50 Inspirational Uplifting Friendship Quotes to Warm Your Heart

"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

"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

"Love is friendship set on fire."

- Jeremy Taylor

"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

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

- François de La Rochefoucauld

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

- Aristotle

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

- Thomas Aquinas

"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

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

- John Evelyn

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

- Elbert Hubbard

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

- Bill Watterson

"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

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Woodrow Wilson

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

- Winnie the Pooh

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

- Carl W. Buechner

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

- Elisabeth Foley

"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

"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

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

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"A true friend is for ever a friend."

- George MacDonald

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

- Richard Bach

"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

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

- Josh Grayson

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Joseph Addison

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- G. Randolf

"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

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

- Virginia Woolf

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Hubert Humphrey

"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

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Ed Cunningham

"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

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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.

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

- Aristotle

"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

"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

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

- Heidi Wills

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

- Misty Copeland

"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

"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

"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

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

- Kate DiCamillo

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

- Francesco Guicciardini

"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

"Never give in. Never, never, never."

- Winston Churchill

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

- Marcel Proust

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Oliver Goldsmith

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice."

- Bob Marley

"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

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

- Joseph Parry

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

- Aristotle

"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

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

- Isabel Allende

"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

"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

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

- Helen Keller

"Tough times never last, but tough people do."

- Robert Schuller

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

- Elisabeth Foley

"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

"If you're going through hell, keep going."

- Winston Churchill

"My scars remind me that I did indeed survive my deepest wounds. That in itself is an accomplishment. And they bring to mind something else, too. They remind me that the damage life has inflicted on me has, in many places, left me stronger and more resilient. What hurt me in the past has actually made me better equipped to face the present."

- Steve Goodier

"Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going."

- Yasmin Mogahed

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail."

- Nelson Mandela

"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"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

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

"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

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

- Chelsea Handler

"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

"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

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

- Ice Cube

"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

"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

"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

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

- Thomas Fuller

"Remember that just because you hit bottom doesn’t mean you have to stay there."

- Robert Downey Jr.

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

- Nicole Richie

"Friends are the family you choose."

- Jess C. Scott

"It always seems impossible until it's done."

- Nelson Mandela

"A sweet friendship refreshes the soul."

- Proverbs 27:9

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

- Oscar Wilde

"Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"We don’t develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity."

- Barbara De Angelis

"She stood in the storm and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails."

- Elizabeth Edwards

"Difficult roads always lead to beautiful destinations."

- Zig Ziglar

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."

- Helen Keller

"There is always light. If only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it."

- Amanda Gorman

"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."

- Aristotle

"It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog."

- Mark Twain

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

- Thomas A. Edison

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."

- Kahlil Gibran

"All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me…. You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."

- Walt Disney

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

- Tahar Ben Jelloun

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."

- Dale Carnegie

"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

"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

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."

- Michael Jordan

"Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it."

- Charles R. Swindoll

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

- Rasheed Ogunlaru

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

- Aristotle

"A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles."

- Christopher Reeve

"You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages."

- Michelle Obama

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

- Albert Camus

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

- David Storey

"Inside of a ring or out, ain’t nothing wrong with going down. It’s staying down that’s wrong."

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Sarah Dessen

"Friendship is a sheltering tree."

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"True friendship is a plant of slow growth."

- George Washington

"Friendship is love without wings."

- George Gordon Byron

"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

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

- Khalil Gibran

"Friendship is a sheltering tree;"

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

- Charles Caleb Colton

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Ann Kaiser Stearns

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

- Shanna Rodriguez

"Friendship's the wine of life."

- Edward Young

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

- Patrick Lindsay

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

- C.G. Jung

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

- Maya Angelou

"Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up."

- Rocky Balboa

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"True friendship is a plant of slow growth…"

- George Washington

"No road is long with good company."

- Turkish proverb

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

- Irish Proverb

"Friendship is the sweetest influence."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A friend is a gift you give yourself."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

- Arnold H. Glasgow

"Friends are the siblings God never gave us."

- Mencius

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

- Emily Dickinson

"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

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

- Josh Billings

"The best mirror is an old friend."

- George Herbert

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

- Jane Fonda

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

- Christie Brinkley

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

- William Shakespeare

"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

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

- Frances Ward Weller

"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

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

- Bill Watterson

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

- Anna Taylor

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

- Jess Day

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Stephen Chbosky

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

- Bernard Meltzer

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

- Matthew Gray Gubler

"We must meet the challenge rather than wish it were not before us."

- William J. Brennan, Jr.

"This too shall pass."

- Pinterest

"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

"Hard times are sometimes blessings in disguise. We do have to suffer but in the end it makes us strong, better and wise."

- Anurag Prakash Ray

"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."

- William Ellery Channing

"The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity."

- Seneca

"Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work through difficult problems."

- Gever Tulley

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."

- Henry Ford

"A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure."

- Henry Kissinger

"Let perseverance be your engine and hope your fuel."

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."

- Epictetus

"Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create."

- Roy T. Bennett

"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."

- Jimmy Dean

"Energy and persistence conquers all things."

- Benjamin Franklin

"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations."

- Chuck Swindoll

"When written in Chinese the word “crisis” is composed of two characters – one represents danger and the other represents opportunity."

- John F Kennedy

"Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing."

- L.M. Montgomery

"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."

- Zig Ziglar

"Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along."

- George Herbert

"The best way to predict your future is to create it."

- Peter Drucker

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The only limit to our realisation of tomorrow is our doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take."

- Wayne Gretzky

"Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity."

- Lou Holtz

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

- Helen Keller

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have."

- Frederick Keonig

"To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you."

- Walt Whitman

"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."

- Randy Pausch

"By the darkness, stars are revealed."

- Evette Carter

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

- Charles Lamb

"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

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

- Linda Grayson

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

- Winnie the Pooh

"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

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is merely the comparison of one state to the other. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss."

- Alexandre Dumas

"how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."

- Michael Jordan

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

- Candlelight Publications

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"True friends are always together in spirit."

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

"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 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."

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

"No friendship is an accident."

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

"To friendship every burden's light."

"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.’"

"I love you."

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

"You’ve always been a beacon of light in dark times; may I be one for 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."

"You’ve survived 100% of your worst days so far. You’re a champion."

"Awards become corroded. Friends gather no dust."

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

"You don’t have to talk until you’re ready. (Or ever.) I’ll be here as a support either way."

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

"You matter to so many people in this world. You make such a positive impact on people’s lives (including my own) and I’m here to help you get through this difficult time."

"Better times are ahead; I can’t wait to experience them alongside you."

"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 know you’re hurting — and that’s valid. I’m here to listen or help in any way I can."

"Remember: This is what you are going through, not who you are."

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

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

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

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

"Even the worst days are just 24 hours; there is hope for tomorrow."

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

"If all you did today was wake up, that’s enough, and I’m proud of you."

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

"I’m saying this with all the love in my heart, but it may be time to seek some professional help and support."

"Whatever path you take, I’m with you. By your side – always."

"When you face difficult times, know that challenges are not sent to destroy you. They're sent to promote, increase, and strengthen you."

"Sometimes when you are in a dark place you think you have been buried, but you’ve actually been planted."

"Just because you’re going through this doesn’t mean you have to experience it alone — and you won’t."

"You don’t always have to keep it together. I give you permission to fall apart from time to time, and you should give yourself the same."

"You are worthy of asking for and receiving help — this is not your burden to bear alone."

"You don’t have to explain yourself to me. I believe you."

"You are never “less than.” You are more than. More than the wildest dreams I ever had for a good friend, a partner, a parent."

"You don’t have to have all the answers or figure it out right away. This may take time."

"I forgive you; I’d love if you could forgive yourself, too."

"You are not your illness."

"I can imagine that was very difficult."

"I wish for things to be easier for you. And soon."

"You are a kind, loving, beautiful person. It might be really hard to see this now, but you will get through this – and when it seems like you won’t I’m here for you."

"I’m sending you something to help lift your spirits; I hope it brings a smile to your face."

"I’m so proud of you for taking on this burden. You have done so much to help others, but now it’s time for you to look after yourself."

"This chapter in life sucks. I’m here to do all I can to get you out of this so you can move on to the spectacular things you want to do in life."

"We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same."

"You are worthy and deserving of everything good the world has to offer."

"I wish you saw yourself the way I see you; you’re incredible."

"I see you, I celebrate you, and I hold space for you."

"You’ve always helped me through a hard time, and we’ll get through this one together, too."

"It’s not fair what you’re going through."

"I hate that you’re hurting. You don’t deserve this."

"Thank you for always having my back. Now it’s my turn to have yours."

"The world is better because you are in it."

"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."

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

"It’s okay to not feel okay."

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

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

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

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

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

- Unknown

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

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

"True friends are great riches."

"One good friendship will outlive forty average loves."

"Take one day at a time — sometimes an hour at a time."

"Your feelings deserve to be felt, acknowledged, and seen."

"Instead of wondering what could go wrong, ask yourself: What if everything worked out? What if everything went right?"

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

- Unknown

"Rest and recharge; what feels impossibly hard tonight might feel a little easier by the morning."