Friendships are not easy to maintain. They take trust and love. And nothing hurts more than losing a friend.
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“Friendship is delicate as a glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks.-Waqar Ahmed
“Lovers have a right to betray you… friends don’t.-Judy Holliday
“The worst pain in the world goes beyond the physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain one can feel. It is the betrayal of a friend.-Heather Brewer, Ninth Grade Slays
“Fake friends believe in rumors. Real friends believe in you. -Unknown
“A friendship that can cease has never been real.-St. Jerome
“It’s hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it….-Nicole Richie
“There comes a time when you have to stop crossing oceans for people who wouldn’t even jump puddles for you. -Unknown
“If friends disappoint you over and over, that’s in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need to recognize that and take care of yourself; people aren’t going to change simply because you want them to. -Oprah Winfrey
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.-Alice Walker
“In life we never lose friends, we only who our true ones are.-Unknown
“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.-William Blake
“An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.-Buddha
“It takes years to build trust and just seconds to destroy it.-Unknown
“True friendship is like a rose: we don’t realize its beauty until it fades.-Evelyn Loeb
“Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.-Walter Dean Myers, Slam!
“Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other’s little failings.-Jean De La Bruyere
“Friendship isn’t about whom you have known the longest…it’s about who came, and never left your side.-Anonymous
“Moving on is simple; what you leave behind, that makes it difficult.-Unknown
“If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.-Blaise Pascal
“Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“Make as many friends as you can, but don’t build your life on them alone. It’s an unstable foundation.-Sean Covey
“Choose your friends wisely-they will make or break you.-J. Willard Marriott
“There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.-Buddha
“The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.-Sir Francis Bacon
“Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after awhile and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came.-L.M. Montgomery
“Trust is like a paper, once it’s crumpled, it can’t be perfect again.-Unknown
“Friendship must never be buried under the weight of misunderstanding.-Sri Chinmoy
“True friendship is like sound health, the value is seldom appreciated until it is lost.-Charles Caleb Colton
“Friendship is like a glass ornament. Once it is broken it can rarely be put back together in exactly the same way.-Unknown
“The sword wounds the body, but words wound the soul. These are the wounds I received in the house of my friends.-Zechariah
“A simple friend thinks the friendship is over when you have an argument. A real friend knows that it’s not a friendship until after you’ve had a fight.-Unknown
“If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends – you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.-Alice Duer Miller
“It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.-Confucius
“The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.-H G Wells
