Did you know that your brain can only form emotional ties with about 150 people?
And not only that, but of those 150 contacts, only 5 will fall into the category of ‘best’ friends!
Take a moment to think of your own friendship group.
You’ve probably had some of your closest friends since you were young.
But others may have come along later in life, perhaps when you were least expecting it.
It’s the second type I thought I’d celebrate in today’s post — the beauty of the unexpected friendship.
And what better way to do it than with some awesome quotes on the topic?!
Read on for a roundup of the 100 best unexpected friendship quotes on the internet.
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Famous Unexpected Friendship Quotes
1. “There’s not a word yet, for old friends who’ve just met.” ― Jim Henson
2. “You usually can’t recall all the people you’ve shared laughs with. But you rarely forget the people you’ve shared your tears with.” ― Mya Robarts
3. “It’s strange how we find the best of friends in the most unexpected people.” — Aly Hunter
4. “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.” ― Jane Austen
5. “The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” — Elisabeth Foley
6. “A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.” — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
7. “False friends can be bought, but true friendship is priceless.” ― Matshona Dhliwayo
8.
That’s what friendship is, sharing the prejudice of experience.
9. “A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.” ― Maya Angelou
10. “Friendships are measured in the closeness of hearts, minds and soul ties… not in the distance of physical miles or even the passing of time.” ― Rasheed Ogunlaru
11. “That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart.” — Kristin Hannah
12. “Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.” — Socrates
13. “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.” — Bill Murray
14. “Friendship is like a stubborn child who is playing hide and seek with your life. When you find the child, his smile will light up the darkness of your life.” ― Sandeep Sharma
15. “If you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.” — Muhammad Ali
16. “A friend is someone that asks, ‘how are you,’ and really wants to hear the truth.” ― Tonny K. Brown
17. “Sometimes me think, ‘what is friend?’ and then me say ‘friend is someone to share the last cookie with.'” — Cookie Monster
Inspiring Friendship Bonds Quotes
18. “The language of friendship is not words but meanings.” — Henry David Thoreau
19. “A true friend sees the first tear, catches the second, and stops the third.” — Unknown
20. “No one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.” ― John Joseph Powell
21. “The unexpected is usually what brings the unbelievable.” — Mandy Kellogg Rye
22. “Silence makes the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.” ― Margaret Lee Runbeckv
23. “Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other’s little failings.” ― Jean de La Bruyère
24. “Stick with the people who pull the magic out of you and not the madness.” — Unknown
25. “Happy is the soul that has a friend. Happier is the soul that trusts in the truth of the heart of a friend.” ― Ogwo David Emenike
26. “No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth.” — Robert Southey
27.
The great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
28. “Deep conversations with the right people are priceless.” — Unknown
29. “We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is, at last, a drop which makes it run over.” ― James Boswell
30. “Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
31. “Peace is a place of unhindered enjoyment of friendship beyond guilt, suspicion, and blame of inferiority.” ― François Du Toit
32. “Maybe I can’t stop the downpour, but I will always join you for a walk in the rain.” — Dr Sukhraj Dhillon
33. “The best friendships were the ones that occurred shizen ni – naturally.” ― Waka T. Brown
34. “Happiness is meeting an old friend after a long time and feeling that nothing has changed.” — Unknown
35. “The tenure of friendships has never been governed by the passage of time.” ― Amor Towles
36. “The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.” — Aidan Chambers
Insightful Quotes About Meeting New Friends
37. “The best relationships usually begin unexpectedly.” — Unknown
38. “You are the best thing I never planned.” — Unknown
39. “That is how friendships begin: one person reveals a moment of strangeness, and the other person decides just to listen and not exploit it.” ― Meg Wolitzer
40. “A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.” — Jaron Lanier
41. “Ironically, the people you meet by accident are often the ones who become an important part of your life.” — Unknown
42. “Friendship… is born at the moment when one man says to another ‘What! You too? I thought that no one but myself…’” ― C.S. Lewis
43. “The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy to your soul.” — Shanna Rodriguez
44. “Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.” ― Khalil Gibran
45. “Friendships unfold gradually as women share intimacies with one another. This takes time.” ― Irene S. Levine
46. “True caring friends are a gift; be careful not to tear the wrapping when you open it.” ― RJ Intindola
47.
They don’t sell friends in stores…
48. “Wasn’t friendship its own miracle, the finding of another person who made the entire lonely world seem somehow less lonely?” ― Hanya Yanagihara
49. “If you have two friends in your lifetime, you’re lucky. If you have one good friend, you’re more than lucky.” ― S.E. Hinton
50. “Do not choose friends who only flatter you, but who understand you.” ― Eraldo Banovac
51. “The best friendships are the ones you never saw coming.” — Unknown
52. “That’s the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.” — Miriam Adeney
53. “It could be a meeting on the street, or a party or a lecture…Then suddenly there is a flash of recognition, and the embers of kinship glow, a sense of ancient knowing.”― John O’Donohue
54. “Usually unplanned events, unplanned trips, unexpected friends are actually the best.” — Unknown
55. “The only way to have a friend is to be one.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
56. “There are friends, there is family and then there are friends that become family.” — Unknown
57. “Energies never lie.” ― Mitta Xinindlu
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Feel-Good Bonds of Friendship Quotes
58. “We are all the same and we are all different. What great friends we will be.” ― Kelly Moran
59. “Spend time with those who vibrate like you.” ― Bert McCoy
60. “A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.” — Donna Roberts
61. “A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us.” — Henry David Thoreau
62. “You simply cannot do epic things with boring people.” — Unknown
63. “Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.” ― Charles Lamb
64. “Life is kind of like a party. You invite a lot of people, and the few who stay to help you clean up the mess are the only ones who matter.” — Unknown
65. “Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.” ― Mary Wollstonecraft
66. “I love that our effortless friendship fits perfectly with my laziness.” — Unknown
67. “I feel good about life, about myself. And it’s hard not to want to be near someone who, just by their very nature, makes you feel that way too.” ― Richelle E. Goodrich
68.
To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
69. “Most of us don’t need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.” ― Robert Brault
70. “The best things in life are unexpected because there were no expectations.” — Eli Khamarov
71. “God made us friends because he knew our parents couldn’t handle us as sisters.” — Unknown
72. “As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends will never part.” ― Auliq Ice
73. “The companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.” ― Mary Shelley
74. “Do you have those friends where you can’t even remember how you became friends? You were just suddenly friends.” — Unknown
75. “Forever friends are a treasure chest of understanding and compassion. Cherish them.” ― Amy Leigh Mercree
76. “Being in a relationship, that’s something you choose. Being friends, that’s just something you are.” ― John Green
77. “The better the friend, the less cleaning you do before she comes over.” — Unknown
78. “A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.” — William Shakespeare
79. “A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.” — Arnold H. Glasgow
Short & Sweet Unexpected Friends Quotes
80. “No friendship is an accident.” ― O. Henry
81. “Friends buy you food. Best friends eat your food.” — Unknown
82. “Friendship is the wine of life.” ― Edward Young
83. “A true friend is the greatest of all blessings.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
84. “Friendship is the only flower that blooms in all seasons.” — Unknown
85. “Some souls just understand each other upon meeting.” — N.R. Hart
86. “If you have a friend, you are privileged.” ― Matshona Dhliwayo
87. “Life was meant for good friends and great adventures.” — Unknown
88. “The best mirror is an old friend.” ― George Herbert
89. “Love is blind. Friendship closes its eyes.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
90.
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
91. “Real queens fix each other’s crowns.” — Unknown
92. “True friends are never apart. Maybe in distance but never in heart.” ― Hellen Keller
93. “A life without friends is like a sky without stars.” ― Kevin Ansbro
94. “I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.” — A.A. Milne
95. “Stay close to people who feel like sunlight.” — Unknown
96. “Friendship happens when the distance between the hearts tends to zero.” ― Amit Ray
97. “The road to a friend’s house is never long.” — Danish proverb
98. “Friends are the chocolate chips in the cookie of life.” — Salman Rushdie
99. “Friendship is the mirror in which you discover yourself.” ― M. Neman
100. “I don’t care how we met, I’m just happy we did.” — Unknown
Remember These Quotes About Bonding With Friends
There’s beauty in friendships old and new, but there’s always something special about the friends you weren’t expecting.
Be sure to share these unexpected friendship quotes with the special people in your life!
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