700 Best Friendship Quotes To Celebrate Your Best Friend
1. Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. -Jean de La Fontaine
2. "Friendships take minutes to make, moments to break, years to repair.”― Pierce Brown
3. "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
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5. "Friends are the family you choose.” — Jess C. Scott
6. "True friends are never apart, maybe in distance, but never in heart.” — Helen Keller
7. 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. -Unknown
8. A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. -Donna Roberts
9. "All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.” — Aristotle
10. I get by with a little help from my friends.
11. Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.
12. "How beautiful it is to find someone who asks for nothing but your company.” – Brigitte Nicole
13. “Friends are relatives you make for yourself.”
14. Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
15. Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
16. Friendship is when people know all about you but like you anyway.
17. The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
18. "You find out who your real friends are when you’re involved in a scandal.” – Elizabeth Taylor
19. "A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.” — Shania Twain
20. "We’ll be the old ladies causing trouble in the nursing home.” – Unknown
21. "Time doesn’t take away from friendship, nor does separation.” ― Tennessee Williams
22. “the best gift anyone can give, i believe, is the gift of sharing themselves” —oprah winfrey
23. "Good friends are like stars, you don’t always see them, but you know they are there.” – Christy Evans
24. “The greatest gift of life is friendship.”
25. "Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
26. "We made a deal ages ago. Men, babies, it doesn’t matter…We’re soulmates.” – Samantha Jones, Sex and the City
27. “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
28. “You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
29. "Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.” – Francesco Guicciardini
30. “life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend” —sarah dessen, someone like you
31. "In my friend, I find a second self."– Isabel NortonIn my friend, I find a second self."In my friend, I find a second self."– Isabel Norton– Isabel Norton
32. "It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”– Marlene Dietrich
33. "As a friend, you first give your understanding, then you try to understand.” — Robert Breault
34. “Awards become corroded. Friends gather no dust.”
35. "Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.” ― Socrates
36. Nobody can avoid falling in love. They might want to deny it, but friendship is probably the most common form of love. -Stieg Larsson
37. "The only way to have a friend is to be one.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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39. “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.”
40. "Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.” — Thomas Fuller
41. "The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it."— Ralph Waldo Emerson
42. "My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you’re most ashamed of.” – Jodie Foster
43. "Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone — but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.”– William Hazlitt
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45. "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 Gates of the Forest
46. "Friendship,” said Christopher Robin,"is a very comforting thing to have.” — A. A. Milne
47. "A strong friendship doesn’t need daily conversation or being together. As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends never part.”—Anonymous
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49. Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
50. "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
51. 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
52. Life is nothing without friendship. -Cicero
53. "Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”―Elie Wiesel
54. "Friendship unveils potentials and abilities.” ― John Arthur
55. "Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.” — Anna Taylor
56. One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
57. "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.” — Anonymous
58. "True friends stab you in the front.” — Oscar Wilde
59. "The best mirror is an old friend.”―George Herbert
60. “The truth is, no matter how lonely you might feel, you’re never going through anything alone....You can choose your family.”
61. “True friendship resists time, distance, and silence.”
62. "Friendship is one mind in two bodies.” – Mencius
63. "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
64. "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
65. "There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”―Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
66. There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.
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68. “Friendships between women, as any woman will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses... swapped back and forth and over again,"
69. “the truth is, no matter how lonely you might feel, you’re never going through anything aloneyou can choose your family” —jennifer lopez
70. “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.”
71. "When a woman becomes her own best friend, life is easier.”—Diane von Furstenburg
72. “It's not that diamonds are a girl's best friend, but it's your best friends who are your diamonds.”
73. "Friendships have different phases and change over time. All we can really control is ourselves. Be the type of friend you want to have!”― Jessica Speer
74. "True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.” – St. Jerome
75. Share your smile with the world. It's a symbol of friendship and peace.
76. "Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”– Marcel Proust
77. You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.
78. "Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.” – Thomas J. Watson
79. "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
80. A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself. -Jim Morrison
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82. They say friends are the family you choose, the wine to life, the yin to yang, but what does friendship mean to you?
83. “When all the dust is settled and all the crowds are gone, the things that matter are faith, family, and friends.”
84. "The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.”― Abraham Lincoln
85. "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
86. "A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.” – Frank Crane
87. It may embody all of the things mentioned above, or it might make you think of the ones closest to your heart. Whatever the case may be, it’s always nice to be reminded of the VIPs in your own life. By the same token, it’s nice to remind your besties just how important they are to you too.
88. 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.
89. "It’s the friends you can call up at 4am that matter.” – Marlene Dietrich
90. "The world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by.”― Nikki Giovanni
91. Text, Green, Font, Line, Organism, Number,
92. There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
93. "Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.” – Herodotus
94. The only way to have a friend is to be one.
95. "Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
96. Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
97. Friends are medicine for a wounded heart, and vitamins for a hopeful soul. -Steve Maraboli
98. "Ooh you’re the best friend that I ever had
99. "A good friend can tell you what the matter with you is in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.” – Arthur Brisbane
100. "Friendship’s the wine of life.” — Edward Young, Night Thoughts
101. You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
102. "True friends are like diamonds — bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.” ― Nicole Richie
103. "It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”– Marlene Dietrich
104. "In a friend you find a second self.” – Isabelle Norton
105. "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
106. True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
107. “Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends leave footprints in your heart.”
108. Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.
109. Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
110. True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.
111. “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.”
112. "A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.” — Doug Larson
113. True friends are never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart.
114. I don't know what I would have done so many times in my life if I hadn't had my girlfriends.
115. "Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.” — Misty Copeland
116. "Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.”– Emil Ludwig
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118. "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
119. "A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” — Walter Winchell
120. "The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away."— Barbara Kingsolver
121. Close friends are truly life’s treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves.
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123. "Friendship is selfless love, care, respect, and honor not a profitable opportunity.”― Santosh Kalwar
124. "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
125. 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.
126. "The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life.” — Chelsea Handler
127. A good friend knows all your stories. A best friend helped you create them. -Unknown
128. In fact, genuine friendship is so revered that there are tons of shows and movies highlighting the unique bond two pals can share. So when you do find a great friend who can keep your deepest secrets and support you in all that you do, it is important to let them know just how much they mean to you.
129. "The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.” – Bob Marley
130. “You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.”
131. "There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.” — William Butler Yeats
132. Women's friendships are like a renewable source of power.
133. Good friends are like stars, you don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there. -Unknown
134. "A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.” – Douglas Pagels
135. "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
136. True friends are like diamonds—bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style. -Nicole Richie
137. Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave and impossible to forget.
138. “There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.”
139. "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
140. “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
141. Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave and impossible to forget. -Unknown
142. Because of you, I laugh a little harder, cry a little less, and smile a lot more. -Unknown
143. Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.
144. Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.
145. I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen -Winnie The Pooh
146. 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.
147. "True friends are always together in spirit.” ― Lucy Maud Montgomery
148. "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
149. It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
150. “A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.”
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152. "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
153. “Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”
154. "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
155. "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
156. "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
157. "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
158. "Life is nothing without friendship.” ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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160. Why are we drawn to certain people and not others?
161. "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
162. "The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.” — Ulysses S. Grant
163. "The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy to your soul.” — Shanna Rodriguez
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165. "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
166. "Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.” – Anna Deavere Smith
167. "Friendship is delicate as a glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks.” — Waqar Ahmed
168. A good friend knows all your best stories, but a best friend has lived them with you.
169. "Most of us don’t need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.”— Robert Brault
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171. "A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself.” – Frances Ward Weller
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173. "Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.” – Euripides
174. A true friend accepts who you are, but also helps you become who you should be.
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176. 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.
177. "I get by with a little help from my friends.”—The Beatles
178. "Some souls just understand each other upon meeting.” – N. R. Hart
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180. "Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.” — Henri Nouwen
181. "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
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183. If we treated ourselves as well as we treated our best friend, can you imagine?
184. "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
185. "A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.”– Donna Roberts
186. Friendship is another word for love. -Unknown
187. "Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.” – William James
188. "A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” – Arnold H. Glasgow
189. I get by with a little help from my friends. -The Beatles
190. "Oooh I get by with a little help from my friends.” ― Joe Cocker
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192. The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
193. "There’s not a word yet, for old friends who’ve just met.”―Jim Henson,"I’m goingto Go Back There Someday”
194. 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
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196. "I found out what the secret to life is—friends. Best friends."— Fried Green Tomatoes
197. "Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.”
198. Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
199. The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it. -Hubert H. Humphrey
200. Best friends are one of life's truly great joys. Deep friendships like these offer solace during hard times and laugh-til-your-face-hurts happiness other times. Even if you've spent the past year or months apart, your friendship picks up right where it left off. Best friends might be the first to make a post on social media that makes you smile, text you funny puns on Halloween to make you laugh, and gift you the perfect gift they know you've been eyeing. Whether you met as roommates in college or in a troupe of Girl Scouts as kids, you're just so glad to have found someone who you can be totally, completely yourself around and know they'll embrace you 100 percent.
201. "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
202. “It’s not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters.”
203. “I don't know what I would have done so many times in my life if I hadn't had my girlfriends.”
204. "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself — and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.”―Jim Morrison
205. Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.
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207. 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.
208. "Every friendship travels at sometime 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
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211. There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.
212. "We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.”
213. "A faithful friend is a strong defense;
214. "The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.”– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
215. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.
216. "I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12.”—Stand by Me
217. "No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”– Alice Walker
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220. "Without forgiveness, there is no friendship.”― Lailah Gifty Akita
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222. "The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy to your soul.” – Shanna Rodriguez
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224. "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.” ― Jim Morrison
225. A good friend is like a four-leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have.
226. “In the cookies of life, friends are the chocolate chips.”
227. "Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition.”― John O’Donohue
228. No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. - Alice Walker
229. "The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.”— Henry David Thoreau
230. Sometimes, being with your best friend, is all the therapy you need. -Unknown
231. “I learned that you can never ever have enough quality time with Mom.”
232. “A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.”
233. "What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”– Confucius
234. Your BFF Will love any of these short, funny and meaningful sayings.
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236. "Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.” ― Confucius
237. “True friends are never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart.” — Helen Keller
238. Family is not an important thing. It's everything.
239. A true friend is someone who sees the pain in your eyes while everyone else believes the smile on your face. -Unknown
240. "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
241. "If you run away when you see your friend, you’re not running away from him but from yourself.”― Bangambiki Habyarimana
242. "One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.” — Euripides
243. Awards become corroded. Friends gather no dust.
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245. "Where there are friends, there is wealth.” – Titus Maccius Plautus
246. "Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.”― Henry David Thoreau
247. "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
248. "True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.” – David Tyson
249. "Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected.”―C.J. Langenhoven
250. There are friends, there is family and then there are friends that become family.
251. "We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.” – Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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253. Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
254. "Heck, what’s a little extortion among friends?” — Bill Watterson
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257. "Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.” – Aristotle
258. "Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.” ― Benjamin Franklin
259. "Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.”― Aristotle
260. "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
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262. Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
263. We were together. I forget the rest. -Walt Whitman
264. "There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.” ― Linda Grayson
265. "All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.” – Ella Wheeler Wilcox
266. There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends.
267. Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'
268. We could all use a reminder every once in a while of how important friendship is. Whether you’re trying to cheer someone up or add a sweet sentiment to a gift, the words below will help you craft your message.
269. "The strength of a friendship lies in how well you protect that weak spot and how well you patch it up when something does rip through it.” ― Tamsin Keily
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271. "Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”―Aristotle
272. "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
273. "Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.” – C.S. Lewis
274. Friends are important to us in a lot of ways.
275. "Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.” – Khalil Gibson
276. The only way to have a friend is to be one. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
277. One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. - Euripides
278. "Friends are relatives you make for yourself.” — Eustache Deschamps
279. "The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.” – Hubert H. Humphrey
280. “Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.” — Tennessee Williams
281. "Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts.”― Sarah Dessen
282. True friends can be hard to come by, but they are so important. They’re the people who stand by your side through thick and thin, serve as your go-to travel buddy and often offer you words of encouragement to keep you positive no matter what life throws your way.
283. "A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.”– Bernard Meltzer
284. "People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.”— Joseph F. Newton Men
285. "Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.” ― Charles Caleb Colton
286. “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'You too? I thought I was the only one.’”
287. Good friends are like stars. You don't always see them, but you know they're always there.
288. "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
289. Clever Charades Ideas That Are Great for Everyone
290. “The best gift anyone can give, I believe, is the gift of sharing themselves.”
291. "Friendship is all about trusting each other, helping each other, loving each other and being crazy together.” ― O. Henry
292. "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
293. Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.
294. No, he must have known you would always want to come back.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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Anaïs Nin
“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, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
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Shel Silverstein
“How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. 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
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A.A. Milne
“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like What about lunch?”
295. Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. -Khalil Gibson
296. Friendship isn’t a big thing—it’s a million little things. -Paulo Coelho
297. "The only good thing about times of adversity is that you realize who your real friends and fans are – and the rest go away – which in my mind is an OK thing.” – Pete Wentz
298. "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
299. It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. -Marlene Dietrich
300. The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
301. tags: desire, emotion, friendship, honesty, imagination, individuality, life, love, passion, reality, relationships, romance, truth, wisdom, wise-words19570 likesLike
302. "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.” – Charles Caleb Colton
303. “Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.”
304. “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
305. "Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.” – Eustace Budgell
306. A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself.
307. "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, Women Make the Best Friends: A Celebration
308. A good friend will also increase your happiness and help you deal with the stress that comes from the ups and downs of life.
309. Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. - Socrates
310. "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
311. There’s nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate. -Unknown
312. "Friendship is the wine of life.” – Edward Young
313. "One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words, they lie concealed in the silence between the words or in the depth of what is unsayable between two people.” – John O’Donohue
314. It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
315. “True friends are always together in spirit.”
316. A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
317. Dad Jokes To Keep the Whole Family Laughing
318. "Real friendship is when your friend comes over to your house and then you both just take a nap.” — Anonymous
319. Behati Prinsloo Bares Baby Bump in Iconic Horror Movie Mask
320. "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
321. “a friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face” —maya angelou, letter to my daughter
322. And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.” ― Louisa May Alcott
323. "Lose one friend, lose all friends, lose yourself."Why?"Because nothing else seemed important."― Boy Meets World
324. Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart. -Eleanor Roosevelt
325. "Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.” ― Robert Breault
326. tags: friendship, piglet, pooh, reassurance19660 likesLike
327. "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
328. "To be alone means that you avoid bad company. But to have a true friend is better than being alone.” ― Umar
329. "Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.” – Charles Lamb
330. I will not let you go into the unknown alone. -Bram Stoker
331. "When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.” — Maria Shriver
332. Our newsletter can save you time, money, and stress.
333. The Best Last-Minute Christmas Gifts to Buy
334. "Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” – Marcel Proust
335. "Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.” – Thomas Aquinas
336. "You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.” – A.A. Milne
337. "A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.” – Elbert Hubbard
338. 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.
339. "Never let your best friends get lonely…keep disturbing them.” – Candlelight Publications
340. There's nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more…secure.
341. Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *
342. "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, How I Met Your Mother
343. "Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?” – Abraham Lincoln
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346. What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it. -C.S. Lewis
347. "A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.” – Leo Buscaglia
348. "One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.” – Euripides
349. ".. a friend is someone who inspires, who challenges, who sends you in search of some truer sense of yourself..”― Steve Lopez
350. The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy to your soul. -Shanna Rodriguez
351. "We’ll be friend ’til we’re old and senile. … Then we’ll be new friends!”—Anonymous
352. "A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself.”― Frances Ward Weller
353. “One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.”
354. Sometimes you meet a person and you just click—you’re comfortable with them, like you’ve known them your whole life, and you don’t have to pretend to be anyone or anything. -Unknown
355. "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
356. "Friendship is the fruit of fellowship.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
357. Ni'Kesia Pannell is an entrepreneur, multi-hyphenate freelance writer, and self-proclaimed Slurpee connoisseur that covers news and culture for The Kitchn.
358. "Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience, this is the ideal life.” – Mark Twain
359. "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
360. "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
361. "‘We’ll be friends forever, won’t we, Pooh?’ asked Piglet. ‘Even longer,’ Pooh answered.” — A.A. Milne,"Winnie The Pooh”
362. "True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation.” ― Theophrastus
363. “Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.”
364. Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them. -Anna Taylor
365. "Love is friendship set on fire.” – Jeremy Taylor
366. "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.” — G. Randolf
367. "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
368. Having a best friend is one of the most beautiful gifts in life. Whether you bond over your sense of humor, work-life, family things, or everything in between, sometimes it's hard to put into words what your BFF means to you.
369. "A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked."— Bernard Meltzer
370. Hailey Bieber Emulates Princess Diana’s Laid-Back Style in New Photos
371. “When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”
372. “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.”
373. “If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”
374. Good Housekeeping participates in various affiliate marketing programs, which means we may get paid commissions on editorially chosen products purchased through our links to retailer sites.
375. “Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.” — G. Randolf
376. "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
377. "Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.” — Tennessee Williams
378. What Is Shrinkflation? Why Your Groceries Don’t Last as Long as They Used To
379. "There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.” ― John Holmes
380. Get updates on the latest posts and more from Everyday Power straight to your inbox.
381. True friends are always together in spirit.
382. "My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” – Henry Ford
383. "Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.” ― Alexander Pope
384. "An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.”—Buddha
385. "One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.”– George Santayana
386. They increase our sense of belonging and purpose and help boost our self-confidence as well.
387. "No friendship is an accident.” ―O. Henry, Heart of the West
388. Privacy Notice/Notice at Collection Your California Privacy Rights Interest-Based Ads Terms of Use Site Map
389. When you can’t look on the brightside, I will sit with you in the dark. -Unknown
390. "True friends fiercely debate issues and still walk away as friends.” ― Frank Sonnenberg
391. "Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.” — Cardinal Richelieu
392. A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
393. “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
394. "A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!” – Doug Larson
395. "Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” – Woodrow T. Wilson
396. “The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.”
397. “A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss… That’s the trade-off. But I’ll take it all.”
398. "Remember George, no man is a failure who has friends."— It's a Wonderful Life
399. Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
400. "There are friends, there is family, and then there are friends that become family.” — Unknown
401. “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.”
402. A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked.
403. "I don’t know what I would have done so many times in my life if I hadn’t had my girlfriends.” – Reese Witherspoon
404. 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
405. "There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.” – Linda Grayson
406. understand the difference between real and fake friends
407. "I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.” — Helen Keller
408. “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
409. Madison Alcedo was the Assistant Editor at WomansDay.com and Redbookmag.com.
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411. "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
412. Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. - Marcel Proust
413. A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
414. "Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other’s little failings.”― Jean de La Bruyère
415. "A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.” ― Henry David Thoreau
416. A true friend accepts who you are, but also helps you become who you should be. -Unknown
417. Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
418. Text, Green, Font, Blue, Turquoise, Teal, Aqua, Line, Organism, Parallel,
419. 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
420. "The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life.” – Chelsea Handler
421. If you live to be a hundred, I hope I live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.
422. "When you love someone as a friend, that’s the highest love there is.” ― Marty Rubin
423. “Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”
424. “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, beloved
425. "To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.” – Dr. Seuss
426. Keep the ones that heard you when you never said a word. -Unknown
427. "Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you."— Misty Copeland
428. “A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.”
429. "Friendship is accepting a person with all their qualities — good and bad.” — Mohanlal
430. “Stay close to people who feel like sunlight.”
431. "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
432. “Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.”
433. "The only true test of friendship is the time your friend spends on you.”― John Marsden
434. "There’s one sad truth in life I’ve found
435. One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
436. “A good friend is like a four-leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have.”
437. True friends are like diamonds—bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.
438. Specifically, what is the difference between the people who will be our friends for life and those who will pass through our lives for a reason or a season?
439. “Connections within a family are powerful forces of nature.”
440. “A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.”
441. "I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.”— Thomas A. Edison
442. "Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.” – Charles Kingsley
443. "Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
444. “When someone who loves and cares about me compliments me, I feel more glamorous than when the flashbulbs are going off on the red carpet.”
445. "If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.” — Harriet Beecher Stowe
446. "True friendship is never serene.”—Marquise de Sevigne
447. “True friends are like diamonds — bright, beautiful, valuable and always in style.”
448. "If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.”– Maxwell Maltz
449. "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
450. Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend. -Bill Watterson
451. I consent to receiving emails and personalized ads.
452. I may not always be there with you, but I will always be there for you.
453. Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.
454. "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”– Friedrich Nietzsche
455. “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.” — Helen Keller
456. "Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.”— Miles Franklin
457. BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 10: Behati Prinsloo arrives at the The Daily Front Row's 6th Annual Fashion Los Angeles Awards at Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel on April 10, 2022 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Robert Smith/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)
458. "Friendship is the deepest part of love.”― Thomas Aquinas
459. Easy, Cheap, 30-Minute (or Faster!) Dinner Recipes
460. "What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.” – C.S. Lewis
461. "It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.” ― J. K. Rowling
462. "Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.” ― Thomas Fuller
463. "Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together."— Woodrow Wilson
464. How beautiful it is to find someone who asks for nothing but your company. -Brigitte Nicole
465. "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
466. "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
467. "A friend is someone who makes it easy to believe in yourself.” – Heidi Wills
468. “Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.”
469. "You have been my friend,” replied Charlotte."That in itself is a tremendous thing.”—E.B. White Charlotte’s Web
470. "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
471. Text, Green, Font, Blue, Line, Organism, Number, Parallel, Illustration,
472. Terri Huggins Hart is an award-winning journalist, lifestyle writer, parenting writer, and race and culture writer who is convinced she's figured out the trick to living life with no regrets: do what you love, give love, lead with love.
473. "The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.” ― Giotto di Bondone
474. Elizabeth Berry (she/her) is the digital editorial assistant for Woman’s Day, where she covers seasonal recipes, holiday gift ideas, and other lifestyle topics for the website.
475. "Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."— Marcel Proust
476. A friend is someone who makes it easy to believe in yourself. -Heidi Wills
477. "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
478. A friend is what the heart needs all the time. -Henry van Dyke
479. I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light. -Helen Keller
480. "A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience.” – Simon Sinek
481. Country Living participates in various affiliate marketing programs, which means we may get paid commissions on editorially chosen products purchased through our links to retailer sites.
482. When Is the First Day of Winter, and What Exactly Is the Winter Solstice?
483. A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.
484. "The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.” — Mark Twain
485. Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
486. "Things are never quite as scary when you have a best friend.”
487. "May the hinges of friendship never rust, nor the wings of love lose a feather.” ― Edward Ramsay
488. "Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”
489. “He must have known I'd want to leave you."
490. Over 68 Gift Ideas for Men Who Have Everything
491. The Search for the Best Stocking Stuffers Is Over
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493. "Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.” – Epicurus
494. "There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.” – Jim Henson
495. “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends.”
496. "Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.” – Jean de La Fontaine
497. “We never lose friends. We only learn who the true ones are.”
498. “A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.”
499. "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
500. I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.
501. "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
502. “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
503. "People will walk in and walk out of your life, but the one whose footstep made a long lasting impression is the one you should never allow to walk out.”― Michael Bassey Johnson
504. "I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.” – Ernest Hemingway
505. A.J. Cook Reached Out to Matthew Gray Gubler on IG
506. "When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.” – Jess C. Scott
507. "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
508. “Align yourself with the right people, forge the right relationships and you’ll set yourself up for the long run.”
509. "We were together. I forget the rest.” – Walt Whitman
510. Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. - Elie Wiesel
511. “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
512. "Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.” – William Arthur Ward
513. "Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare — and precious as a pearl.” – Tahar Ben Jelloun
514. “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
515. "One honest friend is worth more than a million sycophants.” ― Kevin Ansbro
516. It's not that diamonds are a girl's best friend, but it's your best friends who are your diamonds.
517. "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
518. "Friends joke with one another. ‘Hey, you’re poor. Hey, your momma’s dead.’ That’s what friends do.” – Michael Scott, The Office
519. "A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have.” – Irish Proverb
520. "Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.” — Jane Austen
521. Share these short and sweet messages with your bestie.
522. "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
523. "Friends are the siblings God never gave us.” – Mencius
524. "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
525. "A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
526. "If you care about somebody, you should want them to be happy. Even if you wind up being left out.” ― Stephen Chbosky
527. 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?
528. Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.
529. "You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.” – Nicholas Sparks
530. “It’s not that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but it’s your best friends who are your diamonds.”
531. Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
532. "One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion.”― Simone de Beauvoir
533. A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
534. A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
535. "Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend."― Sarah Dessen
536. "One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.” – Clifton Fadiman
537. “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
538. "There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.”― Samuel Johnson
539. "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.” – Gloria Naylor
540. "If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.” – Joan Powers
541. Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
542. "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched—they must be felt with the heart.” — Helen Keller
543. "Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold.” — Joseph Parry
544. Let them be special and let them be worthwhile.
545. Life was meant for good friends and great adventures.
546. "[The greatest gift in life] is the gift of friendship, and I have received it; the greatest healing therapy is friendship.” — Hubert Humphrey
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548. As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend. - King Solomon
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550. Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
551. “The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
552. "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
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554. A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
555. "Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.”– Oscar Wilde
556. "The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another’s little lapses.” – David Storey
557. In the cookie of life friends are the chocolate chips. -Unknown
558. 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.
559. Best friends are the people you can do anything and nothing with and still have the best time. -Unknown
560. "Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.” — Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
561. "True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.” – Henry David Thoreau
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563. Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together.
564. "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
565. "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”– Martin Luther King, Jr.
566. "If ever there is a 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 are apart, I’ll always be with you.” – A.A. Milne
567. "While the number of friends may feed your ego, it will never satisfy your heart.”― Frank Sonnenberg
568. "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
569. “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
570. A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.
571. "Could you have a real friendship if some part of you was always expecting betrayal?” ― Hanya Yanagihara
572. “Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment. ”
573. "Difficult times help us understand who is your good friend and who is just a friend.” ― Sukant Ratnakar
574. "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
575. "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
576. "Some people go to priests. Others to poetry. I to my friends.”—Virginia Woolf
577. "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, New Girl
578. "Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.”– Mark Twain
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580. My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
581. “It seems they had always been, and always would be, friends. Time could change, but not that.”
582. find the words to tell your friends how much they mean to you
583. "A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence; which costs us nothing.” — John Tillotson
584. What I love most about my home is who I share it with.
585. "I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.” — Oscar Wilde
586. "Dear George: Remember no man is a failure who has friends.”—It’s a Wonderful Life
587. It's not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters.
588. "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
589. "I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.” – Plutarch
590. Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
591. "How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. 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
592. "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.
593. "If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever.” – Alfred Tennyson
594. "Friends are medicine for a wounded heart and vitamins for a hopeful soul.” – Steve Maraboli
595. "Friendship is like money, easier made than kept."– Samuel Butler
596. "When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.” – Maria Shriver
597. I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.
598. "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
599. "There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”―Linda Grayson
600. In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
601. "Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.” – Osho
602. "I will not let you go into the unknown alone.” – Bram Stoker
603. "If you are ever lucky enough to find a weirdo, never let them go.” — Matthew Gray Gubler
604. "True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.” ― Henry David Thoreau
605. "There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.” – William Hazlitt
606. Having somewhere to go is home. Having someone to love is family. Having both is a blessing.
607. Friends are like walls. Sometimes you lean on them, and sometimes it's good just knowing they are there.
608. "There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.” – Thomas Aquinas
609. One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and be understood.
610. "The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.” – Henry David Thoreau
611. "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
612. We’ve been friends for so long I can’t remember which one of us is the bad influence. -Unknown
613. "The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.” ― Joseph Addison
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615. "You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”— Dale Carnegie
616. "Friendship like ours doesn’t solve life challenges but because of our friendship, I know the challenges are not mine alone.” — C. Sampson
617. "True friends are those rare people who come to find you in dark places and lead you back to the light.” — Anonymous
618. "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
619. "Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.” — Richard Bach
620. Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
621. "Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.” – Sarah Desse
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623. Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. -Henry David Thoreau
624. Nothing, said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.”
625. There's nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.
626. "Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don’t over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.” – Leo Buscaglia
627. Friendship is the wine of life. -Edward Young
628. “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
629. “When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”
630. "They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.” — Carl W. Buechner
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632. You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.
633. "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
634. “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
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636. “A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.”
637. "Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.” — Dalai Lama
638. "Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.”
639. “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
640. A family is a bunch of people who keep confusing you with someone you were as a kid.
641. "When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.” – Donald Miller
642. True friendship is when two friends can walk in opposite directions, yet remain side by side. -Josh Grayson
643. You’re my sunshine and I want you to know
644. A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
645. "A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.” – Len Wein
646. "A friend is one of the best things you can be and the greatest things you can have.” – Sarah Valdez
647. "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
648. “Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”
649. "The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.”– Elisabeth Foley
650. "It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
651. "Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.” — Benjamin Franklin
652. "True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable."— David Tyson
653. "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
654. "Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.” — George Santayana
655. Friendship isn’t a big thing—it’s a million little things.
656. Dwayne Johnson Uses His Daughter to Do Bicep Curls in Adorable TikTok
657. True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
658. "A friend to all is a friend to none.” ― Aristotle
659. "In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.” – John Churton Collins
660. "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
661. "Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love.” ― Mandy Hale
662. "Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.” – Jacques Delille
663. "A friend is what the heart needs all the time.” – Henry van Dyke
664. A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
665. Friendships between women, as any woman will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses... swapped back and forth and over again.
666. A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.
667. If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
668. "One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
669. "A friend who understands your tears is much more valuable than a lot of friends who only know your smile.”—Anonymous
670. "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
671. A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. -Arnold H. Glasgow
672. "The kindest way of helping yourself is to find a friend.” — Ann Kaiser Stearns
673. “Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.”
674. "A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”– Walter Winchell
675. They celebrate with you, they cry with you, they hold you when you need to be held. They laugh with you. They're mean with you! They're always there, and it's just a priceless thing to have.
676. "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
677. “If we treated ourselves as well as we treated our best friend, can you imagine?”
678. Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
679. “There’s nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.”
680. “When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching – they are your family.”
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682. "Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.”– Ed Cunningham
683. If ever there is a 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 are apart, I’ll always be with you. -A.A. Milne
684. 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
685. Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
686. A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
687. “Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst.”
688. "Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.” ― Henry David Thoreau
689. A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.
690. "True friends are like diamonds — bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.” – Nicole Richie
691. The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life.
692. It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
693. "A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.” — Anonymous
694. "If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.” — Desmond Tutu
695. "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
696. A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you. -Elbert Hubbard
697. "Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.” – Khalil Gibran
698. "It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.”– Epicurus
699. Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. - Muhammad Ali
700. "Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer."— Ed Cunningham
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