1. “Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”―Elie Wiesel
2. “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
3. “A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” – Arnold H. Glasgow
4. “Some people go to priests. Others to poetry. I to my friends.”—Virginia Woolf
5. “Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.” — Misty Copeland
6. “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
7. “The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life.” – Chelsea Handler8. “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
8. “The only way to have a friend is to be one.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
9. “A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.” – Elbert Hubbard
10. “A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.” – Leo Buscaglia
11. “One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.” – Euripides
12. “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
13. “One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.”– George Santayana
14. “I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.” – Ernest Hemingway
15. “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
16. “There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.” – Jim Henson
17. “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
18. “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.”
19. “[The greatest gift in life] is the gift of friendship, and I have received it; the greatest healing therapy is friendship.” — Hubert Humphrey
20. “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
21. “One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
22. “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
23. “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.
24. “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
25. “Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.” – Thomas Aquinas
26. “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
27. “Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.” – Anna Deavere Smith
28. “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
29. “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
30. “Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.” – Francesco Guicciardini
31. “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
32. “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
33. “The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy to your soul.” – Shanna Rodriguez
34. “A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience.” – Simon Sinek
35. “A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!” – Doug Larson
36. “True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.” – Henry David Thoreau
37. “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
38. “Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare — and precious as a pearl.” – Tahar Ben Jelloun
39. “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.” ―
40. “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
41. “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
42. “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
43. “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
44. “The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.” — Barbara Kingsolver
45. “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
46. “The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
47. “Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.” – Samuel Butler
48. “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
