1. “What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.”
2. “Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.”
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3. “Getting to know new people and gaining new friends is one of life’s greatest pleasures. So conquer your fears and get out there.”
4. “There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.”
5. “Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.”
6. “The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”
7. “The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.”
8. “Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.”
9. “Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.”
10. “The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life.”
11. “No matter the topic, we’d always find logic. And that’s why, our friendship will never bore.”
12. “In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”
13. “In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.”
14. “Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”
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15. “The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.”
16. “Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.”
17. “When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.”
18. “A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.”
19. “If you have two friends in your lifetime, you’re lucky. If you have one good friend, you’re more than lucky.”
20. “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.”
21. “Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.”
22. “Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.”
23. “Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.”
24. “Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.”
25. “Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”
26. “Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”
27. “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.”
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.”
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29. “There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
30. “No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth.”
31. “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.”
32. “A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself.”
33. “Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.”
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34. “The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.”
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35. “A real friendship should not fade as time passes, and should not weaken because of space separation.”
36. “Friendships have different phases and change over time. All we can really control is ourselves. Be the type of friend you want to have!”
37. “Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.”
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38. “One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.”
39. “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.”
40. “Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.”
41. “A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.”
42. “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.”
43. “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.”
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44. “If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.”
45. “I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”
46. “What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”
47. “To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.”
48. “Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
49. “Be genuinely interested in everyone you meet and everyone you meet will be genuinely interested in you.”
50. “If you care about somebody, you should want them to be happy. Even if you wind up being left out.”
51. “Friendship to me isn’t about how much we talk, but instead how much we’re there for each other in times of need.”
52. “It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.”
53. “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
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54. “Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.”
55. “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.”
56. “Don’t be afraid of new beginnings. Don’t shy away from new people, new energy, new surroundings. Embrace new chances at happiness.”
57. “There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.”
58. “True friends are like diamonds — bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.”
59. “A friend is one of the best things you can be and the greatest things you can have.”
60. “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
61. “My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you’re most ashamed of.”
62. “Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.”
63. “All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.”
64. “Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.”
65. “My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.”
66. “Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.”
67. “Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare — and precious as a pearl.”
68. “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.”
69. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart.”
70. “Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.”
71. “False friendship, like ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.”
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72. “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.”
73. “True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.”
74. “Friendship is selfless love, care, respect, and honor not a profitable opportunity.”
75. “Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”
76. “Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.”
77. “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
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78. “Friendship is delicate as a glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks.”
79. “You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
80. “Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.”
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81. “The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away”
82. “It’s not that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but it’s your best friends who are your diamonds.”
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83. “Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.”
84. “A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.”
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85. “Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.”
86. “When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.”
