The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart.” — Helen Keller

Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” — Dumbledore

A friend who understands your tears is much more valuable than a lot of friends who only know your smile.” — Unknown

We weren’t sisters [or brothers] by birth, but we knew from the start…fate brought us together to be sisters [or brothers] by heart.” — Unknown

A friend is one of the best things you can be and the greatest things you can have.” — Sarah Valdez

Best friends are the people in your life who make you laugh louder, smile brighter and live better.” — Unknown

Time doesn’t take away from friendship, nor does separation.” — Tennessee Williams

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.” — Maria Shriver

There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.” — Jim Henson

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 T. Wilson

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.” — Ed Cunningham

A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.” — Donna Roberts

It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.” — Marlene Dietrich

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

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

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.” — Helen Keller

True friends are never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart.” — Helen Keller

No friendship is an accident.” — O. Henry

Sometimes being with your best friend is all the therapy you need.” — Unknown

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another’s little lapses.” — David Storey

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing…not healing, not curing…that is a friend who cares.” — Henri Nouwen

True friends aren’t the ones who make your problems disappear. They are the ones who won’t disappear when you’re facing problems.” — Unknown

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

Best friends understand when you say, ‘forget it.’ Wait forever when you say, ‘just a minute.’ Stay when you say, ‘leave me alone.’ And open the door before you can say, ‘come in.’” — Unknown

When it hurts to look back and you’re afraid to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there.” — Unknown

Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don’t say.” — Unknown

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.” — Albert Camus

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.” — Khalil Gibran

Friends…they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.” — Henry David Thoreau

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.”Washington Irving

“There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.”Jim Henson

“A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.”Leo Buscaglia

“Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.”Thomas J. Watson

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.” Dale Carnegie

“A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.”

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
– Alice Walker

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”
– Woodrow T. Wilson

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.”~ Chanakya

“Friendships are among the most fundamental of human needs.” ~ Tom Rath

“Friends are relatives you make for yourself.” ~ Eustache Deschamps

“A good friend knows all your best stories, but a best friend has lived them with you.” ~ Unknown

“Friends are the siblings God never gave us.” ~ Mencius

“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.” ~ Euripides

“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends leave footprints in your heart.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

“Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.” ~ Oprah Winfrey

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” ~ Henry Ford

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

“True friends are like diamonds — bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.” ~ Nicole Richie