“Relatives share the same bloodline, but FAMILY shares your successes, pains, ambitions, celebrations, failures, values, love and so much more. I realize that many friends have become Family and some relatives just are not. When I thought I needed "Blood" to survive, I realized that what I really needed was "Family"
" Sweet words are easy to say, nice things are easy to buy but good people are difficult to find "
They are not your friends until they have defended you in your absence.
A best friend isn't just someone who’s always there for you. It’s someone who understands you a bit more than you understand yourself.
A real friend knows when to listen, when to stop listening, when to talk, when to stop talking, when to pour wine, when to stop pouring wine, and hand over the bottle.
A strong friendship doesn't need daily conversation and doesn't always need togetherness. As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends will never part.
Selfish friends are fair-weather friends who turn up only when they need help. Selfish friends generally withdraw support when you are the most weak and vulnerable. One needs friends to share one's joys and sorrows with.
Selfish friends desert you in your testing times when you are facing adversities and will surround and keep hovering around you in your prosperous times. One should stay away from such people and keep them at arm's length.
True friendship isn't about being there when it's convenient; it is about being there when it's not.
A friend is a real reflection of your character and personality. Friends can also be a great source of inspiration and can take you to great levels. It is very hard to explain friendship as it happens between two people who have the same wavelength of mind and are inseparable. Such friends come once in a while and become an asset in your life
Having friends that inspire us to rise to higher and greater levels is an awesome gift. Surround yourself with people that inspire you to do better and inspire your friends as well. It is a profound truth that the people we spend time with shape the path that we travel.
“Friends are the family you choose.”
~ Jess C. Scott
"What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who showed up, who stayed in there, regardless. It wasn't just about blood relations or shared chromosomes, but something wider, bigger."
~Sarah Dessen (Lock and Key)
“This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them.
Two kinds of people who shape me the most: those who support me and those who betray me. Thanks for both.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can be great.
" He who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure ".
Never explain yourself. Your friends don’t need it and your enemies won't believe it.
" TRUE FRIENDS are the people who walk into your life, and no matter what happens..... they never leave.
"Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success."
Friends are the best person whom you can share your thoughts, feelings, your success, failures, secrets, ambitions in life, fears, hopes and everything. A friend is the best person who can safeguard your deepest secret and yet will not misjudge you or disown you. This is the greatest asset which gives the courage to share all your feelings.
Learn how to carry a friendship greatly, whether or not it is returned. Why should one regret if the receiver is not equally generous? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion. If he is unequal, he will presently pass away; but thou art enlarged by thy own shining.
“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
A friend is someone who can see the truth and pain in you even when you are fooling everyone else.
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
Fake friends are no different than shadows, they stick around during your brightest moments, but disappear during your darkest hours.
True friendship is when two friends can walk in opposite directions, yet remain side by side.
" True friends cry when you leave. Fake friends leave when you cry. ".
"Everyone is a friend, until they prove otherwise."
Fake Friends: Never ask for food. Real Friends: Is the reason you have no food. Fake Friends: Borrow your stuff for a few days then give it back Real Friends: Keep your stuff so long they forget it’s yours Fake Friends: Know a few things about you Real Friends: Could write a book about you with direct quotes from you Fake Friends: Would knock on your front door Real Friends: Walk right in and say “I’M HOME!” Fake Friends: Are for a while Real Friends: Are for life Fake Friends: Will talk bad to the person who talks bad about you. Real Friends: Will knock the person out that talked bad about you. Fake Friends: Would ignore this Real Friends: Will send this to all their real friends and hope to get it back!