The Book of Badass Quotes

Friendship

Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ." ~C.S. Lewis

"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

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."~
Elbert Hubbard
"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."~Mark Twain

"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you."~A.A Milne

"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean 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. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares."~
Henri J.M. Nouwen, Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life

"You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together."~
Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook (The Notebook, #1)

"I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff."
Jon KatzI

"Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."~
Muhammad Ali
"Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies."~
Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy (Vampire Academy, #1)

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."~
Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934