A person is only complete when she has a true friend to understand her, to share all her passions and sorrows with, and to stand by her throughout her life.

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words. ~ G. Eliot

It is a miracle when two strangers can become the best of friends, but it’s a terrible shame when the best of friends become two strangers.

Prosperity makes friends, adversity ties them: to keep your friends tied is easy, but to find faithful friends is hard.

I know the fights that we have can last for hours, days, or even weeks, but your friendship with me will last forever. ~ Lisa Totaro

A friend is a person who tells you all the nice things you always knew about yourself.

All the good times that we’ve been through, all those things we did that were new. There were moments we laughed and cried, but we always stood by each other’s side. Those many days we spent together will stay in my heart always and forever.

I’ll find another friend to take the place of you. No one will ever touch my world exactly like you do. No one who’s quite so thoughtful, no one I cherish so. No one will mean so much to me, I just wanted you to know.

I don't know how. I don't know why. But it seems you've touched my life. ~ NSYNC
Thanks for being the friend who always believes in me, who always understands, who always accepts me, who always cares.

A true friend isn’t the one who bails you out of jail. A true friend is the one sitting next to you saying, “Man, that was fun!”

When the world knocks you to the ground, a true friend will help you up.

From day to day, nothing so surely defines the quality of our lives as the unwavering affirmation in the eyes, in the voices, in the presence of our friends. It is through them that we truly begin to know ourselves; and it is their affection that assures our dignity and worth.

Then, little by little, we discover one friend in the midst of the crowd of friends who is particularly happy to be with us and to whom, we realize, we have an infinite number of things to say. She is not at the top of her class, she is not particularly well thought of by others, she does not wear showy clothes. And when we are walking home with her, we realize that her shoes are identical to ours, strong and simple, not showy and flimsy like those of our other friends. ~ Natalie Ginzburg

We all need somebody we can turn to, someone with no reason to stay. So if you fear that your sun is dying and you need the strength to keep trying … well, I’ll reach out and take your hand.

I will always be able to make it through the dark times in life as long as my friends are waiting for me in the light.

I thought all the memories were proof enough to extend my hand and help you, I know that getting started can be rough, but if you smile and you seem grateful and I feel about myself … that’s until the day you showed me that you don’t need anybody else. ~ Newfound Glory

The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life long experience of the greatest value to themselves and to all their circle of acquaintance and of activity; but for this type of friendship both a rare man and a rare woman are needed. Perhaps it should be added that either the man or the woman thus deeply bound in lifelong friendship who seeks marriage must find a still rarer man or woman to wed, to make such a three cornered comradeship a permanent success. ~ Anna Spencer

We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversation with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.

Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. ~ Louisa May Alcot

I sit and think about all my friends and how good they are. But when today is yesterday, I know things won’t stay the same. But I know the memories won’t go too far. ~ Relient K

If friends really care, they would just speak up and ask.

If I have seen farther than others, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. ~ Issac Newton

One should keep old roads and old friends. ~ German Proverb

The value of friendship is to make allowance for another’s little lapses.

And if you wanna know how a girl survives, just look by her side.

When you’re up, your friends know who you are. When you’re down, you know who your friends really are.

Cause you are my friend, you always tell me that. I'm still here because you were there.

Just when I thought that no one cared, you showed me love.

As people grow up they realize it becomes less important to have more friends and more important to have real ones. ~ Laguna Beach

And I’ve learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, as long as you have people who love you.

I’m glad you’re in love. Just remember, no matter how many guys comes and go, we’ll always be together. Friends last longer than lovers. ~ Summer Sisters by Judy Blume

No one knows you like a person with whom you’ve shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.