100+ Inspirational Quotes for a Friend: Celebrate the Power of Friendship

"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"

"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

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"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

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

- Heidi Wills

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"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

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

- Elbert Hubbard

"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

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Sarah Valdez

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

- Tennessee Williams

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

- Maria Shriver

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

- Leo Buscaglia

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

- Woodrow Wilson

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

- Ed Cunningham

"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

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

- Elisabeth Foley

"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

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

- Tennessee Williams

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

- Carl W. Buechner

"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

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Marcel Proust

"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

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

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- G. Randolf

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

- Irish proverb

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

"Friends are the siblings God never gave us."

- Mencius

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

- Thomas Aquinas

"Friends are the family you choose."

- Jess C. Scott

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

- Misty Copeland

"A sweet friendship refreshes the soul."

- Proverbs 27:9

"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

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

- Frances Ward Weller

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

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Aristotle

"If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together…there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think but the most important thing is, even if we’re apart… I’ll always be with you."

- Winnie the Pooh

"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

"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

"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

"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

"Love is friendship set on fire."

- Jeremy Taylor

"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

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

- Chelsea Handler

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

- Mohanlal

"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

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

- Kate DiCamillo

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

- Dodinsky

"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

"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

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

- John Newton

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

- Tom McNeal

"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

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

- Donna Lynn Hope

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

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- Richard Bach

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

- Oprah

"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

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

- Jennifer Aniston

"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

"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

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

- Joseph Parry

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

- Winnie the Pooh

"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

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

- Winnie the Pooh

"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

"Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious."

- Thomas Aquinas

"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

"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.

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

- Thomas J. Watson

"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

"Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another."

- Eustace Budgell

"Friends are people who know you really well and like you anyway."

- Greg Tamblyn

"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

"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

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

- Thomas Fuller

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

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

- Maya Angelou

"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

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

- François de La Rochefoucauld

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

- Elbert Hubbard

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

- Marcel Proust

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

- Helen Keller

"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."

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- Hubert H. Humphrey

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

- Jim Morrison

"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

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

- Bill Watterson

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Walter Winchell

"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

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

- Aristotle

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

- Henry van Dyke

"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

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

- Jean de La Fontaine

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

- Alice Walker

"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

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

- Len Wein

"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

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

- Elie Wiesel

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Tahar Ben Jelloun

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

- King Solomon

"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

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

- Leo Buscaglia

"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."

- Euripides

"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.

"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

"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

"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

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

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"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

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

- Jess C. Scott

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

- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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

- Bob Marley

"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

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Kristin Hannah

"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

"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

"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

"[The greatest gift in life] is the gift of friendship, and I have received it; the greatest healing therapy is friendship."

- Hubert Humphrey

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

- Socrates

"Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one."

- Robert E. Lee

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

- Albus Dumbledore

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

- Walt Whitman

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

- William Butler Yeats

"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

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

- Patrick Lindsay

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

- Shanna Rodriguez

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

- Ann Kaiser Stearns

"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

"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

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

- Thomas J. Watson

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

- Charles Darwin

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

- Benjamin Franklin

"Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same."

- Arthur Conan Doyle

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

- Marlene Dietrich

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

- Francesco Guicciardini

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

- Donna Roberts

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

- Nicole Richie

"The best mirror is an old friend."

- George Herbert

"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

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

- Charles Lamb

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

- Arnold H. Glasgow

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

- Matthew Gray Gubler

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

- David Storey

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

- Donna Roberts

"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

"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

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

- Jim Henson

"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

"Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation."

- Oscar Wilde

"A friend is a gift you give yourself."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"The language of friendship is not words but meanings."

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Christie Brinkley

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

- John Leonard

"You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job."

- Laurence J. Peter

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- C.G. Jung

"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

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

- Rasheed Ogunlaru

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

- Irish proverb

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Aristotle

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

- Confucius

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

- Plutarch

"True friendship is a plant of slow growth."

- George Washington

"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

"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

"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

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- George Washington

"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

"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

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

- Margaret Walker

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

- Epicurus

"Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart."

- Washington Irving

"There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature."

- P.G. Wodehouse

"Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies."

- Richelle Mead

"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

"Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes."

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- John Evelyn

"Friendship is a sheltering tree."

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"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

"No road is long with good company."

- Turkish Proverb

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

- Bernard Meltzer

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Linda Grayson

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

- William Blake

"Friendship is the sweetest influence."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Elbert Hubbard

"My friends are my estate."

- Emily Dickinson

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

- Charles Caleb Colton

"It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?""

- A. A. Milne

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

- Chanakya

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

- Virginia Woolf

"True friendship is a plant of slow growth…"

- George Washington

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

- Josh Grayson

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

- John D. Rockefeller

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

- Joseph Addison

"Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure."

- Stephen King

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about."

- Rumi

"Friendship's the wine of life."

- Edward Young

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

- Aristotle

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

- Candlelight Publications

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

- Sylvia Plath

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

- Cookie Monster

"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."

"Best friends share laughs, memories and inside jokes. They will always be honest and stand by your side no matter what. They wipe your tears, pick you up when you fall, and are forever a piece of your heart."

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

"True friends are always together in spirit."

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

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

"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.’"

"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."

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

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

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

"Everyone has a friend during each stage of life. But only lucky ones have the same friend in all stages of life."

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

"Friendship isn’t about who you’ve known the longest. It’s about who walked into your life, said, ‘I’m here for you,’ and proved it."

"No friendship is an accident."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

- Unknown

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

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