True Friendship

True friendship takes time to cultivate and develop. It doesn’t just happen overnight. Friendship develops when acquaintances discover mutual interests, likes and dislikes. True friendship develops when friends feel comfortable with each other enough to trust and confide in each other. True friendship is also understanding and acceptance. We understand what the friend is about, his/her positives and negatives and we accept them for who they are – warts and all. No one is perfect and if we were to wait for the perfect guy to come along and be our friend, we will wait forever, we will be friendless.

Friendship, like relationship can sometimes go terribly wrong. When that happens, we can get hurt and real bad too. But that’s life. We have to learn the lesson and move on. Unfortunately, friendship can be really tested only in bad times. And I am sure, we would rather not have to do that. So, until then, we just have to trust our feelings and judgment that the friends we have are true and genuine, and that they have our best interests at heart, just like we have theirs.

Here are some quotes on true friendship – what it meant and what is expected. Enjoy!

A mark of genuine friendship is the privilege of being yourself and still being accepted. - Unknown

A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other. - Jaron Lanier

A true friendship always tells us that we are acceptable and accepted. This we all need to know. We have a need to be accepted not for any special quality, not for any grand achievement but simply for ourselves. - Unknown

Genuine friendship depends on genuine affection and taking a sense of responsibility for each other. - Dalai Lama

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. - Seneca

Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition. In the moment of friendship, two souls suddenly recognize each other. It could be a meeting on the street, or at a party or a lecture, or just a simple, banal introduction, then suddenly there is the flash of recognition and the embers of kinship grow. There is an awakening between you, a sense of ancient knowing. - John O'Donohue

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another’s little lapses. - David Storey

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. - Thomas Aquinas

Those truly linked don’t need correspondence, when they meet again after many years apart, their friendship is as true as ever. - Deng Ming-Dao

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. - Dace Tyson Gentry

True friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. - Unknown

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. - Charles Caleb Colton

True friendship isn’t about being there when it’s convenient; it’s about being there when it’s not. - Unknown

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