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50 Quotes That Prove That Our Real Soulmates In Life Are Our Friends

Because your lovers have nothing on your friends. 
Heidi Priebe
June 23, 2016
“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
Tagged: Originality, Creativity, Individuality
“Friendship is the most underrated relationship in our lives. It remains the one relation not bound by law, blood, or money — but an unspoken agreement of love.”
— Hanya Yanagihara, Relying on Friendship in a World Made for Couples
Tagged: Friendship, The Ways We Love
“The calendar says I had known him only for a few months but there exist friendships which develop their own inner duration, their own eons of transparent time, independent of rotating, malicious music.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire (Vintage International)
Tagged: Friendship, Time Warps, Time, Subjective Time
“Maybe we could be each other's soul mates. Then we could let men be just these great, nice guys to have fun with.”
— Kristin Davis, Sex and the City
Tagged: soulmates, Friendship, sisterhood, Friends
“Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified.”
— Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life: A Novel
Tagged: Friendship, Friends, Friendship vs. Realtionships, Resist
“The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.”
— Adrienne Rich, 'Disloyal to Civilization': Feminism, Racism, and Gynephobia,' in Chrysalis No. 7
Tagged: feminism, Female Empowerment, Female Connection, Feminist, Being a woman, Friendship, Female Friendships
“People just need a little help because they are so used to not loving.”
— Miranda July, No One
Tagged: Love, Loving People, Relationships, Friendship
“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, Quotes Valley
Tagged: Oprah Winfrey, Friendship, Love
“The most important thing in life is your family. There are days you love them, and others you don’t. But, in the end, they’re the people you always come home to. Sometimes it’s the family you’re born into and sometimes it’s the one you make for yourself.”
— Carrie, Sex And The City Quotes
Tagged: Sex And The City, Friendship, Love
“Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.”
— Albert Camus, Beyond Survival
Tagged: Albert Camus, Friendship, Love
“Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is, because you know people who have similar experiences.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events (13 Book Series)
Tagged: Friendship, Life
“And finally, the most important break up rule: no matter who broke your heart, or how long it takes to heal, you’ll never go through it without your friends.’”
— Carrie Bradshaw, 35 Timeless ‘Sex And The City’ Quotes Every Fabulous Single Woman Should Read
Tagged: Sex And The City, Love, Friendship
“I think everybody should like everybody. ”
— Andy Warhol, Interview with Gene Swenson, Art News (1963)
Tagged: Love, Friendship, Relationships, People
“No friendship is an accident.”
— O. Henry, Heart Of The West
Tagged: Friendship
“Friendship is born at the moment when one man says to another 'What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .'”
— C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
Tagged: Friendship, Love, Absurdity
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
— Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
Tagged: Friendship, Love, All Or Nothing
“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”
— Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You
Tagged: Friend, Best Friends, Friendship, Life, Loneliness
“Friendships don't magically last forty years. You have to invest in them.”
— Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City
Tagged: Friendship, Investment
“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (Modern Classics)
Tagged: Friendship
“I don’t care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching they are your family.”
— Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty
Tagged: Friendship, Love, Family
“It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire to be close.”
— Rachel Cohn, Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List
Tagged: Friendship, Love, Relationships, Closeness
“Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.”
— Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Tagged: Friendship, Love
“'Two a.m.' He swallowed, then said, 'You know. The person you can call at two a.m. and, no matter what, you can count on them. Even if they're asleep or it's cold or you need to be bailed out of jail... they'll come for you. It's like, the highest level of friendship.’”
— Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye
Tagged: Friendship, Love
“In your entire life, you can probably count your true friends on one hand. Maybe even on one finger. Those are the friends you need to cherish, and I wouldn't trade one of them for a hundred of the other kind.”
— Sarah Ockler, Fixing Delilah
Tagged: Friendship, Love
“With that right person, you can have a late-night conversation at any time of the day.”
— David Levithan, Are We There Yet
Tagged: Friendship, Conversation
“We all want someone to build a fort with. We want somebody to swap crayons with and play hide-and-seek with and live out imaginary stories with. We start out getting that from our family. Then we get it from our friends. And then, for whatever reasons, we get it in our heads that we need to get that feeling- that intimacy- from a single someone else. We call if growing up. But really, when you take sex out of it, what we want is a companion. And we make that so damn hard to find.”
— David Levithan, Are We There Yet
Tagged: Friendship, Love, Intimacy
“A friend is someone who wants your updates. Even if they're boring. Or sad. Or annoyingly cutesy. A friend says 'Sign me up for your boring crap, yes indeed'--because he likes you anyways. He'll tolerate your junk’”
— E. Lockhart, Real Live Boyfriends: Yes. Boyfriends, plural. If my life weren't complicated, I wouldn't be Ruby Oliver (Ruby Oliver Quartet)
Tagged: Friendship, Friends
“Wherever it is you may be, it is your friends who make your world.”
— Chris Bradford, The Way Of The Sword
Tagged: Friendship, Friends, Life
“Life is so messy and difficult. The best you can really hope for is that you have a friend who anchors you and makes you feel safe. It helps if this friend has really great hair too.”
— Ryan O'Connell, You Can’t Get Through Your 20s Without A Best Friend
Tagged: Friendship, Love, Best Friends, Friends
“If you’re fortunate enough, you will find a person who sees this world in the exact same way that you do.”
— Ryan O'Connell, You Can’t Get Through Your 20s Without A Best Friend
Tagged: Friendship, Life, Friends, Love