14 Funny Quotes About Friendship
What is true friendship?
From the moment you’re born, you’re instinctively reaching out to forge relationships—first with family, a little later with friends. Healthy friendships not only help you live longer, but also to enjoy a happier, healthier, and more productive life along the way, as a PLoS Medicine meta-analysis review of 148 studies with over 300,000 people suggests. “As humans, we’re social by nature. Healthy friendships improve mental and emotional functioning and make stressful situations seem less so,” says Melanie Shmois, a cognitive-behavioral therapist at Mind Your Strength Coaching in Avon Lake, Ohio.
It’s not just that friends help you through important milestones and provide support when you need it. It’s also that “we can practice being vulnerable and learn to express our desires with others outside our immediate family,” Shmois suggests. And that practice is essential for helping you hone the skills you need as you grow up, work, and create new families.
True friendship is mutually beneficial—a win-win situation, or as the modern philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson put it so astutely in his book of Essays and Lectures “to have a friend is to be one.” While it’s not exactly a funny friendship quote, it’s interesting when you consider it’s as true today as it was in 1841, when Emerson first put it down on paper.
Take the time to think about your friendships, like the endless inside jokes you have with your best friend, with these funny friendship quotes. Feel free to share them with your near and dear ones to let them know you’re thinking about them.
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