16 Quotes About The Benefits of Friendship

By Sicebise Msengana

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Life without friends is devoid of any happiness, warmth and comfort. The benefits of having people to lean on during tough times are many. Friendships teaches you more about yourself, about love
and about life in general. Human beings are social creatures and it could be argued that life without any social interaction is not anormal, but an abnormal life.


Therefore, friendships provide the security and comfort every human being longs for.

Here are some of the most popular quotes about the benefits of having friends in your life:


1. A friend will strengthen you with her prayers, bless you with her love and encourage you with her hope. -Barbara Johnson

2. Friends are angels who lift us to our feet, when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly. -unknown author

3. A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad. -unknown author

4. 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 the friend who cares.  -Henri Neuwen

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

6. Friendship consists of forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives. - Unknown author

7. May the hinges of friendship never grow rusty. -Unknown author

8. Friendship is a rainbow between two hearts. -Unknown author

9.  Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. -Unknown author

10.  A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. -Unknown author

11. A true friend knows your weaknesses, but shows you your strengths; feels your fears, but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties ,but frees your spirit; recognises your disabilities, but emphasises your possibilities. - William Arthur Ward

12. A true friend never gets in the way unless you happen to be going down.  -Arnold Glasow

13. Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy,  active; or the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.  -William Thackeray

14. There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.  -Samuel Johnson

15.  Oil and perfumes rejoice the heart.  So does the sweetness of a friends counsel that comes from the heart. -Unknown author

16. Some of the most rewarding and beautiful moments of friendship happen in the unforseen open spaces between planned activities. It is important that you allow these spaces exist. -Unknown author