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100 Sweet Friendship Quotes You Need To Share With Your Best Friend

Tell your friends just how much they mean with these thoughtful sayings.

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Where would we be without our friendships? Your friends are the people who love and support you through all stages of life. They're there in the exciting moments, when you get a new job or are celebrating a milestone birthday. And they're there in the tougher chapters of life, like when you get a bad haircut, go through a breakup, or are grieving a loved one. They lift you up when you need it, but they're not afraid to be real with you when it's helpful. These friendship quotes emphasize everything that's great about having a friend. They will make you grateful for all the friends you've made in your life, from your childhood bestie to the friends you met later in life.

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1

Bernard Meltzer

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“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.”

2

George Herbert

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“The best mirror is an old friend.”

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3

Jane Fonda

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“Women’s friendships are like a renewable source of power.”

4

Virginia Woolf

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“Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.”

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5

Bill Watterson

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“Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.”

6

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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7

Oscar Wilde

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“A good friend will always stab you in the front.”

8

Katherine Mansfield

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“I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.”

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9

Amy Poehler

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"Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life."

10

Carl Buechner

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"They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel."

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11

Kate DiCamillo

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"Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you."

12

Tennessee Williams

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“Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation.”

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13

Sylvia Plath

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“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”

14

Sarah Dessen

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“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”

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15

S.E. Hinton

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“If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.”

16

Richard Bach

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“Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.”

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17

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.”

18

P.G. Wodehouse

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“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”

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19

P.C. Cast

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“If you have good friends, no matter how much life is sucking, they can make you laugh.”

20

O. Henry

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“No friendship is an accident. ”

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