1. “Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.” — Tennessee Williams
2. “Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.” — Amy Poehler
3. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart.” — Helen Keller
4. “It’s not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters.” — Unknown
5. “A friend who understands your tears is much more valuable than a lot of friends who only know your smile.” — Unknown
6. “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”-Mark Twain
7. “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.”-Joan Powers
8. “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”-Jane Austen
9. “When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”-Jess C. Scott
10. “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”-Linda Grayson
11. “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”-Helen Keller
12. “Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”-Sarah Dessen
13.“You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.”-Nicholas Sparks
14. “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.”-Jalaluddin Rumi
15. “I think if I’ve learned anything about friendship, it’s to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don’t walk away, don’t be distracted, don’t be too busy or tired, don’t take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.”-Jon Katz
16. “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
17. “How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live ’em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give ’em.”-Shel Silverstein
18. “He must have known I’d want to leave you.” “No, he must have known you would always want to come back.”-J.K. Rowling
19. “Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.”-Richelle Mead
20. “Nobody likes being alone that much. I don’t go out of my way to make friends, that’s all. It just leads to disappointment. ”-Haruki Murakami
21. “There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”-P.G. Wodehouse
22. “Why is it,” he said, one time, at the subway entrance, “I feel I’ve known you so many years?””Because I like you,” she said, “and I don’t want anything from you.”-Ray Bradbury
23. “If you have two friends in your lifetime, you’re lucky. If you have one good friend, you’re more than lucky.”-S.E. Hinton
24. “Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.”-Oscar Wilde
25. “There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.”-Irving Stone
26. “Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.”-William Shakespeare
27. “The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families.”-Jay McInerney
28. “There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.”-J.K. Rowling
29. “A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.”-Markus Zusak
30. “The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not 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
31. “If you have good friends, no matter how much life is sucking , they can make you laugh.”-P.C. Cast
32. “I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.”-J.R.R. Tolkien
33. “I am always saying “Glad to’ve met you” to somebody I’m not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.”-J.D. Salinger
34. “Holding Eleanor’s hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.”-Rainbow Rowell
35. “I don’t trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they are going to get tired of me and take off.”-Rainbow Rowell
36. “Time doesn’t take away from friendship, nor does separation.” — Tennessee Williams
37. “It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.” — Marlene Dietrich
38. “A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have.” — Irish Proverb
39. “No friendship is an accident.” — O. Henry
40. “Friends are the siblings God never gave us.” — Mencius
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