--- title: "8 Lives Friends Quotes by 8 authors" description: "Browse 8 Lives Friends quotes by 8 authors. Discover the best Lives Friends sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d5e/john-m-simmons-65243_best-friend_friends-come-into-our-lives-and-friends_28656.jpg" --- > [“Friends come into our lives and friends leave our lives. But friends never leave our hearts. And best friends always get to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-m-simmons/friends-come-into-our-lives-and-friends-leave-our-lives-but-friends/) [John M. Simmons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-m-simmons/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d5e/john-m-simmons-65243_best-friend_friends-come-into-our-lives-and-friends_28656.jpg) > [Safety, reputation, their lives, their friends, and their world. Writers typically try to avoid that because it's not expedient.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-bollen/safety-reputation-their-lives-their-friends-and-their-world-writers/) [Christopher Bollen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-bollen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/054/christopher-bollen-9436_reputation_safety-reputation-their-lives-their-frie_89575.jpg) > [“sixty years old and lives for the 3 f's--friends, family, and France.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jamie-ivey/sixty-years-old-and-lives-for-the-3-f-s-friends-family-and-france/) [Jamie Ivey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jamie-ivey/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/017/jamie-ivey-87134_extremely_sixty-years-old-and-lives-for-the-3-f-s_277317.jpg) > [I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-muir/i-am-learning-to-live-close-to-the-lives-of-my-friends-without-ever/) [John Muir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-muir/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b6/john-muir-678_friends_i-am-learning-to-live-close-to-the-lives_878565.png) > [Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emil-ludwig/many-a-person-has-held-close-throughout-their-entire-lives-two/) [Emil Ludwig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emil-ludwig/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c85/emil-ludwig-44197_friendship_many-a-person-has-held-close-throughout_916482.jpg) > [God often works through the people we have in our lives. So who are your friends? What kind of friend are you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/god-often-works-through-the-people-we-have-in-our-lives-so-who-are/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e3/anonymous-1_friendship_god-often-works-through-the-people-we-ha_1234868.jpg) > [“A friend of a friend . . ." Have you ever noticed that our friends' friends have much more interesting lives than our friends themselves?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chip-heath/a-friend-of-a-friend-have-you-ever-noticed-that-our-friends-friends/) [Chip Heath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chip-heath/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c8/chip-heath-4065_friend_a-friend-of-a-friend-have-you-ever-notic_1745872.png) > [“There is something cathartic about what has happened to me during this stay in hospital. I’ve heard others say that coming face…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-menadue/there-is-something-cathartic-about-what-has-happened-to-me-during/) [David Menadue](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-menadue/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8d4/david-menadue-231400_face-to-face_there-is-something-cathartic-about-what_2752704.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lives-friends/#itemlist", "name": "Lives Friends Quotes", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Friends come into our lives and friends leave our lives. But friends never leave our hearts. And best friends always get to stay in the best places in our hearts.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "John M. 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