Friends matter. The best relationships feel like friendships. Aside from your significant other, who is likely to also be your best friend, your most important relationships are your friends.
Here are some inspiring quotes about friendship that will make you want to call your friend and tell them how much you appreciate them.
“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.” Euripides
“Some people go to priests, others to poetry, I to my friends.” Virginia Woolf
“You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.” Laurence J. Peter
“In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.” John Churton Collins
“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.” Dean Koontz
“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 Condie
“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 Brault
“Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.” Friedrich Nietzsche
“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
“It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.” Marlene Dietrich
“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” Henry Ford
“There is nothing better than a friend unless it is a friend with chocolate.” Linda Grayson
“Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.” Oscar Wilde
“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
“Friends are the family you choose.” Jess C. Scott
Share this article with all your friends to remind them of the special bond you have.
