“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
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.” — Jane Austen
“True friends are always together in spirit.” — L.M. Montgomery
“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” — Aristotle
“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
“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
“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” — Elbert Hubbard
“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” — Woodrow Wilson
“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
“When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.” — Jess C. Scott
“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.” — Henri Nouwen
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” — Walter Winchell
“No matter how tired I am, I get dinner at least once a week with my girlfriends. Or have a sleepover. Otherwise my life is just all work.” — Jennifer Lawrence
“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.” — Helen Keller
“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.” — Sarah Dessen
“I don’t know what I would have done so many times in my life if I hadn’t had my girlfriends.” — Reese Witherspoon
“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
“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
“‘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.’” — E.B. White
“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.” — Henry David Thoreau
“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
“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
“We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and siblings to your friends—your own chosen family. There’s nothing like a really loyal, dependable good friend. Nothing.” — Jennifer Aniston
“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like ‘What about lunch?’” — A.A. Milne
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.” — Alice Walker
“A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.” — Donna Roberts
“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
“To have a few amazing friends on this side of eternity, this sometimes grotesque amusement park, is the greatest joy.” — Ann Lamott
“Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.” — William Shakespeare
“Growing apart doesn’t change the face that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that.” — Ally Condie
“The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” — Elisabeth Foley
“The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families.” — Jay McInerney
“A true friendship is the best possession.” — Ben Franklin
“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
“‘Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.” — Charles Lamb
“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.” — Elie Wiesel
“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
“When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.” — George R.R. Martin
“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“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
“You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.” — Alexander McCall Smith
“Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.” — Amos Bronson Alcott
“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” — Oprah Winfrey
“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.” — Linda Grayson
“The best mirror is an old friend.” — George Herbert
“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.” — Khalil Gibran
“Always remember your friends will be there quicker than your family. Learn to remember you got great friends, don’t forget that and they will always care for you no matter what.” — Marilyn Monroe
“The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.” — Barbara Kingsolver
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.” — Aristotle
“Talk between women friends is always therapy…” — Jayne Anne Phillips
“Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.” — R.J. Palacio
“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
“There’s not a word yet, for old friends who’ve just met.” — Jim Henson
“There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.” — John Holmes
“We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust.” — David Levithan
“‘I wonder what Piglet is doing,’ thought Pooh. ‘I wish I were there to be doing it, too.’” — A.A. Milne
“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.” — Ray Bradbury
“I don’t care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching – they are your family.” — Jim Butcher
“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
“I can trust my friends. These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow.” — Cher
“The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.” — Henry David Thoreau
“A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.” — Maya Angelou
“Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.” — Richard Bach
“No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.” — Khalil Gibran
“My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you’re most ashamed of.” — Jodie Foster
“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.” — Henry David Thoreau
“Time doesn’t take away from friendship, nor does separation.” — Tennessee Williams
“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.” — Jim Morrison
“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
“When women support each other, we accomplish amazing things. Celebrate the women who lean in together with you.” — Victoria Beckham
“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
“It doesn’t take money to turn off the television and cultivate real bonding time.” — Marianne Williamson
“Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.” — Rumi
“A bond between souls is ancient - older than the planet.” — Dianna Hardy
“When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men and women are approaching an inevitable doom: the consciousness of it should make us more kindly and considerate of each other. This feeling should make men and women use their best efforts to help their fellow travelers on the road, to make the path brighter and easier as we journey on. It should bring a closer kinship, a better understanding, and a deeper sympathy for the wayfarers who must live a common life and die a common death.” — Clarence Darrow
“What joy to fully know and feel the bond of true friendship.” — Jaye L. Knight
“How we need another soul to cling to.” — Sylvia Path
“I have learned to be with those I like is enough.” — Walt Whitman
“She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people…” — Nicholas Sparks
“It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.” — John Joseph Powell
“An apple tree is just like a person. In order to thrive, it needs companionship that’s similar to it in some ways, but quite different than others.” — Jeffrey Stepakoff
“Is there a broth more restoring than company?” — Kelly Corrigan
“Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or a friendship, is conversation.” — Oscar Wilde
“The greatest gift of life is friendship.” — Hubert H. Humphrey
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” — Marcel Proust
“A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have.” — Irish proverb
“Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.” — Anna Taylor
“The best time to make friends is before you need them.” — Ethel Barrymore
“Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.” — Bill Watterson
“The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life.” — Chelsea Handler
“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
“The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.” — William Blake
“Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.” — Amy Poehler
“A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart.” — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.” — Proverbs 27:17
“Friendship is a sheltering tree.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“In my friend, I find a second self.” — Isabel Norton
“Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.” — Lois L. Kaufman
“Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.” — Richard Bach
“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
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