Falling recklessly in love does not go without its consequences. However, making sacrifices for the one you love may present you some reward. These quotes about being in love with your best friend captures both sides of the spectrum.
“A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.”
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
“Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?”
“Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.”
“Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.”
“Do you have to have a reason for loving?”
“Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.”
“Falling in love is perfectly okay, but falling in love with your best friend is the most confusing thing. You want to express your feelings but still you are afraid of the outcome, because you do not want to ruin the friendship if he do not feel the same way.”
“Falling in love with someone you know very well and feel comfortable to be with is the best thing that can happen to you only if the other person feels the same for you. Otherwise it can be harder than you think.”
“Falling in love with your best friend can be the trickiest thing to do. There can be so many outcomes of the situation. But two of them are very common. You two can end up together or this can end it all. It is a matter of how you handle it.”
“Friends can understand you even when you do not say anything. So when you are in love with a true friend, you have to work real hard to hide it. So instead of conceiling it why don’t you just put it out there in the open and tell him. Who knows maybe he feel the same way too.”
“Friends in love is the best kind of love I have ever encountered.”
“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.”
“Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.”
“Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.”
“How can you be in love with someone and just be friends with him. For me it is not possible. I cannot stand watching him so close to me and yet so far enough.”
“I do not know how I do it, how I pretend to be just a friend when you are so much more to me than that.”
“I fell in love with my best friend, Now I am close to him but still far away.”
“I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.”
“I have heard people arguing if a guy or a girl can be just friends forever. I agree with the point that yes they can be friends but not forever. Because soon they will become a lover.”
“I must confess, as the experience of my own soul, that the expectation of loving my friends in heaven principally kindles my love to them while on earth.”
“It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.”
“It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.”
“It really hurts to fall in love with your bestfriend and he love someone else. whenever he talks about that person my heart nearly stops beating and the only thing I want to do is shut people out and be alone.”
“Love your friends as if they would some day hate you.”
“Loving is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction.”
“Loving someone can be hard at times. You risk a lot when you love – your heart and soul, at the least. Love is the most important and most rewarding investment you can make in another person.”
“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
“Relationships get more exciting when you are not just lovers but also best friends.”
“Sooner or later you’ve heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love.”
“Surely great loving-kindness yet may go With a little gift: all’s dear that comes from friends.”
“The best moment of your life is when you get married with your best friend.”
“The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.”
“The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.”
“The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?”
“The worst feeling is when you still fall in love with your best friend knowing you can never have him, and you cry for him every night hoping that you might get him but deep down you know that it will never happen.”
“There is no limit to the power of loving.”
“To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.”
“True friend is a great blessing; I do not see why it is not okay to fall in love with him.”
“Trust no friend without faults, and love a maiden, but no angel.”
“We always feel comfortable with the people who share same interest as you, who are much more than just ordinary people to you. This kind of people is often end up being your friend and sometimes, if fortunate enough you may end up falling in love with him.”
“When two friends fall in love with each other their lives become perfect. They fit right into each other just like the puzzle pieces fit together.”
“When you are in love with your best friends it is almost impossible to love someone else or fall out of those feelings, because that person is always too close to you, it is almost impossible not to think about him.”
“When you fall in love with your friend, have the courage to tell him how you feel. If he is truly your best friend, he will absolutely understand. And even if he do not have the same feelings for you, your friendship should stay firm and unshakable.”
“When your best friend is your lover as well, that is the most comfortable relationship ever. You can open up to him and you can be honest with him easily, you understand each other, nothing else to ask for.”
“When your love contracts in anger, the atmosphere itself feels threatening. But when you’re expansive, no matter what the weather, you’re in an open, windy field with friends.”
“Would consider him definitely one of my very best friends and I know he feels the same about me. We have a lot of love and respect.”
“You know how hard it is to be your best friend and not tell you how I feel about you because I know that your heart belongs to someone else and it can never be mine, that you can never be mine.”
“Your life gets so much easier when your lover is your best friend. You can share anything with him and can get crazy with him. You both understand each other better than anyone else out there. And you live in a self-made perfect heaven.”
There are many expectations that friends have for one another. Failing to meet a standard can sacrifice the entirety of your relationship.
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