topic: Friendship, Song, Memories, Bff, Songs And Friendship

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

- Leo Buscaglia

topic: Inspirational, Best Friend, Friendship, Bff, Songs And Friendship

Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Friendship, Best Friend, Family, New Friendship, My Friendship

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

- George Eliot

topic: Love, Friendship, Relationship, Female Friends, Inspirational Relationship

The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Expression, Typical, Would Be, Importunate, Making Friends

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Wise, World Religions, One Friend

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Life, Friendship, Marriage, Distance Friendship, Easy Friendship

Sisters are the true friends who ask how you are, and then wait to hear the answer.

- Jill Shalvis

source: Jill Shalvis (2015). “Lucky Harbor Collection 1: Simply Irresistible, The Sweetest Thing, Head Over Heels”, p.162, Hachette UK

topic: Life, Motivational, True Friend, Easy Friendship, True Friendship

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

- Katherine Mansfield

source: Katherine Mansfield (1987). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume II: 1918-September 1919”, OUP Oxford

topic: Love, Friendship, Real Friends, One Friend, Being A Good Friend

A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

- George Eliot

topic: Friendship, Best Friend, Kindness, Making Friends, Easy Friendship