A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart.  ~Author Unknown


Friendship is a sheltering tree.  ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn’t matter.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.  ~Shirley Maclaine

Friendship is Love, without his wings.  ~Lord Byron, L’Amitié est l’Amour sans Ailes

But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one’s deepest as well as one’s most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely.  Oh, the comfort – the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person – having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.  ~Dinah Craik, A Life for a Life, 1859

“Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows.”
- Unknown

“Friends are those rare people who ask how you are
and then wait to hear the answer.”
- Unknown

“The most beautiful discovery that true friends can make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.”
- Unknown

“A friend is someone who reaches out for your hand…and touches your heart.”
- Unknown

“How lucky I am to have known someone who was so hard to say goodbye to.”
- Unknown

“Some people come into our lives,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never the same.”
- Unknown

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking. – George Eliot

Most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty. – Joanne Kathleen Rowling

Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual. – Charles Caleb Colton

The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship. – Sir Francis Bacon

‘Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected. – Charles Lamb

“True friendship is a gift that is given without the expectation of anything in return. Instead the reward is the friendship itself.”

“The best thing to do behind a person’s back is to pat it.”

“Friendship is the strangest kind of love, the less selfish way to love”

“A friend is like a seatbelt, you may not always need them, but they will be there just in case!”

“A true friend thinks of you when all others are thinking of themselves.”

“You are someone on whom i depend, more than a lover, more than a friend.”

“Never explain–True friends don’t need it and your enemies won’t believe you anyway.”

“Friendship is a candle whose flame glows brighter when the hour is darker

“Two friends can’t be friends long if they can’t forgive each other’s little failings.”

Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

A friend is someone who knows all about you, and loves you just the same.
A real friend is someone who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
A true friend is the best possession.
A true friend will see you through when others see that you are through.

Hold a good friend in both your hands.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.  ~Katherine Mansfield


A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself.  ~Frances Ward Weller

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

If you’re alone, I’ll be your shadow.  If you want to cry, I’ll be your shoulder.  If you want a hug, I’ll be your pillow.  If you need to be happy, I’ll be your smile.  But anytime you need a friend, I’ll just be me.  ~Author Unknown

A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should.  ~Author Unknown

“My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.”
– Solomon Ibn Gabirol

“Your friend is your needs answered.”
– Kahil Gibran

“Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.”
– Kahil Gibran.

“Let your best be for your friend…”
– Kahil Gibran

“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.”
– Kahil Gibran

“A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.”
– Homer (9th century B.C.)

“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.”
– Samuel Johnson

“True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost”
– Charles Caleb Colton (1825)

“Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.”
– Epicurus (3rd century B.C.)

“Friends show their love in times of trouble…”
– Euripides (408 B.C.)

“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.”
– Euripides (408 B.C.)

“A good friend is my nearest relation.”
– Thomas Fuller (1732)

“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.” – Bernard Meltzer

“Give me one friend, just one, who meets the needs of all my varying moods.” – Esther M. Clark

“Love is blind. Friendship tries not to notice.” – Anonymous

“I got a lot of best friends. Some o’ them I don’t even hardly know!” – Archie Bunker

“It takes a long time to grow an old friend.” – John Leonard

“Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.” – Silican proverb.

“Friends are God’s ways of apologizing for our families.” – Anonymous

“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.” – Charles Lamb

Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you always know they are there.

Friends are God’s way of taking care of us.

Some people make the world special just by being in it.

Seasons may come and go but a friend is forever.

Sometimes people come into your life and you know right away they were meant to be there…to serve some sort of purpose, teach you a lesson or help figure out who you are or who you want to become.

“Friendship consists of only one soul; inhabiting two bodies.” — Aristotle

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