New Friend Dynamics

Table of Contents

• Old Friends
• Making New Friends
• Friendship Over Time
• Challenges in Friendships
• Value of Friendships
• Friendship and Aging
• Friendship and Change
• Friendship and Community
• Friendship and Personal Growth
• Other

Old Friends

Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.

You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.

We're like old friends now. The kind that know the worst about each other and don't always speak but check in enough and decorate the internet with pictures of each other's kids.

There is something wonderful about old friends. They know everything about you, have been a part of your life for so long, that you can seamlessly pick up right where you left off.

Old friends are like old memories they always remind your past

Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.

Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dependent.

No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.

Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.

When we forget old friends, it is a sign we have forgotten ourselves.

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

You don't have to have anything in common with people you've known since you were five. With old friends, you've got your whole life in common.

Being friends with anyone for 30 years is no easy task - people change, they drift apart, they move on.

Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow To Be old friends?

Friends that you have known for a long time and love very dearly never seem to grow old.

Old friends are the great blessings of one’s later years. Half a word conveys one’s meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow To Be old friends?

There’s no friends like the old friends.

You don’t have to have anything in common with people you’ve known since you were five. With old friends, you’ve got your whole life in common.

Making New Friends

It's funny...to be suddenly presented with the possibility of making new friends. One begins to accept, at a certain age, that one has already made all the friends to which one is entitled. One becomes used to them as a static set--with some attrition, of course.

Criteria for friendship changes as we grow older; it becomes less of an exercise of connecting with a person’s interests and more an endeavor to connect with the person’s identity.

New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.

It is a sad but unavoidable fact of life," he began, "that as we age our social circles grow smaller. Whether from increased habit or diminished vigor, we suddenly find ourselves in the company of just a few familiar faces. So I view it as an incredible stroke of good fortune at this stage in my life to have found such a fine new friend.

I've been thinking, Christopher Robin,' said Pooh, 'which do you like best: old friends or new?'Christopher Robin thought and, after a long time, said: 'Well, I like new friends because you never quite know what they'll do next. But I like old friends, too, because, however long you've known them, you are always discovering things you didn't know before.

Make new friends but keep the old, those are silver, these are gold.

You can make a new friend but you can't make an old one.

It's difficult to meet new friends when you get older.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.

Treat each person as you would an old friend.

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.

We need new friends; some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up; others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact the ideal version of their lives.

I can especially see this arrangement being of interest to women. With 30 percent widowed in the 65-74 age bracket, they'll be living a long time without a spouse. Instead of moving into a group situation where you might or might not like the other members, you could choose your friends and people who have the same kinds of value systems and interests.

I think it’s a delightful thing, for a young teenage girl to befriend someone of another generation. She is like a window into the past, I think to myself.

You’ll make friends for life here. People you can call up twenty years from now, for anything, and they’ll be there for you. I promise you, you won’t regret these days, ever.

Friendship Over Time

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

The older you get, the more you realize you need a handful of good, close, tight friends.

You’d be hard-pressed to find an old person who would trade in a true friend for any amount of popularity or fame. You'd also be hard-pressed to find a young person who wouldn't.

It's funny. Friendships are Catch twenty-twos when you're single and in your thirties. Friends are your life rafts. You try to help each other meet people, you confide in each other, you spend Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, all those emotional land-mine holidays together. But sooner or later one of you is going to meet someone and be gone into the world of couples.

Genuine and lasting friendship is possible, but it is not easy to achieve. If all of us could establish a long lasting friendship, many mature people would still have old friends from their school days.

Friendship matters, especially in old age, when death reduces the number of one's friends.

But as you age, you lose other, even more important things, like friends-hopefully only bad friends, who maybe weren't as good for you as you once thought. With luck, you'll be able to hang on to your true friends, the ones who were always there for you....even when you thought they weren't.Because friends like that are more precious then all the tiaras in the world

People's lives change. To keep all your old friends is like keeping all your old clothes -- pretty soon your closet is so jammed and everything so crushed you can't find anything to wear. Help these friends when they need you; bless the years and happy times when you meant a lot to each other, but try not to have the guilts if new people mean more to you now.

How does one keep from "growing old inside"? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people.... Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are indispensable.

But as you age, you lose other, even more important things, like friends-hopefully only bad friends, who maybe weren't as good for you as you once thought. With luck, you'll be able to hang on to your true friends, the ones who were always there for you....even when you thought they weren't. Because friends like that are more precious then all the tiaras in the world

One of the greatest titles we can have is "old friend". We never appreciate how important old friends are until we are older. The problem is we need to start our old friendships when we are young. We then have to nurture and grow those friendships over our middle age when a busy life and changing geographies can cause us to neglect those friends. Today is the day to invest in those people we hope will call us 'old friend" in the years to come.

I guess no one stays friends for more than thirty years without broken hearts along the way.

You can go through life and make new friends every year – every month practically – but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.

You’d be hard-pressed to find an old person who would trade in a true friend for any amount of popularity or fame. You’d also be hard-pressed to find a young person who wouldn’t.

No good-byes among old friends.

Challenges in Friendships

As we age, it becomes harder to make friends, and it is harder to maintain friendships. You don’t want to lose valuable friendships or grow apart from family, because you did not take the time to reflect on their importance. Even though family and friends might encourage you to chase your dreams; once they don’t see you every day, you are more or less forgotten.

The cracks in old friendships are measured in awkward pauses.

It's terrible when you get old enough to dislike your old friends.

Relations with many of our oldest friends are, quite frankly, scraping the bottom right now,

Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.

The soil of friendship is worn out with constant use. Habit may still attach us to each other, but we feel ourselves fettered by it. Old friends might be compared to old married people without the tie of children.

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.

You can't make old friends. You either have them or you don't.

Being friends with anyone for 30 years is no easy task - people change, they drift apart, they move on.

Being friends with anyone for 30 years is no easy task – people change, they drift apart, they move on.

Some might wonder that the two men should consider themselves to be old friends having only known each other for four years; but the tenure of friendships has never been governed by the passage of time.

Infinite sadness is not to trust an old friend.

Nothing like working with friends. Everyone appreciated a hint that the Grim Reaper was breathing down their neck the moment they turned forty.

Everything else pales next to the fact that he’s going to outlive us all. It’s probably safer for him not to have intimate friends.” “I don’t care how old you get,” Sehvi said. “It’s never safer to have no friends.

Value of Friendships

There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.

Well, you can't make old friends.

For there is no such thing: Right person at the right time! Instead with the right team, Embrace Time that simply flies.Never when meeting old friends Does time really pass by?In trust and truth they make amends So Time they can really defy. Hence, no one denies then: In all it revitalizes. Principled friendship never dies!

Friends are more valuable then you think look up and realize whats around you for when you get old everything will be different.

It is a quirk of the age that the easiest way to start a friendship with someone is generally by asking them to get undressed.

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.

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good old friend.

Good friends walk in when the old ones walk out.

But now old friends are acting strange They shake their heads, they say I've changed Well something's lost, but something's gained In living every day

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.

Many people consider me an old friend.

To be with old friends is very warming and comforting,

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.

There’s not a word yet, for old friends who’ve just met.

In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That’s terribly important, especially for a writer.

Friendship and Aging

It is a sad but unavoidable fact of life," he began, "that as we age our social circles grow smaller. Whether from increased habit or diminished vigor, we suddenly find ourselves in the company of just a few familiar faces. So I view it as an incredible stroke of good fortune at this stage in my life to have found such a fine new friend.

The old you has been left behind to leave place for the new you. And it will be a new you that your new friends will admire, that your old friends will struggle to understand and that your true friends will learn to embrace.

Today I found an old friend.

Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them...

When you get to my age, you find that most of your dear friends are gone.

One of the greatest titles we can have is old friend. Today is the day to invest in those people we hope will call us 'old friend in the years to come.

When you get older, everybody sort of changes and moves away. I think that stands the test of time, when you have a friendship from youth that's still in your life today.

It's not as though you're an old school friend of mine.

Growing up, we were almost strangers. Six years is a big difference. You live in the same house. You're not friends at that point. Not the way we are now.

The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.

In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer.

We grow too old to lose old friends...

I’m glad you’re here, Monkey,” said Arthur Abbott at last. “I’m getting old, I suppose. Anyhow, I’ve come to the time of life when one old friend seems better than all the new friends in the world.

New friends,” he said, as if it were an important point, “can often have a better time together than old friends.

Everything else pales next to the fact that he’s going to outlive us all. It’s probably safer for him not to have intimate friends.” “I don’t care how old you get,” Sehvi said. “It’s never safer to have no friends.

Friendship and Change

The old you has been left behind to leave place for the new you. And it will be a new you that your new friends will admire, that your old friends will struggle to understand and that your true friends will learn to embrace.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend, so I figure I better get moving.

People's lives change. To keep all your old friends is like keeping all your old clothes -- pretty soon your closet is so jammed and everything so crushed you can't find anything to wear. Help these friends when they need you; bless the years and happy times when you meant a lot to each other, but try not to have the guilts if new people mean more to you now.

When you get to my age, you find that most of your dear friends are gone.

When you get older, everybody sort of changes and moves away. I think that stands the test of time, when you have a friendship from youth that's still in your life today.

The new is older than the old; And newest friend is oldest friend in this: That, waiting him, we longest grieved to miss One thing we sought.

One of the hardest aspects of this protracted public persona is not knowing others as well as they feel they know me. It's a rather clumsy feeling actually; to not know someone who acts as though you're old friends.

But now old friends are acting strange They shake their heads, they say I've changed Well something's lost, but something's gained In living every day

Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold.

The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.

Newish friends, if they get ghastly, can be weighed and found wanting, but you’d never do a thing like that to old ones; their terrible habits are just part of the universe.

You can’t make old friends. You either have them or you don’t.

Everything else pales next to the fact that he’s going to outlive us all. It’s probably safer for him not to have intimate friends.” “I don’t care how old you get,” Sehvi said. “It’s never safer to have no friends.

Friendship and Community

How does one keep from "growing old inside"? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people.... Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are indispensable.

Treat each person as you would an old friend.

We regard America and Europe as old friends. We keep old friends, but we make new friends in Japan, India, and China.

Friends Reunited have got a very strong brand, they've got a huge database and they've managed to make money, which is a conjuring act most of the internet operations we saw during 2000 weren't able to do. Friends Reunited has stood the test of time.

We need new friends; some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up; others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact the ideal version of their lives.

For all of us, whether we walk old paths or blaze new trails, friends remain important.

Some might wonder that the two men should consider themselves to be old friends having only known each other for four years; but the tenure of friendships has never been governed by the passage of time.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

Old friends are the great blessings of one’s later years. Half a word conveys one’s meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow To Be old friends?

Everything else pales next to the fact that he’s going to outlive us all. It’s probably safer for him not to have intimate friends.” “I don’t care how old you get,” Sehvi said. “It’s never safer to have no friends.

Make new friends but keep the old. One is silver and the other gold.

Friendship and Personal Growth

It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity, But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.

I gather we're old friends.""By my standards. I daresay you measure your friends by the years you have known them, but you're wrong. Friendship is not measured in years.

You're talking about two friends from the old neighborhood.

The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

I don't think unfriending your old crush on Facebook will do much other than remove him from your Facebook feed. Don't beat yourself up over what you dream about; there are a lot worse things that could slip across the transom of your unconscious mind than an old high school crush who was always nice to you.

Of everything else the newest; of friends, the oldest.

Newish friends, if they get ghastly, can be weighed and found wanting, but you'd never do a thing like that to old ones; their terrible habits are just part of the universe.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

Other

It's not as though you're an old school friend of mine, Cynthia.

And the days went by like paper in the wind. Everything changed, then changed again. It's hard to find a friend. It's hard to find a friend.

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

It is always painful fo part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.

It is a sad but unavoidable fact of life,” he began, “that as we age our social circles grow smaller. Whether from increased habit or diminished vigor, we suddenly find ourselves in the company of just a few familiar faces. So I view it as an incredible stroke of good fortune at this stage in my life to have found such a fine new friend.

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