A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.” —Grace Pulpit

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

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

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” —Marcel Proust

Friendship makes a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession; friendship is never anything but sharing.” —Elie Wiesel

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

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

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

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

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

You don’t have to have anything in common with people you’ve known since you were five. With old friends, you’ve got your whole life in common.” —Lyle Lovett

What I realize now in hindsight is that there is a natural ebb and flow to friendships. There are times you think there’s nothing left between you, that you’ve hit the bottom, but the special ones survive, find ways of restoring themselves.” —Colette McBeth

I still have friends from primary school. And my two best girlfriends are from secondary school. I don’t have to explain anything to them. I don’t have to apologize for anything. They know. There’s no judgment in any way.” —Emma Watson

Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled.” —Ally Condie

Only a true friend would be that truly honest.” —Shrek

True friendship is never serene.” —Marquise de Sevigne

Hold a true friend with both your hands.” —Nigerian proverb

A good friend will help you move, but a true friend will help you move a body.” —Steven J. Daniels

True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.” —David Tyson

If you have one true friend, you have more than your share.” —Thomas Fuller

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” —Arnold H. Glasgow

True friends are always together in spirit.” —L.M. Montgomery

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.” —Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.” —Aristotle

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

No friendship is an accident.” —O. Henry

Friends should be like books: few, but hand-selected.” —C.J. Langenhoven

A friendship that can be ended didn’t ever start.” —Mellin De Saint-Gelais

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.” —Mencius

Friendship’s the wine of life.” —Edward Young

You’ve got a friend in me.” —Toy Story

A friend to all is a friend to none.” —Aristotle

The only way to have a friend is to be one.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some people go to priests. Others go to poetry. I go to my friends.” —Virginia Woolfe

I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12.” —Stephen King

I get by with a little help from my friends.” —The Beatles

Friends are relatives you make for yourself.” —Eustache Deschamps

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.” —Tennessee Williams

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

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.” —Socrates

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

The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy into your soul.” —Shanna Rodriguez