Make friends who force you to level up.

Everyone needs friends. There isnt a single person in life anywhere, no matter what they say that doesnt need friends. Humans need human contact to be able to be happy and live normally. Even if youre an introvert or dont like physical contact or whatever, everyone still needs friends and people there to support you and talk you through your hard times. Friends are there to love you and support you protect you and help you with your struggles. Friends are there in your life to have your back and defend you no matter what. They are there to be loyal to you and never turn against you or leave you behind.

Friends are people that are hard to come by believing it or not. They are something that you have to be the type of person that you want to attract to be able to make the best friendships for yourself. It is interesting to see how everyone works differently.

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I have had a lot of different experiences with friendships. They are not always easy, and they do not always last. It is sad when you find yourself in a friendship where you are the person who is giving more and feeling drained and like your friend doesnt care as much and isnt willing to do as much work to keep it afloat. It is hard. Sometimes you have to be the one to admit when a friendship isnt working out. Real friends are there for you and are willing to make sacrifices to make sure that things are working out and getting better.

Friends are something that everyone needs. We all need someone who is on our side and will love us unconditionally in a platonic way. Romances are for different connections and relationship types. Its great having people in your life who are consistent and will be there for you no matter. Make sure you find those who are loyal.

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

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If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you. Winnie the Pooh

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. Ernest Hemingway

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, What! You too? I thought I was the only one. C.S. Lewis

True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable. David Tyson

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. Washington Irving

Theres not a word yet for old friends whove just met. Jim Henson

A single rose can be my gardena single friend, my world. Leo Buscaglia

Dont make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to level yourself up. Thomas J. Watson

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. Dale Carnegie

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A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future and accepts you just the way you are. Unknown

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. Confucius

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation. Oscar Wilde

How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give em. Shel Silverstein

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. Arnold H. Glasgow

I dont need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. Plutarch

In everyones life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. Albert Schweitzer

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

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. Friedrich Nietzsche

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when theyre not so good and sympathizes with your problems when theyre not so bad. Unknown

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Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. Its not something you learn in school. But if you havent learned the meaning of friendship, you really havent learned anything. Muhammad Ali

If ever there is tomorrow when were not togetherthere is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if were apartIll always be with you. Winnie the Pooh

Growing apart doesnt change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. Im glad for that. Ally Condie

Ones friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. George Santayana

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone. Audrey Hepburn

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou are in, continue firm and constant. Socrates

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention. Clifton Fadiman

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Dont over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness. Leo F. Buscaglia

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

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Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected. Charles Lamb

If you go looking for a friend, youre going to find theyre very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, youll find them everywhere. Zig Ziglar

You can always tell a real friend; when youve made a fool of yourself, he doesnt feel youve done a permanent job. Laurence J. Peter

Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great. Mark Twain

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you. William Arthur Ward

No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow. Alice Walker

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. Woodrow T. Wilson

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

Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friends success. Oscar Wilde

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. Elisabeth Foley

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Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something; theyre trying to find someone whos going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take. Anthony Robbins

Theres one sad truth in life Ive found while journeying east and west the only folks we really wound are those we love the best. We flatter those we scarcely know, we please the fleeting guest, and deal full many a thoughtless blow to those who love us best. Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. Oprah Winfrey

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming. William Hazlitt

A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling. Arthur Brisbane

Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference. Emil Ludwig

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence; which costs us nothing. John Tillotson

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are. Donald Miller

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. Anais Nin

If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone. Maxwell Maltz

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Hayley Small is a writer who focuses on pop culture, religion and relationship topics.

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