50 Inspiring Best Friend Quotes to Celebrate Your Bond

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

- Walter Winchell

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

- Irish proverb

"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

"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

"Friends are the siblings God never gave us."

- Mencius

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

- Nicole Richie

"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

"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

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

- Virginia Woolf

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

- Francesco Guicciardini

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

- Maya Angelou

"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

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

- Elisabeth Foley

"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

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

- Bernard Meltzer

"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

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

- Kristin Hannah

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

- Josh Grayson

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

- Tennessee Williams

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

- Richard Bach

"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

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

- Winnie the Pooh

"A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad."

- Arnold H. Glasgow

"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

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

- Donna Roberts

"To like and dislike the same things, that is what makes a solid friendship."

- Sallust

"That’s what makes best friends. It’s not whether or not you live on the same block or go to the same school, but how you feel about each other in your hearts."

- Jacqueline Woodson

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

- Katherine Mansfield

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

- Elie Wiesel

"One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human."

- George Santayana

"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

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

- John Evelyn

"Friendship takes work. Finding friends, nurturing friendships, scheduling face time, it all takes a tremendous amount of work. But it’s worth it. If you put in the effort, you’ll see the rewards of positive friends who will make your life extraordinary."

- Maya Angelou

"True friendship resists time, distance and silence."

- Isabel Allende

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

- Helen Keller

"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

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"It seems they had always been, and always would be, friends. Time could change, but not that."

- Winnie the Pooh

"We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young."

- Letty Cottin Pogrebin

"The meeting of dear friends atones for the regret of separation; and like it so much enhances affection, that after absence one wonders how one has been able to stay away from them so long."

- Marguerite Gardiner

"When twilight drops her curtain down and pins it with a star, remember that you have a friend though she may wander far."

- L. M. Montgomery

"She existed in her friends; there she was. All the parts of herself she’d forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them."

- Ann Brashares

"Friendship isn’t a big thing — it’s a million little things."

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Thomas Fuller

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

- Elbert Hubbard

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

- Heidi Wills

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

- Leo Buscaglia

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

- Jennifer Aniston

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

- Anna Taylor

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

- Douglas Pagels

"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

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

- G. Randolf

"Because you are my oldest friend. Because, once, when I was at my lowest, you saved me."

- Gabrielle Zevin

"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

"The best gift anyone can give, I believe, is the gift of sharing themselves."

- Oprah Winfrey

"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

"I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar."

- Robert Brault

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

- Bill Watterson

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

- Gina Barreca

"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

"Friends are people who help you be more yourself, more the person you are intended to be, and it is possible that without them, we don’t recognize ourselves or grow to be what it is in us to be."

- Merle Shain

"If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own."

- Charlotte Brontë

"Best friends are always together, always whispering and laughing and running, always at each other’s house, having dinner, sleeping over. They are practically adopted by each other’s parents. You can’t pry them apart."

- Jerry Spinelli

"Best friends are important. They’re the closest thing to a sister you’ll ever have."

- Jenny Han

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

- Arnold H. Glasgow

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

- Thomas J. Watson

"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

"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

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

- Jim Henson

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

- Leo Buscaglia

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

- Marlene Dietrich

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

- G. Randolf

"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

"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

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

- Linda Grayson

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

- Charles Lamb

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

- Matthew Gray Gubler

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

- Candlelight Publications

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

- David Storey

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Aristotle

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

- Henry Ford

"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

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

- Oscar Wilde

"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

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

- Tahar Ben Jelloun

"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

"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

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

- Kate DiCamillo

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

- Rasheed Ogunlaru

"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

"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

"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

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

- Sarah Dessen

"A true friend is for ever a friend."

- George MacDonald

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Hubert Humphrey

""If you have good friends, no matter how much life is sucking, they can make you laugh.""

- O. Henry

""Real friends are the ones you can count on no matter what. The ones who go into the forest to find you and bring you home. And real friends never have to tell you that they’re your friends.""

- Morgan Matson

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

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

""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

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

- Walter Winchell

"My friends and I are crazy. That’s the only thing that keeps us sane."

- Matt Schucker

"I’ll stick to finding the funny in the ordinary because my life is pretty ordinary and so are the lives of my friends — and my friends are hilarious."

- Issa Rae

"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

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

- Jane Fonda

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it."

- C.S. Lewis

"Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It’s splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world."

- L.M. Montgomery

"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

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

- William Shakespeare

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

- Michelle Obama

"Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts."

- Sarah Dessen

"Got just enough room to be a friend of yours. Oh, I hope you got room to be a friend of mine."

- Aberjhani

"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 Butler

"Friendship’s the wine of life."

- Edward Young

"My only sketch, profile, of Heaven is a large blue sky, and larger than the biggest I have seen in June — and in it are my friends — every one of them."

- Emily Dickinson

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

- Ben Jonson

"Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends."

- Jacques Delille

"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

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

- Aristotle

"Nearly everything I know about love, I’ve learnt from my long-term friendships with women."

- Dolly Alderton

""Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.""

- Edna Buchanan

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- Michelle Obama

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

- Mandy Hale

"Friendship is a sheltering tree;"

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

- Woodrow Wilson

"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

"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

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"Friendship's the wine of life."

- Edward Young

"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

"Friendship is a wildly underrated medication."

- Anna Deavere Smith

"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

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

- Elbert Hubbard

"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

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

- Helen Keller

"An old friend will help you move. A good friend will help you move a dead body."

- Jim Hayes

"Whoever says friendship is easy has obviously never had a true friend!"

- Bronwyn Polson

"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

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

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"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

""Silence makes the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.""

- Margaret Lee Runbeck

"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 messy house is a must - it separates your true friends from other friends. Real friends are there to visit you not your house!""

- Jennifer Wilson

"True friendship is a plant of slow growth…"

- George Washington

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

- Albus Dumbledore

"An integral part of any best friend’s job is to immediately clear your computer history if you die."

- Darynda Jones

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

- Charles Lamb

"No friendship is an accident."

"True friends are always together in spirit."

"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."

"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."

"To friendship every burden's light."

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

- Unknown

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

- Unknown

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

- Unknown

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

- Unknown

""A true friend is somebody who can make us feel better no matter how bad things may be.""

- Unknown

""Best friends don’t judge each other. They judge other people together.""

- Unknown

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

- Unknown

""I’d walk through fire for my best friend. Well, not fire, because that would be dangerous. But a super humid room. But not too humid, because you know… sweaty.""

- Unknown

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

- Unknown

""I’m glad we’re friends. I wouldn’t want to be related to you.""

- Unknown

""If you and I are on a plane and it crashes, we have to make sure to get out of there quickly, because I want to keep our friendship alive.""

- Unknown

""You’re the peanut butter to my jelly.""

- Unknown

"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."

""Friends are like snowflakes. If you pee on them, they disappear.""

- Unknown

"True friends are great riches."

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

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

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

"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."

"One good friendship will outlive forty average loves."

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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.’"

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

""A friend will help you move. A best friend will help you move a body.""

- Unknown

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

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

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

""If you fall, I’ll be there. I’m just going to make sure you don’t get up.""

- Unknown

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

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