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

2. “A real friend walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” — Walter Winchell

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

4. “Don’t be afraid of new beginnings. Don’t shy away from new people, new energy, new surroundings. Embrace new chances at happiness.” — Billy Chipata

5. “Each new friendship can make you a new person because it opens up new doors inside of you.” — Kate DiCamillo

6. “No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth.” — Robert Southey

7. “Throughout life, you will meet one person who is like no other. You could talk to this person for hours and never get bored, you could tell this person things and they will never judge you. This person is your soulmate, your best friend. Don’t ever let them go.” — Unknown

8. “If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart. I’ll stay there forever.” — A. A. Milne

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

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

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

12. “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

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

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

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

16. “Best friends don’t care if your house is clean. They care if you have wine.” — Unknown

17. “Friendship is so weird…you just pick a human you’ve met and you’re like ‘Yep, I like this one and you just do stuff with them.” — Unknown

18. “God made us best friends because he knew our moms couldn’t handle us as sisters.” — Unknown

19. “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

20. “It’s not being in love that makes me happy. It is the person that I am in love with that does.” — Unknown

21. “Getting to know new people and gaining new friends is one of life’s greatest pleasures. To conquer your fears and get out there.” — Tony Clark

22. “Silence makes the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.” -Margaret Lee Runbeck

23. “So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.” -Helen Keller

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

25. “A friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.” -Len Wein

26. “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

27. “A friend is a friend forever and a good one will never leave, never.” -Laura Marling

28. “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” -Walter Winchell

29. “The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.” -Barbara Kingsolver

30. “I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.” -Oscar Wilde

31. Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.” -Anne Lamott

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

33. “Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.” -Elie Wiesel

34. “That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart.” -Kristin Hannah

35. “Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.” -Emily Kimbrough

36. “Friendship by its very nature consists in loving, rather than in being loved.” -Henry Clay Trumbull

37. “Friends are people who know you really well and like you anyway.” -Greg Tamblyn

38. “She’s always there for me when I need her; She’s my best friend; she’s just my everything.” -Ashley Olsen

39. “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” -Elbert Hubbard

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

41. “Sometimes family don’t understand you..But your friends understand you the most.” -Sher E Yazdan

42. “If you go out looking for friends, you’re going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.” -Zig Ziglar

43. “A friend is someone who will always be there for you, in good and hard times.” -Lailah Gifty Akita

44. “You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.” -Nicholas Sparks

45. “I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.” -Robert Breault

46. “Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.” -Khalil Gibran

47. “When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.” -Conor Oberst

48. “Friendship means understanding not agreement it means forgiveness not forgetting.I means the memories last even if the contact is lost.” -Supriya Parulekar

49. “Friends are family we choose. They are our kindred spirits, met by chance or good fortune and bound to us by a commonality of interests.” -Ariel Books

50. “Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.” -Cicero

51. “A principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.” -Francis Bacon

52. “When adversities flow, then love ebbs; but friendship standeth stiffly in storms.” -John Lyly

53. “In friendship, as in love, we are often more happy from the things we are ignorant than those we are acquianted with.” -Francois de la Rouchefoucauld

54. “To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.” -Sallust

55. “The worth of friend is priceless. Friendship is a topic that is deserving of our honor and attention.” -Karol Ladd

56. “Close friends support each other in stressful times and help each other to look beyond their own needs and become sensitive to others.” -Fred Frankel

57. “So if you feel like you’re happier because a certain friend is in your life, well, that’s a genuine feeling–backed up by science.” -Karen Salmansohn

58. “If you have a friend you can be weird around, then you have everything.” -Karen Salmansohn

59. “I don’t think I hould call you a friend-and that’s a compliment. I mean,look a at the word ‘friend.’ It has ‘end’ inside of it! You’re more like a ‘friforever.’” -Karen Salmansohn

60. “I can trust my friends.. These people examine myself, encourage me to grow.” -C. Warner