50 Inspiring Best Friend Quotes to Celebrate Your Bond

Discover a heartwarming collection of inspiring best friend quotes that capture the essence of friendship. From laughter to support, these quotes celebrate the unique bond between best friends. Whether you're looking for a quote to share with your bestie or simply want to reflect on the beauty of friendship, this collection has something for everyone. Dive into these words of wisdom and let them inspire you to cherish and nurture your friendships. After all, true friends are the family we choose for ourselves!

Wisdom from the Masters

"Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything."

- Muhammad Ali

Relationships

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

- Elisabeth Foley

Relationships

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

- Tennessee Williams

Choice

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

- Carl W. Buechner

Education

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

- Amy Poehler

Motivation

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

- Walter Winchell

Relationships

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

- Ally Condie

Growth

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

- Marcel Proust

Gratitude

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

- Oprah Winfrey

Love

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

- Woodrow Wilson

Relationships

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

- Ed Cunningham

Relationships

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

- Donna Roberts

Connection to Earth

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

- Irish Proverb

Relationships

"Friends are the siblings God never gave us."

- Mencius

Family

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

- Nicole Richie

Connection to Earth

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

- Bernard Meltzer

Relationships

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

- Albert Schweitzer

Relationships

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

- Maya Angelou

Connection to Earth

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

- Francesco Guicciardini

Connection to Earth

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

- Dean Koontz

Relationships

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

- Richard Bach

Relationships

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

- Josh Grayson

Relationships

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

- Kristin Hannah

Relationships

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

- Lois Wyse

Relationships

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

- Virginia Woolf

Relationships

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

- Jane Austen

Love

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

- Sallust

Relationships

"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

Relationships

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

- Winnie the Pooh

Contentment

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

- Paulo Coelho

Relationships

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

- Thomas Fuller

Relationships

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

- Elbert Hubbard

Love

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

- Heidi Wills

Empowerment

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

- Leo Buscaglia

Love

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

- Jennifer Aniston

Relationships

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

- Anna Taylor

Relationships

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

- Douglas Pagels

Love

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

- Emma Watson

Relationships

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

- G. Randolf

Relationships

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

- Gabrielle Zevin

Compassion

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

- Mindy Kaling

Relationships

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

- Oprah Winfrey

Compassion

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

- Lyle Lovett

Relationships

"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

Relationships

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

- Bill Watterson

Courage

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

- Gina Barreca

Love

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

- Reese Witherspoon

Empowerment

"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

Personal Growth

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

- Charlotte Brontë

Love

"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

Relationships

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

- Jenny Han

Relationships

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

- Katherine Mansfield

Inner Peace

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

- Elie Wiesel

Love

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

- George Santayana

Relationships

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

- Vincent Van Gogh

Relationships

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

- John Evelyn

Relationships

"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

Hard Work

"True friendship resists time, distance and silence."

- Isabel Allende

Relationships

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

- Helen Keller

Courage

"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

Relationships

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Connection to Earth

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

- Winnie the Pooh

Relationships

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

- Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Growth

"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

Relationships

"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

Relationships

"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

Relationships

"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

Relationships

""Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.""

- Muhammad Ali

Awareness

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

- Anais Nin

Connection to Earth

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

- Thomas J. Watson

Ambition

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

- Walter Winchell

Courage

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

- Frances Ward Weller

Relationships

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

- Khalil Gibran

Responsibility

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

- Henry David Thoreau

Relationships

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

- Richard Burton

Resilience

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Connection to Earth

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

- Aristotle

Connection to Earth

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

- Henry Ford

Relationships

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

- Henri Nouwen

Relationships

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

- David Storey

Compassion

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

- Candlelight Publications

Connection to Earth

"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

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

- Oscar Wilde

Connection to Earth

"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

Connection to Earth

"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

Wisdom

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

- Tahar Ben Jelloun

Connection to Earth

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

- Thomas Jefferson

Relationships

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

- Matthew Gray Gubler

Connection to Earth

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

- Winnie the Pooh

Love

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

- Toni Morrison

Connection to Earth

"Love is friendship set on fire."

- Jeremy Taylor

Love

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

- Anthony Robbins

Connection to Earth

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

- Chelsea Handler

Relationships

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

- Mohanlal

Connection to Earth

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

- Marilyn Monroe

Connection to Earth

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

- Arnold H. Glasgow

Relationships

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

- William Shakespeare

Wisdom

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

- C.G. Jung

Learning

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

- Billy Chapata

New Beginnings

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

- Kate DiCamillo

Personal Growth

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

- Rasheed Ogunlaru

Empowerment

"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

Compassion

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

- Patrick Lindsay

New Beginnings

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

- Shanna Rodriguez

Connection to Earth

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

- Ann Kaiser Stearns

Connection to Earth

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

- Tony Clark

Connection to Earth

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

- Dodinsky

Relationships

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

- Robert Southey

Resilience

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

- Diana Cortes

Connection to Earth

"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

Connection to Earth

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

- John Newton

Resilience

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

- Tom McNeal

Family

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

- Winnie the Pooh

Love

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

- Donna Lynn Hope

Connection to Earth

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

- Kahlil Gibran

Connection to Earth

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

- Richard Bach

Connection to Earth

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

- Charles Lamb

Joy

"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

Connection to Earth

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

- Emma Watson

Relationships

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

- Linda Grayson

Relationships

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

- Sarah Dessen

Adversity

"A sweet friendship refreshes the soul."

- Proverbs 27:9

Healing

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

- Misty Copeland

Empowerment

"Friends are the family you choose."

- Jess C. Scott

Relationships

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

- Thomas Aquinas

Connection to Earth

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

- C.S. Lewis

Connection to Earth

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

- Sarah Dessen

Honesty

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

- Helen Keller

Relationships

"A true friend is for ever a friend."

- George MacDonald

Relationships

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

- Aberjhani

Relationships

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

- Helen Keller

Courage

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Relationships

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

- Elie Wiesel

Compassion

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

- G. Randolf

Relationships

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

- Octavia Butler

Relationships

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

- Marlene Dietrich

Connection to Earth

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Integrity

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

- Joseph Addison

Happiness

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

- Helen Keller

Courage

"Friendship’s the wine of life."

- Edward Young

Happiness

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

- Winnie the Pooh

Love

"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

Spirituality

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

- Jane Fonda

Empowerment

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

- Shel Silverstein

Gratitude

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

- Leo Buscaglia

Love

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

- Gina Barreca

Ambition

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

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Compassion

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

- Ben Jonson

Wisdom

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

- Jim Henson

Connection to Earth

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

- S.E. Hinton

Connection to Earth

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

- Maria Shriver

Relationships

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

- Henry Ford

Relationships

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

- Tennessee Williams

Resilience

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

- Sarah Valdez

Relationships

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

- Hubert Humphrey

Healing

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

- Jacques Delille

Choice

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

- O. Henry

Compassion

""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

Connection to Earth

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

- Dr. Seuss

Connection to Earth

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

- Dolly Alderton

Love

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

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Happiness

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

- Lois Wyse

Connection to Earth

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

- Aristotle

Wisdom

"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

Happiness

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

- Matt Schucker

Happiness

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

- Albert Camus

Relationships

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

- Eugene Kennedy

Relationships

""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

Compassion

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

- Mandy Hale

Love

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

- Khalil Gibran

Responsibility

""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

Connection to Earth

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

- Edna Buchanan

Family

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

- Woodrow Wilson

Connection to Earth

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

- Elbert Hubbard

Love

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

- Audrey Hepburn

Compassion

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

- Helen Keller

Love

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

- Jim Hayes

Relationships

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

- Bronwyn Polson

Adversity

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

- Margaret Lee Runbeck

Connection to Earth

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

- Khalil Gibran

Relationships

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

- Henry David Thoreau

Relationships

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

- Colette McBeth

Growth

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

- George R.R. Martin

Relationships

"Friendship is a wildly underrated medication."

- Anna Deavere Smith

Healing

"Friendship's the wine of life."

- Edward Young

Relationships

"Friendship is a sheltering tree;"

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Compassion

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

- Shel Silverstein

Compassion

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

- Lyle Lovett

Relationships

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

- Ally Condie

Relationships

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

- Mindy Kaling

Connection to Earth

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

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Relationships

""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

Relationships

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

- Albus Dumbledore

Happiness

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

- Darynda Jones

Happiness

"True friendship is a plant of slow growth…"

- George Washington

Growth

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

- Charles Lamb

Compassion

Bite-sized Inspirational Quotes

"No friendship is an accident."

Relationships

"True friends are always together in spirit."

Relationships

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

Compassion

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

Connection to Earth

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

Resilience

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

Empathy

"To friendship every burden's light."

Relationships

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

- Unknown

Happiness

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

- Unknown

Compassion

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

- Unknown

Awareness

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

- Unknown

Connection to Earth

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

- Unknown

Aspirations

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

- Unknown

Connection to Earth

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

- Unknown

Connection to Earth

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

- Unknown

Joy

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

- Unknown

Love

""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

Ambition

""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

Bravery

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

- Unknown

Relationships

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

Happiness

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

Connection to Earth

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

Connection to Earth

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

Happiness

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

Connection to Earth

"One good friendship will outlive forty average loves."

Relationships

"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."

Connection to Earth

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

Healing

"True friends are great riches."

Well-being

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

Connection to Earth

"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."

Love

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

Connection to Earth

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

Resilience

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

Aspirations

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

Adversity

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

Connection to Earth

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

Resilience

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

Resilience

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

Love

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

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Adaptation

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

- Unknown

Bravery

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

- Unknown

Courage

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

Love

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

Happiness

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

Connection to Earth

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

Connection to Earth

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

Connection to Earth

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

Connection to Earth

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

Love

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

Connection to Earth

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

Connection to Earth

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

Connection to Earth

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

Connection to Earth

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

Compassion

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

Empathy

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

Connection to Earth

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

Connection to Earth

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

Happiness

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

Relationships

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

Connection to Earth

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

Well-being

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

Family