Influence Of Friends

Table of Contents

• The Changing Nature of Friendships
• Support and Loyalty
• Authenticity and Honesty
• Influence and Growth
• Judgment and Acceptance
• Diversity and Differences
• Other

The Changing Nature of Friendships

But friendships are mercurial. They're shape-shifters. I've learned to allow them to fluctuate and take new forms. I love my friends; that's all that matters.

But then I wondered if sometimes our friendships are a bit like clothes and when they start feeling uncomfortable it's not because we've done anything wrong. It just means that we've outgrown them.

Friendships have different phases and change over time. All we can really control is ourselves. Be the type of friend you want to have!

People change, they end up having nothing to say to each other, even if they were were best friends a year earlier.

As we change, we sometimes outgrow our friendships. And, since we cannot change this fact, it is best to simply accept it for what it is in order to appreciate the power that the friend had in your life when he or she was a part of it.

Isn't that... isn't that what friends do? They change our perspective on the world. Part of why we care about them is because we love that feeling. The feeling of being changed.

But uhh, a thug changes, and love changes and best friends become strangers, word up

People who have been good friends will turn on someone because they aren't following the same path. You have to question whether you want them to be your friends anyway.

The complicated thing about friends is that sometimes they are totally wrong about us and sometimes they are totally right and it’s almost always only in retrospect that we know which is which.

It can be tough with best friendships. You’re both growing and changing, and it’s hard to grow and change at the same rate.

All we can do is to make the best of our friends: love and cherish what is good in them, and keep out of the way of what is bad: but no more think of rejecting them for it than of throwing away a piece of music for a flat passage or two.

But friendships are mercurial. They’re shape-shifters. I’ve learned to allow them to fluctuate and take new forms. I love my friends; that’s all that matters.

With friendship, it's hard sometimes - you don't outgrow your friends, but you do question how people are friends to you in different ways and how it's okay to cultivate other relationships outside of that.

Support and Loyalty

I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.

My dad once said... "Some friends are like "rubber wrappers"; they bind with you safely but get weaker when you stretch them too much". Treat your friends with care, else the elasticity of their love for you may not go lasting!

Friendships are the most important thing you can have in your life. Sometimes they have their ups and downs. Sometimes it's your fault and sometimes it's not. But the key to handling those ups and downs is to remember that good friends will always find their way back to each other.

Friends usually bring out better versions of each other. People feel unguarded and fluid with their close friends.

Friends are the ones who will always have your back and their perspective on you doesn't change no matter what

It's important to remember how our friends have such a powerful influence on us and vice versa. This can be a great thing as long as your friends surround you with love, loyalty, respect and positivity.

Friends are always pretty, even when they’re not.

Friends are the ones who will always have your back and their perspective on you doesn’t change no matter what.

It’s important to remember how our friends have such a powerful influence on us and vice versa. This can be a great thing as long as your friends surround you with love, loyalty, respect and positivity.

This life is what you make it. Not matter what, you’re going to mess up sometimes, it’s a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you’re going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends – they’ll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, somg go. The ones that stay with you through everything – they’re your true best friends. Don’t let go of them.

Don't take your friends for granted or that everyone is going to be OK.

I have had the same friends for a really long time, and I like them because they like some of the stuff I like, but they are also really different from me.

I was lucky that I had friends who have maintained a very regular attitude with me and haven't changed how they interact with me.

Authenticity and Honesty

Don't allow anyone to hold you back from expressing your feelings. Maybe you just can't stand a chance of losing some friends, but if you must be truly you, you must be you! Nothing else!

As I have learned over the years, your friends don’t change; you just learn to ignore or embrace the bad bits.

I guess you can be yourself, whatever that means-the best and worst of you. And they love you anyway. You can fight, but even when you're mad at them, you know they're not going to stop being your friend.

My attitude toward friendship has remained the same. I will support and encourage you with all the love in my heart, but if it's not reciprocal, I gotta go [...] If your friends are bitter about your success to the extent that they act out, don't expect them to change [...] Move on.

It’s scary to realize that the only thing holding our friends to us isn’t our performance, or our lovability, or their guilt, or their obligation. The only thing that will keep them calling, spending time with us, and putting up with us is love. And that’s the one thing we can’t control.

Close friends love you for who you are; not what they want you to be.

It’s worse when they think they’re your friend. Gawx, the viziers. They make assumptions. They think they know you, then start to expect things of you. Then you have to be the person everyone thinks you are, not the person you actually are.

I guess you can be yourself, whatever that means-the best and worst of you. And they love you anyway. You can fight, but even when you’re mad at them, you know they’re not going to stop being your friend.

I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

Just because you are friends doesn't mean you like the same kind of men, want to live in the same type of house, and both want your steak cooked the same way! I often disagree with my friends, however I make every effort to be sensitive to their feelings and be supportive.

That's what friendships are, isn't it? You don't all have to be the same, as long as you've all got the same sense of humor and same attitudes on life.

The same person that speaks highly of you will be the same person that downs you. Be careful who you call friends.

When your friends are ignoring you that means they weren't your friends from the beginning, they where just acting like it.

Influence and Growth

Your life is going to be influenced by friends you mingle with.

Friends don't have to like all the same stuff, they just have to like each other." - Jade the Cat

Isn't that... isn't that what friends do? They change our perspective on the world. Part of why we care about them is because we love that feeling. The feeling of being changed.

It's important to remember how our friends have such a powerful influence on us and vice versa. This can be a great thing as long as your friends surround you with love, loyalty, respect and positivity.

Friends broaden our horizons. They serve as new models with whom we can identify. They allow us to be ourselves-and accept us that way. They enhance our self-esteem because they think we're okay, because we matter to them. And because they matter to us-for various reasons, at various levels of intensity-they enrich the quality of our emotional life.

Promise yourself to make all your friends know there is something in them that is special and that you value.

But this is what friends do. We remind each other how awesome we are.

Isn’t that... isn’t that what friends do? They change our perspective on the world. Part of why we care about them is because we love that feeling. The feeling of being changed.

Friends have a big influence over how you feel, think, and behave.

When you're in the world I'm in, sometimes you have to remember that when you see your friends, you need to ask them what they've been doing, and you need to grow up and learn your life isn't necessarily more interesting than other people's.

These people you grew up with, they're important to you in your life. They've been there for you. They're your friends. They've seen you make it. They really are happy for you. But they see you with this new life, with a new set of friends, and it can be hard to balance that.

None of my friends act any differently towards me, which is great. I was scared about that, so scared about that.

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us.

Judgment and Acceptance

Think deeply about things. Don’t just go along because that’s the way things are or that’s what your friends say. Consider the effects, consider the alternatives, but most importantly, just think.

You always feel like you are the only one in the world, like everyone else is crazy for each other, but it's not true. Generally, people don't like each other very much. And that goes for friends, too.

Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.

We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults reconcile us to their virtues.

Friends never make assumptions about you. They never expect a reason to go out with you. In fact friends only expect you to be you.

We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn't matter.

The complicated thing about friends is that sometimes they are totally wrong about us and sometimes they are totally right and it's almost always only in retrospect that we know which is which.

Friends don’t judge friends. They just gradually learn to understand them better.

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn’t matter.

You always feel like you are the only one in the world, like everyone else is crazy for each other, but it’s not true. Generally, people don’t like each other very much. And that goes for friends, too.

Feeling we have to be constantly updated about the lives of our friends and that everything we say has to be out there leads to frustration, anger and jealousy much more than it leads to anything else.

When your friends are ignoring you that means they weren't your friends from the beginning, they where just acting like it.

Diversity and Differences

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us

They treat us just like their other friends. They're good to us. And we're good to them.

I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different.

You always want your friends to like who you're seeing.

When you have good friends you've been around, every time they talk, you don't give them your full attention. You don't look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you're listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

When we're in that kind of childish space, we're more genuine and feel more comfortable with our friends.

My friends are very opinionated about the people I date.

Make all your friends feel there is something in them.

You should be especially careful when associating with one of your former friends or acquaintances not to sink to their level; otherwise you will lose yourself. If you are troubled by the idea that ‘He’ll think I’m boring and won’t treat me the way he used to,’ remember that everything comes at a price. It isn’t possible to change your behavior and still be the same person you were before.

When you’re a teenager, your friends are your life. When you grow up, friendships seem to get pushed further and further back, until it seems like a luxury, a frivolity, like a bubble bath.

That's what friendships are, isn't it? You don't all have to be the same, as long as you've all got the same sense of humor and same attitudes on life.

I have had the same friends for a really long time, and I like them because they like some of the stuff I like, but they are also really different from me.

Other

Keep on reading, thinking, doing and writing! Words keep introducing their friends to you.

There should be a little gap between you and your friends, though you'll miss their companionship and you'll also miss their disrespect.

Build mutual friendships. Just be ready to end them when your friends start trying to eat you.

When your friends like you, it is your craze and when your frenemies like you, it is your grace

All I think about when I'm with friends is having a good time. I can't bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don't seem to be able to get any closer, and that's the problem. Maybe it's my fault that we don't confide in each other. In any case, that's just how things are, and unfortunately they're not liable to change.

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us

When you're a teenager, your friends are your life. When you grow up, friendships seem to get pushed further and further back, until it seems like a luxury, a frivolity, like a bubble bath.

I have the same friends I've had for years and the same family. Unless you love rock n' roll and Hollywood parties and having your photo taken, I don't think necessarily things need to change too much.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.

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