Enduring Bonds

Table of Contents

• Friends as Support and Guidance
• Friends through Difficult Times
• Friends as Companions
• Friends Who Leave or Change
• Friends as Precious and Rare
• Other

Friends as Support and Guidance

Friends are supposed to act like harbor boats—let you know if you’re off course. But it ain’t always possible…

Friends are sometimes the only thing that keep us from plunging into the abyss. But you have to reach for them, and they have to be there on the other side of the cliff reaching out to you too.

Make your friends a priority, so they are not lost to the black hole of a busy, hurried life.

Real friends don't leave those who shout and scream, they just stand back and leave them until they are ready to calm down...

The most we can do is hold out our hands and help each other across the unknown. For in our held hands we find pathways through the dark, across jungles and cities, bridges suspended over the deepest caverns of this world. Your friends will walk with you, holding on with all their might, even when they're no longer there.

We must take our friends as they are.

The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward, and we want to sit in their radius.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

Friends who can accept you, even when the rules change like that, are gold.

Friends will take care of them. That’s what friends do.

The most we can do is hold out our hands and help each other across the unknown. For in our held hands we find pathways through the dark, across jungles and cities, bridges suspended over the deepest caverns of this world. Your friends will walk with you, holding on with all their might, even when they’re no longer there.

Friends are supposed to act like harbor boats-let you know if you’re off course. But it ain’t always possible.

My friends come first no matter what.

Friends through Difficult Times

That's what friends, that's what brethren are for. To be there, where words cannot.

One thing I've learned is that in the midst of your darkest moments of tribulation, there is no such thing as mass friends.

You’ll find a way. You’ll always find a way. And on the rare occasions when you can’t, you’ll have friends who will.

Good friends will share the umbrella. Best friends will steal it and yell: It’s Awesome, Now Run!

Some people standby you in your darkest hour while others walk away; only a select few march towards you and become even closer friends.

With a clear sky, a bright sun, and a gentle breeze, you will have friends in plenty; but let fortune frown, and the firmament be overcast, and then your friends will prove like the strings of the lute, of which you will tighten ten before you find one that will bear the stretch and keep the pitch.

When one of your friends falls by the wayside, everybody takes the hit. There is something missing.

Understand that friends come and go. But a precious few, who should hold on.

But you have to let people go through whatever it is they have to go through. Just be there for your friends. That’s all we can really do for each other sometimes.

Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.

I’ve spent most of my life and most of my friendships holding my breath and hoping that when people get close enough they won’t leave, and fearing that it’s a matter of time before they figure me out and go.

When the going gets tough, the leeches are nowhere to be found, but the real people - the real friends - are with you through thick and thin.

All other friends may come and go, / All other friendships fail; / But these, the friends I've worked to win, / Oh, they will never stale; / And comfort me till Time shall write / The finish to my tale.

Friends as Companions

Hey, and for what it's worth? Friends don't leave you alone in the woods. Friends are the ones who come and take you out.

But I don't think I ought to leave my friends like this, after all we have gone through together.

Friends don’t leave each other in the woods. they are the one who come and take you out

May your footsteps leave only friends behind.

My friends love coming over because they get fed.

These are my friends, the people I knew. Some of these people have nothing to go home to.

They may not all walk away best friends, It's in everyone's interest to reach a deal.

I need these guys back in good health. They're friends of mine.

I just kind of assumed that you do a movie and then you leave and you hop onto the next thing. I never thought that people are actually buddies.

Take it as a token. Because tomorrow when I go, I want you to believe friends are possible.

Those people in 'Friends' could not go out without being hounded, shouted at or followed. Who wants that? I don't want that.

We're all with Friends until Friends dies. If one of us goes, we all go. One of us wouldn't leave. It wouldn't be the show it is without each of us.

Friends come and go but I wouldn't have thought you'd be one of them.

Friends Who Leave or Change

Your friends drag you down, Gordie. Don't you know that? [...] Your friends do. They're like drowning guys that are holding onto your legs. You can't save them. You can only drown with them.

That’s what happens to friends, eventually. They leave you. It’s practically what they’re for.

If I don't see the reason of someone being my friend, chances are, we are just floating and I need a ship to set sail.

The thing about friends is, you never know when you might need them. It's always best to keep them imprisoned nearby.

The road will be one long, I'm sure at that. So far the real friends are few, but few more challanges and few of them will gone also, won't they?

Often when it comes to friends. When the rubber hits the road you'll find yourself hitch hiking

Friends can come and go, but banners hang forever.

We’re all with Friends until Friends dies. If one of us goes, we all go. One of us wouldn’t leave. It wouldn’t be the show it is without each of us.

Friends come and go but banners hang forever.

The nearest friends can go With anyone to death, comes so far short They might as well not try to go at all.

Those guys know that when you step on the baseball field, friendship is out the door. I'm going to do everything I can to get them out.

No, the point of this story is that there are only a select few friends, past or present, that I would go to such lengths to stand by.

Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.

Friends as Precious and Rare

all people are friends waiting to happen, so tell your friends to friend me

Don’t put off your adventures while you wait for available friends to join.

It’s best to have a small boat of friends where everyone rows than an ark of friends where no one does. At least you’re getting somewhere.

I've spent most of my life and most of my friendships holding my breath and hoping that when people get close enough they won't leave, and fearing that it's a matter of time before they figure me out and go.

Ixion’s not a place for friends. They die or they leave. On Ixion you need allies.

The forges of friendship, thought Angus, may be busy ones, but their dorrs are always open.

I think that's the kind of thing you have to chip away at. I think, eventually, people will go, 'Oh, OK, there's no story there.' You know what I mean? Certainly all of our being here isn't gonna make it stop. But you just have to laugh about it and go, 'Eventually, they're going to figure out that they're all pretty good friends.' But it'll take some time, for sure.

Mostly you meet friends when traveling by accident, like by sitting next to them on the train, or in a restaurant, or in a holding cell.

Friends are supposed to act like harbor boats-let you know if you're off course. But it ain't always possible.

That’s what friends, that’s what brethren are for. To be there, where words cannot.

Friends don’t keep score.” Because friends don’t have to keep score, my da would of said. Friends just pitch in as needed, as they can.

Imaginary friends often leave without warning.

Rule number sixteen of friendship,” I say. “Don’t go somewhere I can’t follow.

Other

Hey, and for what it’s worth? Friends don’t leave you alone in the woods. Friends are the ones who come and take you out.

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