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85 sweet friendship quotes to share with your best friends

True friends are hard to find, so make sure you honor yours with these sweet and funny messages.

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The saying goes: “True friends are hard to come by.” If that’s true, then it means that the people in your inner circle are truly to be cherished. So, in honor of unbreakable bonds, we collected a host of sweet friendship quotes that prove there’s really no relationship like the one you share with your best friend.

Some of these lines are funny and others are sentimental, but they all ring true to the bond of friendship so share them with your besties. You all can laugh over the accuracy of them, and even shed a few happy tears when you think about how much you all have seen each other through.

Plenty of these would also work as captions for your next girls trip photo dump, serve as well wishes to fill a birthday card or a “just because” text to let your closest friends know you’re thinking of them.

1

Tennessee Williams

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

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Sarah Dessen

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

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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.”

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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.”

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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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P.C. Cast

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

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O. Henry

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“No friendship is an accident. ”

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Muhammad Ali

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“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.”

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Morgan Matson

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“Real friends are the ones you can count on no matter what. The ones who go into the forest to find you and bring you home.And real friends never have to tell you that they’re your friends.”

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Millie

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“By chance we met, by choice we become friends”

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Mindy Kaling

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“One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.”

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Michelle Obama, Becoming

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“Friendships between women, as any woman will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses... swapped back and forth and over again.”

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Margaret Lee Runbeck

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“Silence makes the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.”

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Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief”

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Mandy Hale

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“Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love.”

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Lois Wyse

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“A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.”

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Jennifer Wilson

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“A messy house is a must - it separates your true friends from other friends. Real friends are there to visit you not your house!”

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Jayne Anne Phillips

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“Talk between women friends is always therapy...”

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Jay McInerney

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“The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.”

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George R.R. Martin

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“My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.”

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