Close friends Quote by Dalai Lama XIV

People who have at least three or four very close friendships are healthier, have higher wellbeing, and are more engaged in their jobs. But…

— Tom Rath

I hear you younger people saying how many friends they have on the Internet. That's nonsense. That's not friends, that's acquaintances. The word 'friendship'…

— Ruth Westheimer

I don't have a lot of close friends.

— Julius Peppers

Millions of years ago, our brains became wired to remember about 150 people as 'close friends.'

— Peter Diamandis

Things like Facebook have made you feel as though you're connected to everybody. You've got a thousand friends on Facebook, but you don't actually…

— Jason Reitman

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

— Thomas Fuller

I use to have lots of friends; now I have less, but much more acquaintances.

— AnaG

It's not just the number of friends you have, and it's not whether or not you're in a committed relationship. It's the quality of…

— Robert J. Waldinger

Now, the term 'friend' is a little loose. People mock the 'friending' on social media, and say, 'Gosh, no one could have 300 friends!'…

— Gretchen Rubin

Don't count the number of friends you have, but the number of friends you can count on.

— Anonymous

“Alan Loy McGinnis, author of the best-selling The Friendship Factor, says that America’s leading psychologists and therapists estimate that only 10 percent of all…

— R. Kent Hughes

I gotta tell you, I don't have many close friends, and if I do wind up making friends with somebody, it takes me a…

— Terry Zwigoff