When you're with someone you trust in, never needing to pretend; someone who helps you to know yourself, you know you're among friends. ~ Amanda Bradley

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 have really learned the meaning of anything.

We must not love our friends for what they are, but love them for the angel they might be.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend. ~ John Leonard

I hate how we have stupid fake conversations. We're supposed to be friends. You're not supposed to ask how I'm doing; you're supposed to know by the sound of my voice. I'm not supposed to ask what you've been up to; I'm supposed to be doing things with you. We're not supposed to have that awkward silence; we're supposed to talk non-stop. But I guess if we don't know these things then we're not supposed to be friends. ~ Kelsey West

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

Things are never quite so scary when you’ve got a best friend. ~ Calvin and Hobbes

To be honest, I don’t have the words to make you feel better, but I do have arms to give you a hug. I have earls to listen to whatever you want to talk about, and I have a heart – a heart that is aching to see you smile again.

I've brought to you my insecurities and laid them carefully around you, hoping that you would deal with them gently. You stood beside me when so many have walked away. You sheltered me with affection and I felt more secure. You did not treat me with insignificance, but you showed me a brighter side. ~ Sherrie L. Householder

A true friend is someone to whom you can tell everything, but to whom you don’t have to tell anything.

A friend is someone who has the courage to tell you when you are wrong.

I never thought I’d find someone whose heart could read my mind.

A single rose can be my garden, a single friend, my world.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us. ~ Epicures
You have been such a great friend through all of this. Many times you've been the only person I could talk to about it. Thank you so much for that. You mean the world to me. ~ Michelle Burns

Just thinking about a friend makes you want to do a happy dance, because a friend is someone who loves you in spite of your faults. ~ Charles Schultz

Friends come and go. But there are always those few special friends that will stick around no matter what, and help you out through anything … even if you’re not as close as you used to be.

Whenever I was down, you were there comfort me, no one else can be what you have been for me.

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you.

Friendship brought us together, laughter got us through. Life will take us our own ways, and love will make our dreams come true.

The silver friend knows your present and the gold friend knows all of your past dirt and glories. Once in a blue moon, there’s someone who knows it all, someone who knows and accepts you unconditionally, someone who’s there for life. ~ Jill McCorkie

Two good friends are like pillars on a porch. Sometimes holding one another, sometimes leaning on one another, and always standing by one another.

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

At times, when I feel all alone, I think of you and my heart heads home. Memories path will have no end when shared with you, my wonderful friend.

Something tells me that whatever happens with us, whether we stay together or go our separate ways … no matter what, neither one of us will ever forget the time we spent together.

I always got my girls behind me - smiling with me, crying with me, shining with me. And after everything we put each other through, I love the fact that we always stay true!

Be slow in choosing a friend and slower in changing. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few. And let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. ~ George Washington

Smile and everyone loves you; cry and you find your true friends.