Friendship is one of life’s most valuable treasures. It’s the quiet comfort in a crisis, the shared laughter in the good times, and the invisible thread that connects us even when miles apart.
- “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
— Walter Winchell - “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 on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”
— Thomas Aquinas - “Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero - “True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.”
— David Tyson
- “Friends are the family we choose.”
— Unknown - “Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there.”
— Christy Evans - “Life is better with true friends.”
— Unknown - “Friendship isn’t about whom you’ve known the longest. It’s about who walked into your life and never left.”
— Unknown - “A sweet friendship refreshes the soul.”
— Proverbs 27:9
- “We’ll be friends until we’re old and senile… then we’ll be new friends.”
— Unknown - “A good friend will help you move. But a best friend will help you move a dead body.”
— Jim Hayes - “Friends buy you food. Best friends eat your food.”
— Unknown - “You don’t have to be crazy to be my friend—I’ll train you.”
— Unknown - “Real friendship is when your friend comes over to your house and then you both just take a nap.”
— Unknown
- “Friendship is not about who you’ve known the longest; it’s about who came and never left your side.”
— Yasmin Mogahed - “Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.”
— Anaïs Nin - “Some souls just understand each other upon meeting.”
— N.R. Hart - “In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures.”
— Kahlil Gibran - “It’s the friends you can call at 2 a.m. that matter.”
— Marlene Dietrich
- “True friends are never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart.”
— Helen Keller - “Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.”
— Ed Cunningham - “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
— Elbert Hubbard - “A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.”
— Leo Buscaglia - “Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”
— Woodrow Wilson
- “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 - “The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.”
— Elisabeth Foley - “A true friend is the greatest of all blessings.”
— François de La Rochefoucauld - “Friendship is not a big thing—it’s a million little things.”
— Unknown - “Friendship is delicate as a glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks.”
— Waqar Ahmed
- “Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.”
— Oprah Winfrey - “Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.”
— John Evelyn - “It takes a long time to grow an old friend.”
— John Leonard - “You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing.”
— E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web - “Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.”
— Misty Copeland
- “Because of you, I laugh a little harder, cry a little less, and smile a lot more.”
— Unknown - “Here’s to the nights that turned into mornings with the friends that turned into family.”
— Unknown - “Thank you for being the reason I smile.”
— Unknown - “Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.”
— Unknown - “Your friendship means the world to me.”
— Unknown
True friendship is rare, beautiful, and worth cherishing. These quotes remind us how powerful the right people can be in our lives supporting us, laughing with us, growing with us.
“I’m grateful for you.”
