Quotes on “friends”

If you surround yourself with the good and righteous, they can only raise you up. If you surround yourself with the others, they will drag you down into the doldrums of mediocrity, and they will keep you there, but only as long as you permit it.

Even seasonal situations can bring with them lessons that last a lifetime. If the love doesn’t last, it prepares you for the one that will.

Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love.

I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.

Be silent and safe — silence never betrays you; Be true to your word and your work and your friend; Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you,Nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.

I despise the rituals of fake friendship. I wish we could just claw each other's eyes out and call it a day; instead we put on huge radiant smiles and spout compliments until our teeth hurt from the saccharine sweetness of it all.

Friends are the family you choose.

Would you rather live one perfect day over and over or live your life with no perfect days but just decent ones?

I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing.

Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back.

I want to be the best version of myself for anyone who is going to someday walk into my life and need someone to love them beyond reason.

I can do this… I can start over. I can save my own life and I’m never going to be alone as long as I have stars to wish on and people to still love.

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'.

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.