A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often – just to save it from dying out completely. ~ Pam Brown

A friend is the inspiration in you when you have lost all hope, and they bring out a world inside of you that you never knew you had.

I do believe I know most of the best people in the world and you've all made my life livable. ~ Jon P. Shank

There are friends who are so when it suits their convenience, who will not stand by you when you are in trouble. ~ Ben Sira

The glory in friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

As I look back on all that’s happened … growing up, growing together, changing you, changing me … there were times when we dreamed together, when we laughed and cried together. As I look back on those days, I realize how much I’ll truly miss you and how much I truly love you. The past may be gone forever … and what the future holds, our todays make the memories of tomorrow. So, my lifetime friend, it is with all my heart that I send you my love, hoping that you’ll always carry my smile with you, for all we have meant to each other and for what the future may hold. ~ C.L. Purdy

Come to me when you need to be you, I'll listen. Come to me when you need to cry, I'll cry too. Come to me when you just can't take it anymore, and I'll take it for you.

I want to be a comfort to my friends in tragedy, and I want to be able to celebrate with them in triumph. And for all the times in between, I want to be able to look them in the eye. ~ West Wing

Don’t flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies, they are ready enough to tell them. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

It doesn’t matter if you don’t talk. It matters if you are someone to talk to.

Like leaves we must blow apart, but the ties between us grow stronger. For true friends never die, and in the end we’ll meet again.

When the future looks uncertain, you can count on me to be there, and when your heart and soul are hurting, just look and you'll see me there. ~ Air Supply

I’d like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me,
I’d like to be the help that you’ve been always glad to be;
I’d like to mean as much to you each minute of the day,
As you have meant, old friend of mine, to me along the way.
~ Edger A. Guest

Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom. ~ Scottish proverb

Friends laugh at your silliest jokes, put up with your worst moods, go along with your craziest ideas, and still always see the best in you.

A friend is someone who can see the truth and pain in you, even when you are fooling everyone else.

When you thought I wasn't looking, I felt you kiss me good night, and I felt loved. When you thought I wasn't looking, I saw tears come from your eyes, and I learned that sometimes things hurt, but it's all right to cry. When you thought I wasn't looking, I saw that you cared, and I wanted to be everything that I could be. When you thought I wasn't looking, I looked, and wanted to say thanks for all the things I saw, when you thought I wasn't looking.

We all remain better friends at a slight distance.

A big blow from a stranger hurts less than a small blow from a friend.

It's a crazy world where everything's changing. One minute you're up and the next thing you're breaking. When I lose my way and the skies, they get heavy; it'll be okay the moment you're with me. ~ S Club 7
Would you take the time to be my friend? 'Cause in the end that's all there is. ~ Blessed Union of Souls

We’ve been through some hard times. But we’ve made it through it all. And I think that all that it has done is brought us closer together. And if I had to, knowing that it would turn out like this, I would do it all again.

Friends, people who stand by you when you’re hurt and who help you feel not so lonely … they’re always worth being scared for, and hoping for, and living for … worth dying for too, if that’s what it has to be. No good friends, no bad friends, only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.

There’s nothing that warms the heart more than knowing you have a loyal friend, someone who will stand by you no matter what. A friend will defend you when you can’t defend yourself. What an honor to know that this woman will stand up to tell truth (or a lie, if necessary) to protect you.

A friend is someone who won’t stop looking for you until they find you and bring you home.

If you’ve got secrets you want to tell, we can talk all day long. If your dreams get broken somehow, I’ll remind you that you believe. If you need someplace to hide, you can hold my hand for a while. If your sky begins to fall, I’ll stay with you till you smile. Whenever you need some space, there’s my room – you can take it. If someone breaks your heart, together we’ll unbreak it. When you feel sad or empty inside, I’ll show you you’re not alone. If you get lost out there, I’ll come and take you home. I’ll go with you somewhere else, when you need to get away. And when nothing seems to be going right, and you need a friend … I’ll stay.

True friendship is being happy for them, even though you’re dying inside. ~ Lisa Blas