Inspirational Friendship Quotes: A Heartwarming Collection to Celebrate True Bonds

### Discover the Power of Friendship Through Words Friendship is one of life's most precious gifts, a bond that enriches our journey and uplifts our spirits. This curated collection of inspirational friendship quotes brings together timeless wisdom and heartfelt expressions from renowned thinkers, writers, and personalities. Each quote captures the essence of true friendship — its joys, challenges, and enduring beauty. ### Why These Quotes Matter Whether you're seeking encouragement, reflection, or a way to express your appreciation for a dear friend, these quotes offer profound insights. They remind us that friendship is about understanding, support, and shared experiences that shape who we are. From Aristotle's view of friendship as "a single soul dwelling in two bodies" to Oprah Winfrey's emphasis on loyalty, these words inspire us to cherish and nurture our relationships. ### Embrace Friendship Every Day Dive into this collection to find the perfect quote that resonates with your heart. Share them with friends, use them as daily affirmations, or simply let them remind you of the invaluable role friends play in our lives. Celebrate friendship today and every day with these inspirational words that speak to the soul.

Wisdom from the Masters

"The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing…not healing, not curing…that is a friend who cares."

- Henri Nouwen

Relationships

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."

- Anais Nin

Transformation

"If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart. I’ll stay there forever."

- Winnie the Pooh

Love

"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."

- Helen Keller

Courage

"For it would then be true friendship, such as no hope, no fear, no self-interest can sever. That is a friendship that stays with people until they die—and that people die for."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Compassion

"If you live to be a 100, I want to live to be 100 minus one day so I never have to live without you."

- Winnie the Pooh

Love

"I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than walk alone in the light."

- Helen Keller

Courage

"The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Integrity

"In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit."

- Albert Schweitzer

Relationships

"If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you."

- Winnie the Pooh

Love

"And what is a friend? More than a father, more than a brother: a traveling companion, with him, you can conquer the impossible, even if you must lose it later. Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing."

- Elie Wiesel

Compassion

"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you."

- A. A. Milne, "Winnie the Pooh"

Love

"Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing."

- Elie Wiesel

Love

"Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead Walk beside me… just be my friend"

- Albert Camus

Connection to Earth

"The only way to have a friend is to be one."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Connection to Earth

"I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light."

- Helen Keller

Courage

"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship."

- Thomas Aquinas

Connection to Earth

"A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow."

- William Shakespeare

Relationships

"Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world."

- John Evelyn

Relationships

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."

- Elbert Hubbard

Compassion

"A good friend is like a four-leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have."

- Irish Proverb

Gratitude

"Friendship is the sweetest influence."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Influence

"A friend is a gift you give yourself."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Connection to Earth

"Friendship is a sheltering tree."

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Well-being

"Friendship is love without wings."

- George Gordon Byron

Love

"We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Belief

"When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable."

- Jess C. Scott

Love

"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings."

- François de La Rochefoucauld

Relationships

"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Relationships

"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost."

- Charles Caleb Colton

Awareness

"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Belief

"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed."

- Khalil Gibran

Relationships

"To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world."

- Dr. Seuss

Connection to Earth

"A friend is one of the best things you can be and the greatest things you can have."

- Sarah Valdez

Relationships

"Time doesn’t take away from friendship, nor does separation."

- Tennessee Williams

Resilience

"There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met."

- Jim Henson

Connection to Earth

"A single rose can be my garden…a single friend, my world."

- Leo Buscaglia

Love

"Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer."

- Ed Cunningham

Relationships

"It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."

- Marlene Dietrich

Connection to Earth

"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget."

- G. Randolf

Relationships

"True friends are never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart."

- Helen Keller

Relationships

"True friends are like diamonds — bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style."

- Nicole Richie

Connection to Earth

"Friends are the family you choose."

- Jess C. Scott

Relationships

"Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you."

- Misty Copeland

Empowerment

"A sweet friendship refreshes the soul."

- Proverbs 27:9

Healing

"A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down."

- Arnold H. Glasgow

Relationships

"A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably."

- William Penn

Love

"A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else."

- Len Wein

Love

"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."

- Marlene Dietrich

Relationships

"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."

- Alice Walker

Growth

"She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind."

- Toni Morrison

Love

"Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer."

- Jean de la Fontaine

Relationships

"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over."

- Octavia E. Butler

Wisdom

"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"

- Abraham Lincoln

Relationships

"The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares."

- Henri Nouwen

Compassion

"Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."

- Muhammad Ali

Learning

"A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself."

- Jim Morrison

Belief in Self

"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed."

- Khalil Gibran

Connection to Earth

"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Relationships

"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love

"Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself ...""

- C.S. Lewis

Connection to Earth

"The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for."

- Bob Marley

Love

"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature."

- Jane Austen

Love

"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever."

- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Love

"Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies."

- Aristotle

Relationships

"Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh!" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you."

- A.A. Milne

Love

"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares."

- Henri Nouwen

Compassion

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival."

- C.S. Lewis

Philosophy

"I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff."

- Jon Katz

Persistence

"A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself."

- Frank Crane

Relationships

"In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends."

- John Churton Collins

Adversity

"Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Happiness

"A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world."

- Leo Buscaglia

Love

"Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer."

- Ed Cunningham

Empathy

"Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation."

- Tennessee Williams

Relationships

"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends leave footprints in your heart."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Connection to Earth

"True friendship resists time, distance and silence."

- Isabel Allende

Relationships

"Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams."

- Henry David Thoreau

Compassion

"I'm so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much."

- L.M. Montgomery

Gratitude

"A good friend is a connection to life – a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world."

- Lois Wyse

Connection to Earth

"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."

- Muhammad Ali

Relationships

"Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up."

- Thomas J. Watson

Ambition

"The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart."

- Elisabeth Foley

Relationships

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."

- Anais Nin

Connection to Earth

"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose."

- Tennessee Williams

Choice

"They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel."

- Carl W. Buechner

Education

"Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life."

- Amy Poehler

Motivation

"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone."

- Audrey Hepburn

Compassion

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart."

- Helen Keller

Love

"Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light."

- Albus Dumbledore

Happiness

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."

- Walter Winchell

Relationships

"Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that."

- Ally Condie

Growth

"Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."

- Marcel Proust

Gratitude

"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."

- Oprah Winfrey

Love

"False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports."

- Richard Burton

Resilience

"My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake."

- Aristotle

Connection to Earth

"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."

- Henry Ford

Relationships

"Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare — and precious as a pearl."

- Tahar Ben Jelloun

Connection to Earth

"But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine."

- Thomas Jefferson

Relationships

"There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Gratitude

"Never let your best friends get lonely…keep disturbing them."

- Candlelight Publications

Connection to Earth

"The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another’s little lapses."

- David Storey

Compassion

"A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself."

- Frances Ward Weller

Relationships

"Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."

- Albert Camus

Relationships

"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity."

- Khalil Gibran

Responsibility

"Friends…they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams."

- Henry David Thoreau

Relationships

"Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled."

- Ally Condie

Relationships

"You don't have to have anything in common with people you've known since you were five. With old friends, you've got your whole life in common."

- Lyle Lovett

Relationships

"How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em."

- Shel Silverstein

Compassion

"A true friend is for ever a friend."

- George MacDonald

Relationships

"Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years."

- Richard Bach

Relationships

"True friendship is when two friends can walk in opposite directions, yet remain side by side."

- Josh Grayson

Relationships

"True friendship is a plant of slow growth…"

- George Washington

Growth

"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by, the doubling of our joy, and diving of our grief;"

- Joseph Addison

Happiness

"A good friend is a connection to life — a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world."

- Lois Wyse

Relationships

"My old grandmother always used to say, summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever."

- George R.R. Martin

Relationships

"I always say, Lorelei Lee got it wrong in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. It's not that diamonds are a girl's best friend, but it's your best friends who are your diamonds. It's your best friends who are supremely resilient, made under pressure, and of astonishing value. They're everlasting; they can cut glass if they need to."

- Gina Barreca

Ambition

"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends."

- Virginia Woolf

Relationships

"What I realize now in hindsight is that there is a natural ebb and flow to friendships. There are times you think there's nothing left between you, that you've hit the bottom, but the special ones survive, find ways of restoring themselves."

- Colette McBeth

Growth

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."

- Marcel Proust

Gratitude

"There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met."

- William Butler Yeats

Optimism

"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit."

- Albert Schweitzer

Gratitude

"A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world."

- Leo Buscaglia

Love

"Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends."

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Gratitude

"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."

- Euripides

Belief

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."

- C. S. Lewis

Philosophy

"True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing."

- Baltasar Gracian

Gratitude

"As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend."

- King Solomon

Growth

"The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity."

- Ulysses S. Grant

Relationships

"A friend is what the heart needs all the time."

- Henry Van Dyke

Relationships

"A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth."

- Charles Darwin

Self-awareness

"I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun."

- Charles R. Swindoll

Joy

"The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend."

- Henry David Thoreau

Service

"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."

- Socrates

Persistence

"It takes a long time to grow an old friend."

- John Leonard

Growth

"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help."

- Epicurus

Connection to Earth

"If you are ever lucky enough to find a weirdo, never let them go."

- Matthew Gray Gubler

Connection to Earth

"She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order."

- Toni Morrison

Connection to Earth

"Love is friendship set on fire."

- Jeremy Taylor

Love

"Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they’re trying to find someone who’s going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take."

- Anthony Robbins

Connection to Earth

"The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life."

- Chelsea Handler

Relationships

"Friendship is accepting a person with all their qualities — good and bad."

- Mohanlal

Connection to Earth

"Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship."

- Marilyn Monroe

Connection to Earth

"A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face."

- Maya Angelou

Connection to Earth

"Everyone you meet knows something you don’t know but need to know. Learn from them."

- C.G. Jung

Learning

"Don’t be afraid of new beginnings. Don’t shy away from new people, new energy, new surroundings. Embrace new chances at happiness."

- Billy Chapata

New Beginnings

"Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you."

- Kate DiCamillo

Personal Growth

"Be genuinely interested in everyone you meet and everyone you meet will be genuinely interested in you."

- Rasheed Ogunlaru

Empowerment

"Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them."

- Francesco Guicciardini

Connection to Earth

"Every new friend is a new adventure… the start of more memories."

- Patrick Lindsay

New Beginnings

"The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy to your soul."

- Shanna Rodriguez

Connection to Earth

"The kindest way of helping yourself is to find a friend."

- Ann Kaiser Stearns

Connection to Earth

"Getting to know new people and gaining new friends is one of life’s greatest pleasures. So conquer your fears and get out there."

- Tony Clark

Connection to Earth

"There are friendships imprinted in our hearts that will never be diminished by time and distance."

- Dodinsky

Relationships

"No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth."

- Robert Southey

Resilience

"There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound."

- Diana Cortes

Connection to Earth

"A real friendship should not fade as time passes, and should not weaken because of space separation."

- John Newton

Resilience

"Distance means so little, when someone means so much."

- Tom McNeal

Family

"As long as we share the same sky and breathe the same air, we’re still together."

- Donna Lynn Hope

Connection to Earth

"A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand."

- Kahlil Gibran

Connection to Earth

"Can miles truly separate you from friends…If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?"

- Richard Bach

Connection to Earth

"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Relationships

"A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have."

- Irish Proverb

Relationships

"The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it."

- Hubert H. Humphrey

Relationships

"True friends are like diamonds, precious and rare. Fake friends are like autumn leaves, found everywhere."

- Ari Joseph

Belief

"To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away."

- Sophocles

Belief

"Friendship is born at the moment when one says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’"

- C.S. Lewis

Connection to Earth

"Friend is someone to share the last cookie with."

- Cookie Monster

Generosity

"If you can survive 11 days in cramped quarters with a friend and come out laughing, your friendship is the real deal."

- Oprah Winfrey

Relationships

"Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher."

- Oprah

Connection to Earth

"I think if I’ve learned anything about friendship, it’s to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don’t walk away, don’t be distracted, don’t be too busy or tired, don’t take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff."

- Jon Katz

Resilience

"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Relationships

"There’s nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing."

- Jennifer Aniston

Relationships

"A friend knows the song in my heart and signs it to me when my memory fails."

- Donna Roberts

Relationships

"We’re sisters; you’re my family. What is you, is me. There’s nothing that you could ever say to make me let go."

- Blair Waldorf

Family

"Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life—and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next."

- Dean Koontz

Relationships

"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."

- Jane Austen

Love

"When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we know."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Belief

"Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled."

- Ally Condie

Relationships

"Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read."

- Francis Bacon

Relationships

"You don’t have to have anything in common with people you’ve known since you were five. With old friends, you’ve got your whole life in common."

- Lyle Lovett

Relationships

"Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold."

- Joseph Parry

Relationships

"We didn’t realize we were making memories. We just knew we were having fun."

- Winnie the Pooh

Joy

"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit."

- Aristotle

Growth

"True friendship resists time, distance, and silence."

- Isabel Allende

Resilience

"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same."

- Elbert Hubbard

Love

"Friendships between women, as many women will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses…swapped back and forth and over again."

- Michelle Obama

Compassion

"There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort."

- Charlotte Brontë

Love

"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is no time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over."

- Octavia Butler

Relationships

"A good friend is a connection to life—a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world."

- Lois Wyse

Relationships

"That’s when I realized what a true friend was. Someone who would always love you—the imperfect you, the confused you, the wrong you—because that is what people are supposed to do."

- R. J. L.

Relationships

"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."

- Aristotle

Relationships

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival."

- C.S. Lewis

Philosophy

"Share your smile with the world. It’s a symbol of friendship and peace."

- Christie Brinkley

Positivity

"Don’t make friends who you are comfortable with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up."

- Thomas J. Watson

Motivation

"I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun."

- Charles R. Swindoll

Gratitude

"A friend is someone who makes it easy to believe in yourself."

- Heidi Wills

Empowerment

"Women’s friendships are like a renewable source of power."

- Jane Fonda

Empowerment

"The truth of the matter is, no matter how lonely you might feel, you’re never going through anything alone. You can choose your family."

- Jennifer Lopez

Belief

"I get by with a little help from my friends."

- Ice Cube

Connection to Earth

"Close friends are truly life’s treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone."

- Vincent Van Gogh

Relationships

"The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?"

- Eugene Kennedy

Relationships

"If you have one true friend you have more than your share."

- Thomas Fuller

Relationships

"One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about."

- Mindy Kaling

Relationships

"Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend."

- Bill Watterson

Courage

"Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them."

- Anna Taylor

Relationships

"I can’t believe I’ve known you for 20 years and you’re still my favorite person to talk to."

- Jess Day

Gratitude

"Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud."

- Maya Angelou

Motivation

"There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you."

- Paramahansa Yogananda

Relationships

"’Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his."

- Benjamin Franklin

Relationships

"We didn’t talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together, and that was enough."

- Stephen Chbosky

Contentment

"How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live ‘em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give ‘em."

- Shel Silverstein

Gratitude

"Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend."

- Bill Watterson

Relationships

"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."

- Muhammad Ali

Wisdom

"A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside."

- Winnie the Pooh

Contentment

"The most important discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart."

- Elisabeth Foley

Personal Growth

"I don't know what I would have done so many times in my life if I hadn't had my girlfriends. They have literally gotten me up out of bed, taken my clothes off, put me in the shower, dressed me, said, 'Hey, you can do this,' put my high heels on and pushed me out the door!"

- Reese Witherspoon

Empowerment

"I still have friends from primary school. And my two best girlfriends are from secondary school. I don't have to explain anything to them. I don't have to apologize for anything. They know. There's no judgment in any way."

- Emma Watson

Relationships

"Life is an ugly, awful place to not have a best friend."

- Sarah Dessen

Adversity

"One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about. We never needed best friend gear because I guess with real friends you don't have to make it official. It just is."

- Mindy Kaling

Connection to Earth

"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough."

- Walt Whitman

Contentment

"Friendship is a sheltering tree;"

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Compassion

"It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them."

- Confucius

Relationships

"Friendship's the wine of life."

- Edward Young

Relationships

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence."

- George Washington

Self-confidence

"It’s not that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but it’s your best friends who are your diamonds."

- Gina Barreca

Love

"Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go."

- Margaret Walker

Morality

"Remember that life's most valuable antiques are dear old friends."

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Relationships

"That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart."

- Kristin Hannah

Relationships

"The best mirror is an old friend."

- George Herbert

Relationships

"Words are easy, like the wind; faithful friends are hard to find."

- William Shakespeare

Wisdom

"Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway."

- Elbert Hubbard

Honesty

"If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky."

- S.E. Hinton

Connection to Earth

"A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked."

- Bernard Meltzer

Relationships

"A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out."

- Shannon I. Adler

Bravery

"A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails."

- Donna Roberts

Connection to Earth

"Friendship is a wildly underrated medication."

- Anna Deavere Smith

Healing

"My friends are my estate."

- Emily Dickinson

Gratitude

"Friends are the siblings God never gave us."

- Mencius

Family

"Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected."

- C.J. Langenhoven

Choice

"There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy."

- Henry Ford

Relationships

"True friendship is a plant of slow growth."

- George Washington

Growth

"Friendship is the wine of life."

- Edward Young

Happiness

"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice."

- Ben Jonson

Wisdom

"A friend is one who walks in when others walk out."

- Walter Winchell

Connection to Earth

"'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected."

- Charles Lamb

Compassion

"You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together."

- Nicholas Sparks

Love

"I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better."

- Plutarch

Belief

"Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love."

- Mandy Hale

Love

"There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate."

- Linda Grayson

Relationships

"A friend to all is a friend to none."

- Aristotle

Relationships

"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave and impossible to forget."

- G. Randolf

Relationships

"The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship."

- William Blake

Philosophy

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Love

"Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing."

- E.B. White

Gratitude

"When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands."

- Maria Shriver

Relationships

"I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing."

- Katherine Mansfield

Inner Peace

"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."

- Mark Twain

Contentment

"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together."

- Woodrow Wilson

Relationships

"Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with."

- Gillian Anderson

Relationships

"No road is long with good company."

- Turkish proverb

Love

"You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes."

- A.A. Milne

Taking Risks

"Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it."

- Sarah Addison Allen

Hope

"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship."

- John D. Rockefeller

Wisdom

"You know what sucks about getting older? Your friends have known you for way too long. They’ve got too much on you."

- Nick Miller

Belief

"There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends."

- Sylvia Plath

Relationships

"She’s my friend because we both know what it’s like to have people be jealous of us."

- Cher

Belief

"Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell."

- Emily Dickinson

Belief

"There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth."

- Chanakya

Awareness

"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself."

- Josh Billings

Love

"Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment."

- Haruki Murakami

Adversity

Bite-sized Inspirational Quotes

"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand."

Compassion

"Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend."

Adversity

"True friends aren’t the ones who make your problems disappear. They are the ones who won’t disappear when you’re facing problems."

Resilience

"Best friends understand when you say, ‘forget it.’ Wait forever when you say, ‘just a minute.’ Stay when you say, ‘leave me alone.’ And open the door before you can say, ‘come in.’"

Connection to Earth

"When it hurts to look back and you’re afraid to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there."

Resilience

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

Empathy

"A strong friendship doesn’t need daily conversation or being together. As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends never part."

Resilience

"A best friend us someone who makes you laugh even when you think you'll never smile again."

- Unknown

Joy

"Best friends are the people in your life who make you laugh louder, smile brighter, and live better."

Happiness

"Good friends are like stars. You don't always see them, but you know they're always there."

Well-being

"Of all possessions a friend is the most precious."

Relationships

"Awards become corroded. Friends gather no dust."

Relationships

"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil."

Relationships

"True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable."

Connection to Earth

"One good friendship will outlive forty average loves."

Relationships

"To friendship every burden's light."

Relationships

"No friendship is an accident."

Relationships

"A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden."

Compassion

"True friends are always together in spirit."

Relationships

"True friends are great riches."

Well-being

"There's not a word yet for old friends who've just met."

Relationships

"Best friends are the people in your life who make you laugh louder, smile brighter and live better."

Happiness

"We weren’t sisters [or brothers] by birth, but we knew from the start…fate brought us together to be sisters [or brothers] by heart."

Connection to Earth

"Life was meant for good friends and great adventures."

Aspirations

"A friend who understands your tears is much more valuable than a lot of friends who only know your smile."

Empathy

"Best friend: the one that you can be mad at only for a short period of time because you have important stuff to tell them."

Connection to Earth

"You don’t have to be crazy to be my friend. I’ll train you."

Connection to Earth

"It’s not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters."

Connection to Earth

"A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are."

Connection to Earth

"Best friends don’t care if your house is clean. They care if you have wine."

Connection to Earth

"Best friends. Because if anyone else heard our conversations we’d end up in the mental hospital."

Connection to Earth

"Sometimes being with your best friend is all the therapy you need."

Healing

"A best friend is someone who makes you laugh even when you think you’ll never smile again."

Happiness

"Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there."

- Unknown

Connection to Earth

"A part of you has grown in me, together forever we shall be, never apart, maybe in distance, but not in heart."

Love

"God made us best friends because he knew our moms couldn’t handle us as sisters."

Family

"In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips."

Belief

"I love that our effortless friendship fits perfectly with my laziness."

Connection to Earth

"It’s not being in love that makes me happy. It is the person that I am in love with that does."

Love

"Friends buy you food. Best friends eat your food."

Connection to Earth

"We’ll be best friends forever because you already know too much."

Connection to Earth

"A strong friendship doesn’t need daily conversation, doesn’t always need togetherness, as long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends will never part."

Resilience

"True friendship is when you walk into their house and your WiFi connects automatically."

Connection to Earth

"It’s hard to find a friend who’s cute, loving, generous, caring, and smart. My advice to y’all is, don’t lose me."

Connection to Earth

"We’ll be the old ladies causing trouble in the nursing home."

Connection to Earth

"Throughout life you will meet one person who is like no other. You could talk to this person for hours and never get bored, you could tell this person things and they will never judge you. This person is your soulmate, your best friend. Don’t ever let them go."

Love

"Friendship is so weird…you just pick a human you’ve met and you’re like ‘Yep, I like this one’ and you just do stuff with them."

Connection to Earth

"I think we’ll be friends forever because we’re too lazy to find new friends."

Connection to Earth