Looking for the perfect way to celebrate your best friend? Find heartfelt best friend quotes that capture the essence of true friendship and lasting bonds.
Friendship is the glue that holds our chaotic lives together, the secret sauce in our best stories, and, mostly, the only reason some of us make it through Monday mornings.
Best friends aren’t just people, they’re the human diaries who guard our secrets, the partners in crime who make bad decisions fun, and the loudest cheerleaders when we stumble into embarrassing moments.
I still laugh when I remember the time my bestie stopped me from texting my ex at 2 a.m. or reminded me to wear pants before I left the house.
This post is for them, the ones who know all our quirks, stick around, and become the real MVPs of life.
True friendships don’t fade, even when life pulls us in different directions.
My bestie, Anjali, now lives in Australia while I’m here in India.
We don’t talk as often as we’d like; life has a way of keeping us all busy, but I know that when we meet, we’ll pick up right where we left off, as no time has passed.
That’s the magic of these bonds; they stay rooted in our hearts, unshaken by distance or time.
It’s these friendships that anchor us, pulling us out of our own chaos and reminding us of what really matters—being seen, heard, and loved.
Thank God we get to choose our friends because, well, family is what we’re born into. But friends are the gems we handpick, the ones who truly get us.
They just don’t listen to what you say, but feel the emotions you leave unsaid.
They can sense your joy or sadness in the way you simply say hello.
They’re the sparkle in your brightest moments and the anchor that steadies you through the roughest storms.
They remind you that some bonds don’t need grand gestures or words to feel special; they just are.
Friendship is its own kind of love, a connection just as deep, just as meaningful as romantic love.
In fact, sometimes, you even find your best friend in your lover, as I did.
I’ve been lucky to find mine in my husband, a friend with whom I can be completely vulnerable, without masks or fears.
The kind of friend who lets you be silly, weird, even a little annoying, and never makes you feel judged.
Someone with whom you can be unapologetically you, someone who sees your flaws and still chooses to stay.
It’s a bond that can be romantic or platonic, or beautifully both, because true friendship transcends labels.
If you’ve found a friend like that, you’ve already struck gold.
It’s ironic how genuine connections can still feel rare and precious in this hyper-connected world of endless notifications.
Yet, it’s exactly these bonds that anchor us, cutting through the noise and bringing us back to what’s real.
While I understand that no words can truly express the depth of our gratitude for friends, sometimes words are all we have.
That’s why I’ve gathered these quotes to celebrate the connections that make life a little brighter, a little better, and a lot more meaningful.
Best Friend Quotes
Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love. ~ Mandy Hale
I found out what the secret to life is—friends. Best friends. ~ Fried Green Tomatoes
A good friend knows all your best stories, but a best friend has lived them with you. ~ Unknown
Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend. ~ Bill Watterson
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. ~ Unknown
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. ~ Unknown
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
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
A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. ~ Donna Roberts
Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don’t say. ~ Unknown
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. ~ Henry Ford
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.
A true friend accepts who you are, but also helps you become who you should be. ~ Unknown
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, Gossip Girl
I may not always be there with you, but I will always be there for you. ~ 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. ~ Unknown
If we treated ourselves as well as we treated our best friend, can you imagine? ~ Meghan Markle
A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world. ~ Leo Buscaglia
A best friend is someone who believes in you even when you’ve stopped believing in yourself. ~ Unknown
That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart. ~ Kristin Hannah
A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you. ~ Elbert Hubbard
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
Life is an ugly, awful place to not have a best friend. ~ Sarah Dessen
Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his. ~ Benjamin Franklin
The best gift anyone can give, I believe, is the gift of sharing themselves. ~ Oprah Winfrey
Lose one friend, lose all friends, lose yourself.” Why? “Because nothing else seemed important. ~ Boy Meets World
Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget. ~ G. Randolf
Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there. ~ Christy Evans
A best friend is someone who makes you laugh even when you think you’ll never smile again. ~ Unknown
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. ~ Bernard Meltzer
I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that’s why. ~ John Steinbeck
A true friend is somebody who can make us feel better no matter how bad things may be. ~ Unknown
The best friends on the road of life are the ones who go the extra mile. ~ Chris Brethwaite
To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world. ~ Dr. Seuss
You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job. ~ Laurence J. Peter
There are friends, there is family and then there are friends that become family. ~ Unknown
A best friend is a treasure chest of memories and laughter. ~ Unknown
Everyone has a friend during each stage of life. But only lucky ones have the same friend in all stages of life. ~ Unknown
Meaningful Friendship Quotes
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 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
When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frostwork, but the solidest things we can know. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. ~ Khalil Gibran
Friendship is accepting a person with all their qualities — good and bad. ~ Mohanlal
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature. ~ P.G. Wodehouse
Whatever we step in, fall off of or trip over…friendship always gives us a soft place to land. ~ Jeannie Hund
The greatest gift in life is the gift of friendship, and I have received it; the greatest healing therapy is friendship. ~ Hubert Humphrey
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. ~ Katherine Mansfield
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. ~ Woodrow Wilson
The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another’s little lapses. ~ David Storey
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you. ~ Joan Powers
The human spirit is more powerful than any drug and that is what needs to be nourished with work, play, friendship, family. These are the things that matter. ~ Awakenings
Friendship … is born at the moment when one man says to another, “What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . . ~ C.S. Lewis
Time doesn’t take away from friendship, nor does separation. ~ Tennessee Williams
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 sharin ~ Elie Wiesel
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. ~ Khalil Gibran
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
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
When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands. ~ Maria Shriver
It’s not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters. ~ Unknown
Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in; external situations cause internal friction; you grow apart and then bounce back together. ~ Mariella Frostrup
Friendship is a forgiving mirror showing us we’re good enough just the way we are. ~ Molly Wigand
Every friendship travels at some time through the black valley of despair. This tests every aspect of your affection. You lose the attraction and the magic. Your sense of each other darkens, and your presence is sore. If you can come through this time, it can purify with your love, and falsity and need will fall away. It will bring you onto new ground where affection can grow again. ~ John O’Donohue
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. ~ Thomas Aquinas
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
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. ~ C. S. Lewis
A strong friendship doesn’t need daily conversation and doesn’t always need togetherness. As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends will never part. ~ Unknown
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. ~ Thomas Aquinas
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and be understood. ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
What I realize now in hindsight is that there is a natural ebb and flow to friendships. There are times you think there’s nothing left between you, that you’ve hit the bottom, but the special ones survive, find ways of restoring themselves. ~ Colette McBeth
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. ~ Henry David Thoreau
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
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
True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable. ~ David Tyson
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often – just to save it from drying out completely. ~ Pam Brown
Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends. ~ Truman Capote
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
Friendship isn’t about who you’ve known the longest. It’s about who walked into your life, said, ‘I’m here for you,’ and proved it. ~ Unknown
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. ~ Eustace Budgell
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
No one has had my back, held my hand and hyped me up like my sisters. ~ Amy Trowbridge-Yates
Beautiful Friendship Quotes
Friendship — my definition — is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don’t have trust, the friendship will crumble. ~ Stieg Larsson
How to measure friendship—by hours of listening by decibels of laughter by pounds of problems solved by miles of life walked together. ~ Cheryl Hawkinson
Here’s to the moments that become great memories with the friends who become family. ~ Melissa Woo
I think if I’ve learned anything about friendship, it’s to hang in, stay connected, fight for them and let them fight for you. Don’t walk away, don’t be distracted, don’t be too busy or tired, don’t take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff. ~ Jon Katz
Our friendship is rooted in realness. That’s what makes it so strong. ~ Unknown
Friendship takes work. Finding friends, nurturing friendships, scheduling face time, it all take 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
When you face the world with a friend by your side, your happiness doubles—your troubles divide. ~ Cheryl Hawkinson
Short Quotes About Friendship
True friends are great riches. ~ Unknown
Between friends, words are optional. ~ Penny Krugman
Life is an adventure best shared with a best friend. ~ Unknown
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won’t go. ~ Margaret Walker
There’s no such thing as boring when you share it with a friend. ~ Cheryl Hawkinson
In my friend, I find a second self. ~ Isabel Norton
Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world. ~ John Evelyn
Friendship is love without wings. ~ George Gordon Byron
TGBF (Thank God for Best Friends). ~ Jake Gahr
I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen. ~ Winnie The Pooh
With us, there’s no such thing as TMI. ~ Ellen Brenneman
A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face. ~ Maya Angelou
To understand and to be understood—that is the essence of friendship. ~ Unknown
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best kind of self-care is having a friend like you. ~ Unknown
Girlfriends help you make nonsense of the world. ~ Allyson Cook
A faithful friend loves to the end. ~ Unknown
Laughter is louder and life feels lighter with good friends. ~ Melissa Woo
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. ~ Aristotle
Great friends can say all the things with just a look. ~ Melissa Woo
Talk between women friends is always therapy. ~ Jayne Anne Phillips
I’m so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much. ~ L.M. Montgomery
The language of friendship is not words but meanings. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Laughing with a friend is the best kind of laughing there is. ~ Unknown
Friends are the people who convince us we’re not that weird. ~ Keion Jackson
Heartlines can mean just as much as bloodlines. ~ Melvina Young
If you have one true friend, you have more than your share. ~ Thomas Fuller
Stay’ is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary. ~ Amos Bronson Alcott
God couldn’t hand out hugs all the time, so he created friends. ~ Jim Howard
Friends are the gravy on the biscuit of life. ~ Erin Canty
Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected. ~ C.J. Langenhoven
One good friendship will outlive forty average loves. ~ Unknown
By chance we met, by choice we become friends. ~ Millie
A friend is a sunny day in human form. ~ Bill Gray
The best cure for a bad day is a good friend. ~ Bill Gray
Good friends will help you until you’re unstuck. ~ Winnie the Pooh
Friends are the stars that light up our lives all year round. ~ Cheryl Hawkinson
You’ve got a friend in me. ~ Randy Newman, Toy Story
Awards become corroded. Friends gather no dust. ~ Jesse Owens
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends? ~ Abraham Lincoln
True friendship is a plant of slow growth. ~ George Washington
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. ~ Samuel Butler
When life is an obstacle course, friends help us power through. ~ Unknown
Whatever words you say, a friend will hear your heart. ~ Suzanne Berry
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. ~ Aristotle
Friendship is a wildly underrated medication. ~ Anna Deavere Smith
A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth. ~ Charles Darwin
Friendship: the best umbrella during life’s storms. ~ Tina Neidlein
A true friend is for ever a friend. ~ George MacDonald
We were together. I forget the rest. ~ Walt Whitman
Remember George, no man is a failure who has friends. ~ Clarence, It’s a Wonderful Life
There’s nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing. ~ Jennifer Aniston
Friends are family, too. ~ Lee Franklin
Share your smile with the world. It’s a symbol of friendship and peace. ~ Christie Brinkley
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. ~ Baltasar Gracian
Friendship is the wine of life. ~ Edward Young
Friends got your back no matter what. ~ Unknown
A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself. ~ Frank Crane
In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips. ~ Unknown
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. ~ Aristotle
Friends are relatives you make for yourself. ~ Eustache Deschamps
No friendship is an accident. ~ O. Henry
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious. ~ Herodotus
True friends are always together in spirit. ~ L.M. Montgomery
Friends are the siblings God never gave us. ~ Mencius
To friendship every burden’s light. ~ Aesop
A sweet friendship refreshes the soul. ~ Proverbs 27:9
I get by with a little help from my friends. ~ The Beatles
Friendship isn’t a big thing—it’s a million little things. ~ Paulo Coelho
Women’s friendships are like a renewable source of power. ~ Jane Fonda
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself. ~ Jim Morrison
Friendship is a sheltering tree. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher. ~ Oprah Winfrey
Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud. ~ Maya Angelou
Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare—and precious as a pearl. ~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. ~ Euripides
It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. ~ Marlene Dietrich
A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship. ~ Saint Francis de Sales
Life is nothing without friendship. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself. ~ Frances Ward Weller
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. ~ Jean de la Fontaine
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant. ~ Socrates
Funny Quotes on Friendship
There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate. ~ Linda Grayson
I think we’ll be friends forever because we’re too lazy to find new friends. ~ Unknown
A friend doesn’t care how much laundry is in the background of your video call. ~ Meghan Craig
Friends are like snowflakes. If you pee on them, they disappear. ~ Unknown
A good friend will help you move, but a true friend will help you move a body. ~ Steven J. Daniels
Friends are the swim-up bars in the sea of life. ~ Dan Taylor
A good person tolerates your car singing. A good friend sings right along with you. ~ Sara Quenzer
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. ~ Arnold H. Glasgow
You don’t have to be crazy to be my friend. I’ll train you. ~ Unknown
The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families. ~ Jay McInerney
With friends, the cone of silence has ice cream on top. ~ Meghan Craig
Friends buy you food. Best friends eat your food. ~ Unknown
Two superheroes. No sidekick. That’s us. ~ Carrie Bratcher
True friends are like chips and salsa. They always show up for you—no need to ask. ~ Joey Benevento
Your girls don’t judge you. They’ll side-eye you until you get it right, though. ~ Melvina Young
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
Best friends. Because if anyone else heard our conversations we’d end up in the mental hospital. ~ Unknown
God made us best friends because he knew our moms couldn’t handle us as sisters. ~ Unknown
A real friend knows when to listen, when to stop listening, when to talk, when to stop talking, when to pour wine, when to stop pouring and just hand over the bottle. ~ Lee Franklin
As much as a BFF can make you go WTF, there’s no denying we’d be a little less rich without them. ~ Gossip Girl
Hair changes. Friendship stays. ~ Chris Conti
‘Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected. ~ Charles Lamb
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… my hair. ~ Unknown
Friends are the family we choose…to get in trouble with. ~ Allyson Cook
We’re best friends because we’re the same amount of weird. ~ Meghan Craig
Best friends don’t care if your house is clean. They care if you have wine. ~ Unknown
Never let your best friends get lonely…keep disturbing them. ~ Unknown
We’ll be the old ladies causing trouble in the nursing home. ~ Unknown
You find out who your real friends are when you’re involved in a scandal. ~ Elizabeth Taylor
The better the friend, the less cleaning you do before they come over. ~ Dee Ann Stewart
Friends are like coffee… you need ’em every damn day. ~ Tina Neidlein
We’ll be best friends forever because you already know too much. ~ Unknown
Friends are like fingerprints—every one is unique, and one day they might get you convicted of a crime. ~ Andrew Blackburn
I love that our effortless friendship fits perfectly with my laziness. ~ Unknown
Friends finish each other’s sentences. And wine. ~ Megan Haave
If you are ever lucky enough to find a weirdo, never let them go. ~ Matthew Gray Gubler
Real friendship is when your friend comes over to your house and then you both just take a nap. ~ Unknown
True friends don’t judge each other. They judge other people together. ~ Unknown
When you’re with a good friend, every hour’s a happy hour. ~ Jake Gahr
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. ~ Bill Murray
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success! ~ Doug Larson
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. ~ Unknown
There is no problem that two friends cannot ignore, discuss, plot against, make fun of, or drown in chocolate sauce. ~ Jennifer Fujita
True friendship is when you walk into their house and your WiFi connects automatically. ~ Unknown
Sometimes, the whole day just seems to be flipping you off. That’s a good day to have friends. ~ Jim Howard
Best Friends Quotes
Friends are the family we choose for ourselves. ~ Edna Buchanan
Best friends read your mind, know your heart and feed your soul. ~ Meghan Craig
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. ~ Morgan Matson
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
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
The best friends to have are the ones who make every long road feel shorter and every adventure even bigger. ~ Keely Chace
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
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda
A 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
You can always tell when two people are best friends because they’re always having way more fun than it makes sense for them to be having. ~ Unknown
Best friends are there whenever, wherever, until, because…always. ~ Meghan Craig
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
Close friends are truly life’s treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. ~ Vincent Van Gogh
A friend sees you in the best possible light, even if you’re not being your best possible self. ~ Jeannie Hund
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
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.’ ~ Unknown
True friendship is when two friends can walk in opposite directions, yet remain side by side. ~ Josh Grayson
The truth is, no matter how lonely you might feel, you’re never going through anything alone….You can choose your family. ~ Jennifer Lopez
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walk out. ~ Walter Winchell
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
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. ~ Unknown
A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside. ~ Winnie the Pooh
I wouldn’t trade it for anything. Never, no, never. Your friendship is the best present ever. ~ Tigger, Winnie the Pooh
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
Best friends are the people in your life who make you laugh louder, smile brighter and live better. ~ Unknown
Best friends don’t necessarily have to talk every day. They don’t even need to talk for weeks. But when they do, it’s like they never stopped talking. ~ Unknown
Words are easy, like the wind; faithful friends are hard to find. ~ William Shakespeare
The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away. ~ Barbara Kingsolver
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. ~ Richard Bach
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
It seems they had always been, and always would be, friends. Time could change, but not that.~ Winnie the Pooh
Gratitude Friendship Quotes
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~ Marcel Proust
If your smile muscles hurt, thank a friend! ~ Chris Brethwaite
Gratitude is what happens when you’ve got awesome friends. ~ Keely Chace
A friend is a gift, a blessing, a reason to be grateful to God. ~ Jake Gahr
Good friends in my life. Grateful feelings in my heart. ~ Keely Chace
Friends give us the blessing of belonging. ~ Megan Haave
If you’re happy and you know it, thank your friends. ~ Amy Trowbridge-Yates
Good Friends Quotes
Friends…they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Maybe friendship is being the guardian of another person’s hope. Leave it with me and I’ll look after it for a while , if it feels too heavy for now. ~ Dolly Alderton
If you have good friends, no matter how much life is sucking , they can make you laugh. ~ P.C. Cast
The thing about strength is that when you’re running a little low, you can tap a friend for a refill. ~ Melvina Young
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. ~ Anaïs Nin
If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere. ~ Zig Ziglar
When it gets the darkest, you’ll see who your true friends are. They’ll be the ones carrying the light. ~ Katherine Stano
True friends are like diamonds—bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style. ~ Nicole Richie
Friends are angels who love you even at your most un-angelic. – Carolina Fernandez
A good friend knows everything about you…and loves you anyway. ~ Dan Taylor
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. ~ John Churton Collins
Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I don’t suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don’t trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It’s a sure sign that they don’t really know anyone. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón
True friends aren’t the ones who make your problems disappear. They are the ones who won’t disappear when you’re facing problems. ~ Unknown
Silence makes the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts. ~ Margaret Lee Runbeck
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
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice. ~ Ben Johnson
No person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. ~ Alice Walker
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
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 one of the best things you can be and the greatest things you can have. ~ Sarah Valdez
Small talk, medium talk, big talk…with real friends, any type of talk always feels “just right.” ~ Tom Shay-Zapien
Through the ups, the downs and the sideways, life is always better with friends. – Mercedes Lucero
Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you. ~ Misty Copeland
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success. ~ Oscar Wilde
A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else. ~ Len Wein
One good friend is worth a thousand acquaintances. ~ Cheryl Hawkinson
A friend who understands your tears is much more valuable than a lot of friends who only know your smile. ~ Unknown
Friends joke with one another. ‘Hey, you’re poor. Hey, your momma’s dead.’ That’s what friends do. ~ Michael Scott, The Office
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
Life was meant for good friends and great adventures. ~ Unknown
A good friend is like a four-leaf clover. Hard to find and lucky to have. ~ Jenna Evans Welch
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. ~ Unknown
Friends make the good things better and the bad things not so bad simply by being there. ~ Renee Daniels
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose. ~ Tennessee Williams
True friends are those rare people who come to find you in dark places and lead you back to the light. ~ Anonymous
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends. ~ Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience. ~ Simon Sinek
One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. ~ George Santayana
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
Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there? ~ Richard Bach
Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up. ~ Thomas J. Watson
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
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ~ Ed Cunngiham
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends leave footprints in your heart. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. ~ Carl W. Buechner
A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden. ~ Unknown
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. ~ Virginia Woolf
A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are. ~ Unknown
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. ~ Henri Nouwen
I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than walk alone in the light. ~ Helen Keller
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 only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Long Distance Friendship Quotes
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. ~ Henry David Thoreau
A friend can make you smile even when they’re not around. ~ Mike Rokoff
There are friendships imprinted in our hearts that will never be diminished by time and distance. ~ Dodinsky
We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep. ~ William James
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. ~ Washington Irving
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
True friends never become apart; maybe in distance but never in heart. ~ Helen Keller
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
A friend is someone you’re connected to across time, space, and bizarre life situations. ~ Cheryl Hawkinson
There is no distance too far between friends, for friendship gives wings to the heart. ~ Unknown
The most important discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. ~ Elisabeth Foley
Distance means so little, when someone means so much. ~ Tom McNeal
A part of you has grown in me, together forever we shall be, never apart, maybe in distance, but not in heart. ~ Unknown
True friendship resists time, distance, and silence. ~ Isabel Allende
Nothing can separate true friends. Nice try, geography. ~ Carolina Fernandez
I don’t cry because we’ve been separated by distance, and for a matter of years. Why? Because for as long as we share the same sky and breathe the same air, we’re still together. ~ Donna Lynn Hope
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 friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. ~ Kahlil Gibran
A real friendship should not fade as time passes, and should not weaken because of space separation. ~ John Newton
Can miles truly separate you from friends…If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there? ~ Richard Bach
An unseen thread of warmth, love and memory draws friends together across the miles. ~ Ellen Brenneman
Old Friends Quotes
There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met. ~ Jim Henson
They knew they’d be friends forever. And so it was. ~ Cheryl Hawkinson
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
Remember that life’s most valuable antiques are dear old friends. ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends. ~ Sylvia Plath
Old friends are best. ~ John Selden
Some friendships just get better with time. ~ Jim Howard
We grow, we change, but friendship always fits. ~ John Peterson
The best mirror is an old friend. ~ George Herbert
Friends come and go, but the really good ones sit and stay. ~ Tina Neidlein
You know what sucks about getting older? Your friends have known you for way too long. They’ve got too much on you. I want friends who still lie to me because they don’t want to hurt my feelings. I sadly kind of mean that. ~ Nick Miller
To be with old friends is very warming and comforting. ~ Ian Ziering
Longtime big friends. ~ Cheryl Hawkinson
Old friends become more and more precious to us as the years pass. They can look at us for who we once were and who we are now, appreciating the difficulties we have overcome, the abilities we have acquired and the ways we have stayed true to ourselves. ~ Wendy Lustbader
The best friends are “to the end” friends. ~ Jake Gahr
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
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“WTF?” times may come and go, but “BFF” is forever. ~ Ellen Brenneman
Old friends are memories personified. ~ Richard Paul Evans
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
Finding an old friend is like finding a lost treasure. ~ Anthony D. Williams
Someone who sticks by you, helps guide you and always sees the good in you…that’s the kind of friend you hold on to forever. ~ Carolina Fernandez
That’s how it goes, kids. The friends, neighbors, drinking buddies and partners in crime you love so much when you’re young, as the years go by, you just lose touch. You will be shocked when you discover how easy it is in life to part ways with people forever. That’s why, when you find someone you want to keep around, you do something about it. ~ Ted Mosby
New Friendship Quotes
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.~ Francesco Guicciardini
The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy to your soul. ~ Shanna Rodriguez
Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you. ~ Kate DiCamillo
Every new friend is a new adventure… the start of more memories. ~ Patrick Lindsay
The best time to make friends is before you need them. ~ Ethel Barrymore
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
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
Be genuinely interested in everyone you meet and everyone you meet will be genuinely interested in you. ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru
The kindest way of helping yourself is to find a friend. ~ Ann Kaiser Stearns
Everyone you meet knows something you don’t know but need to know. Learn from them. ~ Carl Jung
Quotes About Friendship & Love
Friendship is another word for love. ~ Unknown
Love is friendship set on fire. ~ Jeremy Taylor
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. ~ Sam Keen
True love is finding your soulmate in your best friend. ~ Faye Hall
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
Marry your best friend. Life is too short not to love someone who lets you be a fool with them. ~ N’Tina Preusser
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation. ~ Oscar Wilde
Love is a partnership of two unique people who bring out the very best in each other, and who know that even though they are wonderful as individuals, they are even better together. ~ Barbara Cage
Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of becoming passionate friends. ~ Harville Hendrix
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
I think what makes our marriage work amid all the glare is that my husband is my best friend. ~ Faith Hill
The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life. ~ Chelsea Handler
It’s not being in love that makes me happy. It is the person that I am in love with that does. ~ Unknown
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short. ~ Andre Maurois
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Friendship in marriage is the spark that lights an everlasting flame. ~ Fawn Weaver
There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage. ~ Martin Luther King
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