Making new friends is one of the greatest things that can happen. These quotes reflect the joy of making new friendships that can last forever.
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“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.-Anaïs Nin
“We don’t meet people by accident. They are meant to cross our path for a reason.-Unknown
“Friendship isn’t about whom you have known the longest… It’s about who came, and never left your side.-Mikaela Tiu
“Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.-Francesco Guicciardini
“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
“Friendship is so weird.. you just pick a human you’ve met and you’re like ‘yep I like this one’ and you just do stuff with them.-Unknown
“True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.-David Tyson Gentry
“The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy to your soul.-Shanna Rodriguez
“Every new friend is a new adventure… the start of more memories.-Patrick Lindsay
“Friendship is a horizon – Which expands whenever we approach it.-E.R. Harlip
“What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.-C.S. Lewis
“While friendship itself has an air of eternity about it, seeming to transcend all natural limits, there is hardly any emotion so utterly at the mercy of time. We form friendships, and grow out of them. It might almost be said that we cannot retain the faculty of friendship unless we are continually making new friends.-Robert Hugh Benson
“We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.-Letty Cottin Pogrebin
“We didn’t realize we were making memories, we just knew we were having fun.-Unknown
“New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.-F. Scott Fitzgerald
“The best way to make friends? Bring a pack of gum.-Unknown
“Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.-Socrates
“The kindest way of helping yourself is to find a friend.-Ann Kaiser Stearns
“Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.-G. Randolf
“I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.-Will Carleton
“Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold.-Joseph Parry
“A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.-Miguel de Cervantes
“By chance we met, by choice we become friends.-Millie Huang
“You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can’t forget. Those are your friends.-Unknown
“Friends are born, not made.-Henry Adams
“When you choose your friends, don’t be short-changed by choosing personality over character.-W. Somerset Maugham
“A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.-Markus Zusak
“Trust is hard to come by. That’s why my circle is small and tight. I’m kind of funny about making new friends.-Eminem
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.-Aristotle
“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.-Oscar Wilde
“What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words?-Richard Russo
“All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost.-G.K. Chesterton
“A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.-Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.-George Eliot