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Famous Beautiful Friendship Quotes
Friendship is the candle that lights up your heart whenever it is dark outside. – Anonymous
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant. – Socrates
Friendship. Like a comforting coffee and a sweet snack. – Unknown
Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. – Elbert Hubbard
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
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
Some souls just understand each other upon meeting. – N. R. Hart
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
There is nothing I wouldn’t do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature. – Jane Austen
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. – Thomas Aquinas
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. – John Churton Collins
Life isn’t about having a thousand friends, it’s about finding the very few right ones you need. – A.R. Asher
Friendship isn’t about who you’ve known the longest, it’s about who walked in to your life, said I’m here for you, and proved it. – Anonymous
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

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. – Henry David Thoreau
You find out who your real friends are when you’re involved in a scandal. – Elizabeth Taylor
Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life; you can barely remember what life was like without them. – Anna Taylor
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. – Woodrow T. Wilson
There are friends, there is family, and then there are friends that become family. – Unknown
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
Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected. – C. J. Langenhoven
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
No friendship is an accident. – Unknown
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything. – Muhammad Ali
Friendship is all about trusting each other, helping each other, loving each other and being crazy together. – O. Henry
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island… to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing. – Baltasar Gracian
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship never. – Charles Caleb Colton
A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have. – Irish Proverb
A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. – Douglas Pagels

Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff. – Jon Katz
Things are never quite as scary when you have a best friend. – Bill Watterson
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. – Thomas Aquinas
Friends are the people who make you smile brighter, laugh louder and live better. – Unknown
The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention… A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words. – Rachel Naomi Remen
There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met. – Jim Henson
I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light. – Unknown
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. – Dave Tyson Gentry
The language of friendship is not words but meanings. – Henry David Thoreau
A best friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you for the way you are today. – Unknown
The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you’ve had. – Author Unknown
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. – Elizabeth Foley
riendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. – Elie Wiesel
Silence is a true friend who never betrays. – Confucius
Friendship isn’t about whom you have known the longest. It’s about who came, and never left your side. – Mikaela Tiu

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
Good friends don’t let you do stupid things … alone. – Unknown
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
Friendship isn’t a big thing, it’s a million little things. – Anonymous
Friends make the world beautiful. – Unknown
Friends are the siblings God never gave us. – Mencius
riendship 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
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
Maybe our girlfriends are our soulmates and guys are just people to have fun with. – Sex and the City
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
A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship. – Saint Francis De Sales
Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. – Sicilian Proverb
Life can give us a number of beautiful friends! But, only true friends can give us a beautiful life. – Anonymous
ou are the sister I got to choose. – Unknown
A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling. – Arthur Brisbane
No friendship is an accident. – O. Henry
I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. – Plutarch
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. – Elie Wiesel
Dear George: Remember no man is a failure who has friends. – It’s A Wonderful Life
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. – Helen Keller
A strong friendship doesn’t need daily conversation or being together. As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends never part. – Unknown
Friends are medicine for a wounded heart, and vitamins for a hopeful soul. – Steve Maraboli
There is nothing on this earth to be prized more than true friendship. – Thomas Aquinas
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. – Unknown

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
I hit the BFF jackpot for sure. – Unknown
A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth. – Charles Darwin
The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy to your soul. – Shanna Rodriguez
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success. – Oscar Wilde
We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk. – Thomas Moore
One who looks for a friend without faults will have none. – Hasidic
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
Girls can survive without a boyfriend, but they can’t survive without a best friend. – Unknown
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love. – Hubert H. Humphrey
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. – Unknown
We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere. – Tim McGraw
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
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. – Kahlil Gibran
In my friend, I find a second self. – Isabel Norton
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. – Henry David Thoreau
Dear best friend: just a daily reminder that you are beautiful and I love you. – Unknown
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. – Samuel Butler
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
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things, does the heart find its morning and is refreshed. – Khalil Gibran
Share your smile with the world. It’s a symbol of friendship and peace. – Christie Brinkley
Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there. – Unknown
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. – Jerome Cummings
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit. – Aristotle
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
A true friend accepts who you are, but also helps you become who you should be. – Unknown
Friendship is essentially a partnership. – Aristotle
Friendship isn’t about who you’ve known the longest, it’s about who walked in to your life, said ‘I’m here for you,’ and proved it. – Unknown
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
My circle is small, but the love is enormous and genuine. It gets no better. – Alex Elle
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
There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends. – Sylvia Plath
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. – Kahlil Gibran
A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart. – Unknown
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
True friendship is never serene. – Marie de Rabutin-Chantal
Friends are chosen family. – Unknown
There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends. – Hillaire Belloc
A sweet friendship refreshes the soul. – Proverbs 27:9
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. – Woodrow Wilson
There’s not a word yet, for old friends who’ve just met. – Jim Henson
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out. – Walter Winchell
Friendship is delicate as a glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks. – WaqarWaqar Ahmed
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
You and I are more than friends. We’re like a really small gang. – Unknown
Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon. – Timothy Keller