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60 Rebuild Friendship Quotes To Help You Move Forward


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Whatever happened between you and your friend, you’ve both reached a point of understanding where you want to truly mend things and try again. You’re just not 100% sure how to start. These Rebuild Friendship quotes exist to help you find some starting points.

No one ever taught us how to repair friendships, right? All the advice out there on friends tends to focus on acquiring new friendships and then maintaining them. There’s love still there between the pair of you. You’re wanting to get passed the bruises and arrive at a clean state where you can start over.

It’s tough finding the right actions in rebuilding friendship. Quotes, however, can stir the heart, where logic be might unable to, and perhaps through these stirrings you can find the course that suits you.

Rebuild Friendship Quotes: Reflection

When you’re in a place of broken ties, it can be hard to get passed the anger between you both and get back to your senses. It’s also easy to forget what friends are is supposed when rebuilding friendship. The quotes below are a gentle reminder.

“True friendship is like a rose: we don’t realize its beauty under it fades.” – Evelyn Loeb

“A friend is someone who makes it easy to believe in yourself.” – Heidi Wills

“The only thing sweeter than union is reunion.” – Kathleen McGowan

“You don’t know who is important to you until you actually lose them.” —Mahatma Gandhi

“In my friend, I find a second self.” – Isabel Norton

“Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.” – John Lennon

“Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.” – Aesop

“Friendship is delicate as a glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks.” – Waqar Ahmed

“To lose a friend is the greatest of all losses.” —Publilius Syrus

“Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives.” – Alexandre Dumas

“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.” – Dalai Lama XIV

“Some people aren’t loyal to you. They are loyal to their needs of you. Once their needs change, so does their loyalty.” —Alvis Corea

“Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled.” – Ally Condie

“My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you’re most ashamed of.” – Jodie Foster

“We can’t feel the loss of a friend until they are apart from us.” – Debolina

“Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?” – Richard Bach

“A friendship that can cease has never been real.” – St. Jerome

“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” – Khalil Gibran

“One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.” – Mindy Kaling

“A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!” – Doug Larson

“In my friend, I find a second self.” – Isabel Norton

“Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.” – John Lennon

“Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.” – Aesop

Rebuild Friendship Quotes: The Key Step

You’ve both already got passed the initial unease, just by the fact you’ve come together after a period apart. You’ve said your apologies, but there’s one more action to take before you can both genuinely come together again: forgiveness. Which can be hard to do when rebuilding friendship. The quotes here can help you do that.

“Friendship must never be buried under the weight of misunderstanding.” – Sri Chinmoy

“Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.” – Harville Hendrix

“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.” – William Blake

“If friends disappoint you over and over, that’s in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need to recognize that and take care of yourself; people aren’t going to change simply because you want them to.” – Oprah Winfrey

“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.” – Charles Dickens

“Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.” – Norman Vincent Peale

“It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.” – Confucius

“Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other’s little failings.” – Jean De La Bruyere

“Quarrel with a friend – and you are both wrong.” – Lao Tzu

“The story of love is hello and goodbye… until we meet again.” – Jimi Hendrix

“You really can’t fix someone else, but that doesn’t take your power away. You have the power to fix yourself and that eventually fixes everything.” – Jennifer Kruse

“Every long separation is a test: A test to see how powerful or how weak the will of reuniting us!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.” – Robert Brault

“Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“You’ll know when a relationship is right for you. It will enhance your life, not complicate it.” – Brigitte Nicole

“Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.” – James Francis Byrnes

“Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a commitment. It is a choice to show mercy, not to hold the offense up against the offender. Forgiveness is an expression of love.” – Dr. Gary Chapman

“Trouble is part of your life, and if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.” – Dinah Shore

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” – Carl Jung

Rebuild Friendship Quotes: The Future

Becoming friends again, when you’ve had hurt between you, takes a lot of courage and humility. You both clearly recognise the bonds that exists between the both of you is still there. The trust you had might have to be re-earned again and it can happen, in time.

You can’t rest on your laurels when rebuilding friendship. Quotes like these below are reminder of the work you will both need to take together to move forward and build a new future as renewed friends.

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” – Marcus Aurelius

“True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.” – Charles Caleb Colton

“Try being good to each other, it just might fix the issues in your relationship!” – Prakhar Sahay

“If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends – you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.” – Alice Duer Miller

“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.” – Alice Walker

“Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.” – Francesco Guicciardini

“If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm.” – Warren W. Wiersbe

“Hearts live by being wounded.” – Oscar Wilde

“There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.” – Buddha

“Healthy relationships… Let’s not forget it’s you and me vs. the problem… Not you vs. me.” – Steve Maraboli

“We all lose friends…we lose them in death, to distance and over time. But even though they may be lost, hope is not. The key is to keep them in your heart, and when the time is right, you can pick up the friendship right where you left off. Even the lost find their way home when you leave the light on.” – Amy Marie Walz

“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

“There cannot be friendship without equality.” – Swami Vivekananda

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What comes easy won’t last long, and what lasts long won’t come easy.” – Francis Kong

“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.” – Elie Wiesel

“You never fail until you stop trying.” – Albert Einstein

“50% of a great relationship is how you treat someone. The other 50% is having the ability and confidence to communicate the treatment you want in return.” – Matthew Hussey

“There is no remedy for love, but to love more.” – Henry David Thoreau

Getting back together with your friend has taken a lot of courage and hard moments to do. You’ve both had to get passed your hurt egos and differences, the question is what’s next in helping you get back to your senses and the bond you know exists between you. These Rebuild Friendship quotes can hopefully help you find the actions you need to take.

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