These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I'm washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles. The ones that you sing when you're driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them.

Alexa Vega

I consider my mom and all my sisters my friends.

America Ferrera

My siblings are my best friends.

Aristotle
Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

A friend is a second self.

Athenaeus
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Augustine Birrell
Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

Baltasar Gracian
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.

Becca Fitzpatrick
Just because I've gone and snagged myself a hot boyfriend doesn't mean I'm going to leave my best friend high and dry.

Benjamin Alire Sáenz
I wanted to tell them that I'd never had a friend, not ever, not a real one. Until Dante. I wanted to tell them that I never knew that people like Dante existed in the world, people who looked at the stars, and knew the mysteries of water, and knew enough to know that birds belonged to the heavens and weren't meant to be shot down from their graceful flights by mean and stupid boys. I wanted to tell them that he had changed my life and that I would never be the same, not ever. And that somehow it felt like it was Dante who had saved my life and not the other way around. I wanted to tell them that he was the first human being aside from my mother who had ever made me want to talk about the things that scared me. I wanted to tell them so many things and yet I didn't have the words. So I just stupidly repeated myself. "Dante's my friend.”

Benjamin Franklin
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Beth Hoffman
That's what friends should do. cherish the good and pretend not to notice the harmless rest.

Bill Watterson
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.

Bob Marley
Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more. You share hopes for the future, dreams that will never come true, goals that were never achieved and the many disappointments life has thrown at you. When something wonderful happens, you can’t wait to tell them about it, knowing they will share in your excitement. They are not embarrassed to cry with you when you are hurting or laugh with you when you make a fool of yourself.

Never do they hurt your feelings or make you feel like you are not good enough, but rather they build you up and show you the things about yourself that make you special and even beautiful. There is never any pressure, jealousy or competition but only a quiet calmness when they are around. You can be yourself and not worry about what they will think of you because they love you for who you are. The things that seem insignificant to most people such as a note, song or walk become invaluable treasures kept safe in your heart to cherish forever. Memories of your childhood come back and are so clear and vivid it’s like being young again.

Colours seem brighter and more brilliant. Laughter seems part of daily life where before it was infrequent or didn’t exist at all. A phone call or two during the day helps to get you through a long day’s work and always brings a smile to your face. In their presence, there’s no need for continuous conversation, but you find you’re quite content in just having them nearby. Things that never interested you before become fascinating because you know they are important to this person who is so special to you. You think of this person on every occasion and in everything you do. Simple things bring them to mind like a pale blue sky, gentle wind or even a storm cloud on the horizon. You open your heart knowing that there’s a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible.

You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that’s so real it scares you. You find strength in knowing you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end. Life seems completely different, exciting and worthwhile. Your only hope and security is in knowing that they are a part of your life.

Bob Ross
There's nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend.

Brian Andreas
I saw them standing there pretending to be just friends, when all the time in the world could not pry them apart.

Brianna Wiest
Your new life is going to cost you your old one. It’s going to cost you your comfort zone and your sense of direction. It’s going to cost you relationships and friends .It’s going to cost you being liked and understood. It doesn’t matter.The people who are meant for you are going to meet you on the other side. You’re going to build a new comfortzone around the things that actually move you forward. Instead of being liked, you’re going to be loved. Instead of being understood, you’re going to be seen. All you’re going to lose is what was built for a person you no longer are.

Buffalo Bill
So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the way, and I found that he knew my father well, and remembered his tragic death in Salt Creek Valley.

Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.

I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

C.S. Lewis
In friendship...we think we have chosen our peers. In reality a few years' difference in the dates of our births, a few more miles between certain houses, the choice of one university instead of another...the accident of a topic being raised or not raised at a first meeting--any of these chances might have kept us apart. But, for a Christian, there are, strictly speaking no chances. A secret master of ceremonies has been at work. Christ, who said to the disciples, "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you," can truly say to every group of Christian friends, "Ye have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another." The friendship is not a reward for our discriminating and good taste in finding one another out. It is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.

Those who cannot conceive Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend. The rest of us know that though we can have erotic love and friendship for the same person yet in some ways nothing is less like a Friendship than a love-affair. Lovers are always talking to one another about their love; Friends hardly ever about their Friendship. Lovers are normally face to face, absorbed in each other; Friends, side by side, absorbed in some common interest. Above all, Eros (while it lasts) is necessarily between two only. But two, far from being the necessary number for Friendship, is not even the best. And the reason for this is important.... In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to show all his facets... Hence true Friendship is the least jealous of loves. Two friends delight to be joined by a third, and three by a fourth, if only the newcomer is qualified to become a real friend. They can then say, as the blessed souls say in Dante, 'Here comes one who will augment our loves.' For in this love 'to divide is not to take away.’

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón
I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.

Charles Bukowski
I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me.

Charles de Lint
The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.

Charles Kingsley
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

Charles Mackay
You have no enemies, you say? Alas, my friend, the boast is poor. He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done. You’ve hit no traitor on the hip. You’ve dashed no cup from perjured lip. You’ve never turned the wrong to right. You’ve been a coward in the fight.

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Charles R. Swindoll
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.

Charlotte Brontë
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rather than for our own.

Chris Bradford
Wherever it is you may be, it is your friends who make your world.

Christopher Hitchens
What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.

Christopher Marlowe
Above our life we love a steadfast friend.

David Rockefeller
I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.

Deb Caletti
That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.

Diane Von Furstenberg
When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.

Douglas Pagels
A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.

E.M. Forster
Did you ever dream you had a friend, Alec? Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can’t really happen outside sleep.

Edgar Allan Poe
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

Edna St. Vincent Millay
My heart is warm with the friends I make, And better friends I'll not be knowing, Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, No matter where it's going.

Edward Everett Hale
The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.

Elbert Hubbard
A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Elizabeth Edwards
You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.

Emily Dickinson
My friends are my estate.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.

Fiona Apple
When I was a kid -10, 11, 12, 13 - the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that understood me. I wanted to just be close to somebody. And back then, a thought would go through my head almost constantly: "There's never gonna be a room someplace where there's a group of people sitting around, having fun, hanging out, where one of them goes, 'You know what would be great? We should call Fiona. Yeah, that would be good.' That'll never happen. There's nothing interesting about me." I just felt like I was a sad little boring thing.

Frances O'Roark Dowell
A friend is someone whose face you can see in the dark.

Francis Bacon
Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

Frank Crane
A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Frank Crane
A good motto is: use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Fred Rogers
Forgiveness is a strange thing. It can sometimes be easier to forgive our enemies than our friends. It can be hardest of all to forgive people we love. Like all of life's important coping skills, the ability to forgive and the capacity to let go of resentments most likely take root very early in our lives.

Fredrik Backman
You never have the sort of friends you have when you’re fifteen ever again. Even if you keep them for the rest of your life, it’s never the same as it was then.

Friedrich Nietzsche
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has others which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But finally there are still others which a man is even afraid to tell himself, and every decent man has a considerable number of such things stored away. That is, one can even say that the more decent he is, the greater the number of such things in his mind.

G. Randolf
Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave and impossible to forget.

Gail Porter
So long as you've got your friends about you, and a good positive attitude, you don't really have to care what everyone else thinks.

George R.R. Martin
My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.

Georgia O'Keeffe
Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.

Gillian Anderson
Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.

Gloria Naylor
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.

Groucho Marx
No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.

Hafiz
Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.

Hannah Harrington
It's harder than you think, to find someone who truly believes in your unequivocal, unconditional awesomeness

Harper Lee
The time your friends need you is when they’re wrong... They don’t need you when they’re right.

Haruki Murakami
Kumiko and I felt something for each other from the beginning. It was not one of those strong, impulsive feelings that can hit two people like an electric shock when they first meet, but something quieter and gentler, like two tiny lights traveling in tandem through a vast darkness and drawing imperceptibly closer to each other as they go. As our meetings grew more frequent, I felt not so much that I had met someone new as that I had chanced upon a dear old friend.

Helen Keller
Relationships are like Rome -- difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'golden age', and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt... that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soul mate, and your love.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Helen Oyeyemi
I’m never sad when a friend goes far away, because whichever city or country that friend goes to, they turn the place friendly. They turn a suspicious-looking name on the map into a place where a welcome can be found.

Henry A. Kissinger
We cannot always assure the future of our friends we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

Henry David Thoreau
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

Henry Drummond
Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world.

Henry Ward Beecher
Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.

Hubert H. Humphrey
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

Irish Proverb
A good friend is like a four-leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have.

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Isabel Allende

True friendship resists time, distance and silence.

Ivan Turgenev

We sit in the mud, my friend, and reach for the stars.

Jane Austen

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

Share with a special friend:

J. Donald Walters

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

J. K. Rowling

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

J. Lynn

We are your friends. It is the law of friendship that you tell us things you don’t want to tell us.

James Baldwin
People can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes them away and the great difficulty is to say Yes to life.

James Dashner
Thank you for being my friends.

James Patterson
Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls... are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.

Jean Cocteau

I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.

Jean de la Fontaine

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Jean-Paul Sartre
People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?

Jeanette Winterson
Yes, we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often. I don't want to lose this happy space where I have found someone who is smart and easy and doesn't bother to check their diary when we arrange to meet.

Jennifer Elisabeth
Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.

Jenny Han
She and I were still friends, but not best friends, not like we used to be. But we were still friends. She'd known me my whole life. It's hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself.

Jerry Lewis
I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life.

Jessica Park

The friends you make in college are friends you'll have for life, even if you don't talk for years at a time.

Jesse Owens

Awards become corroded. Friends gather no dust.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone.

Jim Henson
There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.

Jim Morrison
Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

There are no laws, there are no rules, just grab your friend and love him.

Jodi Picoult

A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you.

Joe Abercrombie

It's hard to be done a favor by a man you hate. It's hard to hate him so much afterwards. Losing an enemy can be worse than losing a friend, if you've had him for long enough.

John Evelyn

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.

John F. Kennedy

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

John Green

Being in a relationship, that's something you choose. Being friends, that's just something you are. [But] I pick you. We've been friends too long to pick, but if we could pick, I'd pick you.

I think about how much depends upon a best friend. Then you wake up in the morning you swing your legs out of bed and you put your feet on the ground and you stand up. You don't scoot to the edge of the bed and look down to make sure the floor is there. The floor is always there. Until it's not.

John Lennon
Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

I get by with a little help from my friends.

John Marsden
The only true test of friendship is the time your friend spends on you.

John Selden
Old friends are best.

John Steinbeck
I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why.

John Webster
Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.

John Wooden
Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett
True best friends never fail on understanding, forgiving, and being there for one another no matter what situation that they might be in or having with one another because of the fact of that no matter if it’s two males or females love should always be there as if brothers or sisters if they are what we call best friends.

Kahlil Gibran

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Katherine Mansfield

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

Kiera Cass

No wonder I’d never had any friends. I was shockingly bad at it.

Kristin Cashore

It was a very hard thing to have crushed the heart, and the hopes, of a friend.

Kristin Hannah

Sometimes being a good friend means saying nothing.

Kurt Cobain

Friends are nothing but a known enemy.

L.M. Montgomery

If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you'll never be and you need not waste time in trying.

True friends are always together in spirit.

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Lance Reynald

True friends stay with you no matter the distance or time that separates you from them.

Laura Pritchett

Because the difference between a friend and a real friend is that you and the real friend come from the same territory, of the same place deep inside you, and that means you see the world in the same kind of way. You know each other even before you do.

Laurie Halse

Anderson I need a new friend. I need a friend, period. Not a true friend, nothing close or share clothes or sleepover giggle giggle yak yak. Just a pseudo-friend, disposable friend. Friend as accessory. Just so I don't feel or look so stupid.

Lee Iacocca

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Lemony Snicket

Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is, because you know people who have similar experiences.

Lil' Kim

I am blessed to have so many great things in my life - family, friends and God. All will be in my thoughts daily.

Lisa Kleypas

The next time you face a room full of strangers... you might tell yourself that some of them are just friends waiting to be found.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Helen Steiner Rice

When you ask God for a gift, Be thankful if he sends, Not diamonds, pearls or riches, but the love of real true friends.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.

Margaret Walker

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

Marian Anderson

Everyone has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.

Mariana Zapata

You are my equal, my partner, my teammate, my best friend.

Friendship is the best thing that comes to life. Friends will always be there for you don't worry about the fakes worry about the people who had your back from the start and never treated you wrong always remember they are your real friends don't never take them as granted because one day your going to lose a good friend by the way your action's are when you see a good friend stick to that person.

Marilyn Monroe

This life is what you make it. Not matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them.

Mario Puzo

A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults.

Keep your friends close but your enemies closer.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.

Mary Oliver

How I go to the wood. Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable. I don’t really want to be witnessed talking to the catbirds or hugging the old black oak tree. I have my way of praying, as you no doubt have yours. Besides, when I am alone I can become invisible. I can sit on the top of a dune as motionless as an uprise of weeds, until the foxes run by unconcerned. I can hear the almost unhearable sound of the roses singing. If you have ever gone to the woods with me, I must love you very much.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

... the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.

Maya Angelou
A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.

No one can take the place of a friend, no one.

We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.

Mencius

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

Michael Bassey Johnson

People will walk in and walk out of your life, but the one whose footstep made a long lasting impression is the one you should never allow to walk out.

Michelle Obama

We should always have three friends in our lives-one who walks ahead who we look up to and follow; one who walks beside us, who is with us every step of our journey; and then, one who we reach back for and bring along after we've cleared the way.

Millie Huang

By chance we met, by choice we become friends.

Mindy Kaling

One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.

Muriel Barbery

If you have but one friend, make sure you choose her well.

Nancy Werlin

It is absolutely okay with me if you need to keep some secrets. I've been thinking about this and I decided that a best friend is someone who, when they don't understand, they still understand.

Nicole Williams

You can’t be friends with the person you were meant to spent your life with.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

Orison Swett Marden

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.

Orson Scott Card

Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies.

Oscar Wilde

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.

Paulo Coelho

Don't explain. Your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you.

Peggy Noonan

Candor is a compliment it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.

Peter Ustinov

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

R.J. Palacio

It’s not enough to be friendly. You have to be a friend.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.

Be good to your work, your word, and your friend.

For each new morning with its light ,For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

What is success? To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch. Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!

Ray Bradbury

God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

Renee Olstead

If you're picking your best friend based on what kind of clothes she wears or how popular she is, chances are you aren't going to stay in touch after graduation.

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?

Richard Bach

Can miles truly separate you from friend? If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Robert Louis Stevenson

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

Roman Payne

I was surrounded by friends, my work was immense, and pleasures were abundant. Life, now, was unfolding before me, constantly and visibly, like the flowers of summer that drop fanlike petals on eternal soil. Overall, I was happiest to be alone; for it was then I was most aware of what I possessed. Free to look out over the rooftops of the city. Happy to be alone in the company of friends, the company of lovers and strangers. Everything, I decided, in this life, was pure pleasure.

Rowan D. Williams

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

S.E. Hinton

If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.

Sara Shepard

Strangers see you the way you want them to see you. You can't fool friends… that's what makes them friends... Pretty Little Liars.

Sarah Dessen

Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.

Sarah McLachlan

I spent a lot of years on the road, and what happens is you find out who your real friends are and you find out where your strengths and weaknesses lie in communication. I've had the same friends for 20 years now and I can count them on one hand.

Sarah Vowell

Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.

Seneca

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

Shannon L. Alder

A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.

Simone de Beauvoir

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.

Stephen King

Friends. They aren’t any such thing as good friend or bad friend. Maybe there are just friends. People who stand by you when you're hurt and who helped you feel not so lonely. Maybe there are worth being scared for and hoping for and living for. Maybe worth dying for too. If that what has to be. No bad friends. Only people you want. Need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart.

Stephen Richards

Before you can successfully make friends with others, first you have to become your own friend.

The most valuable gift you can receive is an honest friend.

Steven Wright

The best kind of friend is the kind you sit with, never say a word and walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you ever had.

Stieg Larsson

To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty.

Terry Pratchett

Aziraphale. The Enemy, of course. But an enemy for six thousand years now, which made him a sort of friend.

Tehyi Hsieh

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Thomas A. Edison

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

Thomas Aquinas

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

Thomas Hardy

They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.

Thomas Hughes

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.

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Thomas Jefferson

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

Thomas S. Monson

Choose your friends with caution plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.

Tina Fey

Mary Tyler Moore was a working woman whose story lines were not always about dating and men. They were about work friendships and relationships, which is what I feel my adult life has mostly been about.

Toni Morrison

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

Vera Nazarian

Friends are a strange, volatile, contradictory, yet sticky phenomenon. They are made, crafted, shaped, molded, created by focused effort and intent. And yet, true friendship, once recognized, in its essence is effortless. Best friends are formed by time. Everyone is someone's friend, even when they think they are all alone. If the friendship is not working, your heart will know. It's when you start being less than perfectly honest and perfectly earnest in your dealings... it takes more effort to make it work after all. Stick around long enough to become someone's best friend.

Virginia Woolf

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.

W.B. Yeats

There are no strangers, only friends you have not met yet.

Whitney Otto

Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.

William Blake

I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

William Butler Yeats

You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon Ireland's history in their lineaments trace think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.