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86 Best Valentine's Day Quotes for Friends to Show Them Some Love

These are the perfect messages for your Galentine’s cards or Instagram captions.

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Valentine’s Day isn’t just a day for romantic love. It can be a day to celebrate love of all kinds, from significant others to friends. After all, some of the longest and strongest relationships we will ever be in are those we have with our friends. With the rise of Galentine’s Day, it’s become more and more popular to use Valentine’s Day as a chance to celebrate amazing female friendships — and from Galentine’s Day quotes to Galentines Day movies, it’s a trend we are fully behind. Whether you drop your friend a nice text or send them a homemade Valentine's Day card, these Valentine’s Day quotes for friends make the perfect platonic valentines to let them know how much their friendship means to you, on Valentine’s Day and always.

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Anna Taylor

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Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.

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Friends buy you food. Best friends eat your food.

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Arnold H. Glasgow

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A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.

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David Tyson

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True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart.

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Lea Michele

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In this lifetime, if there's anything you need, it's a best friend.

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Good friends are like stars. You don't always see them, but you know they're always there.

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Henry David Thoreau

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The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

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There are friends, there is family and then there are friends that become family.

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Henry Van Dyke

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A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

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A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden,

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Hubert H. Humphrey

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The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

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Josh Grayson

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True friendship is when two friends can walk in opposite directions, yet remain side by side.

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It's not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters.

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Oprah Winfrey

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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.

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That's when I realized what a true friend was. Someone who would always love you — the imperfect you, the confused you, the wrong you — because that is what people are supposed to do.

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Winnie the Pooh

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If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.

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Paul Valery

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Love is being stupid together.

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Saint Augustine

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

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Juliana is a writer, editor and SEO strategist with over six years' of experience on the editorial staffs of publications including Reader's Digest, Best Life and Good Housekeeping. She covers everything from holiday and home to travel and food, and lives in New York City, where she can often be found at hot yoga or raiding the candy aisle at CVS.

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Cameron (she/her) is a staff writer for Good Housekeeping, where she covers everything from holidays to food. She is a graduate of Syracuse University, where she received a B.A. in magazine journalism. In her spare-time she can be found scrolling TikTok for the latest cleaning hacks and restaurant openings, binge-watching seasons of Project Runway or online shopping.

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