How to Maintain a Friendship
by:vicky, Wpendy, Ben Rubenstein, Flickety

When you really build up a friendship you'll want to make sure it stays forever. So here are some tips for maintaining that relationship with your friend!

1. Appreciate your friends. Friends are like being on the toilet... you can dump on them, and everything you dump will eventually flush away.
2. Make sure it's two-sided. You don't want to be the only one trying to make the friendship work out. The other person has to do the same, or else all your work would be for nothing.
3. Show interest.Make your friend feel special. Again with the two-sided thing, it shouldn't be all about them.
4. Have fun together.
5. Trust each other.Make sure you are both keeping your promises. Try not to gossip about and backstab this friend.
6. Cry together. Be there for your friend, and if they feel the same way about you, they will be there for you.
7. Support each other through good times and bad. Even if they aren't very popular, stick by their side. They will truly appreciate that.
8. Understand that in every friendship there will be arguments. But it doesn't mean that the friendship is over.
9. Keep in touch. This applies especially if your friend lives far away.
10. Be happy every times.
11. Be respect to your friends

• When you have an argument, don't fight or insult each other; just talk about it!
• Always have patience in your friend's fault,it takes time to do the right thing.
• A true friendship is something that can stand the test of time. Simply because you haven't spoken or met your friend in years, does not mean that you are friends no longer.

• When you start a friendship, see if he or she can be trusted.
• Don't try to change the other person.
• Be nice and don't hurt each others feelings.
• Know when to leave a friendship. Sometimes, two people just cannot be together.

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The most important thing in life is friendship, most of the quotes in our world surrounds by this topic.

Friendship Quotes - A good friend is someone we can count on, as well as being so much more. A friend is someone with whom we can relax and just hang out, have fun and share our innermost thoughts, deep dark secrets, lofty and noble goals, or our hopes, joys, and fears.

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Side by side or miles apart, dear friends are always close to the heart.

If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them.

The greatest love a person can have for his friends is to give his life for them.

Treat spring just as you would a friend you have not learned to trust.

My friends are my real estate.

Friends are special, treasure them.

Let you friend know that you care for, understand and love him or her.

Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say.

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.

The best memories are the ones you can't explain and end up saying, "You just had to be there."

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved."

Friends are like melons. You may try fifty before you find a good one.

"If I had one wish this is what it would be, I'd ask you to spend all your time with me, we'd be together forever.."

"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud."

A good friend allows you a safe space to share your deepest thoughts and needs without worry of being judged, criticized or made to feel silly for feeling the way you do. Friends cheer each other on, laugh and cry together, and just plain commiserate and listen to each other.

That's why friends are friends....

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.