Back in 2011 when were devouring Mindy Kaling’s book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?, one quote in particular practically jumped off the page for us: “One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.”
It’s so true, isn’t it? Finding and making friends is hard enough, but when you stumble upon that magical unicorn, a best friend who truly gets you, inside and out, it’s like you’ve struck gold. You feel like the luckiest person in the world having that one friend you could sit in silence with and feel truly comfortable (a quote we’d later find out slipped from the lips of a gentleman by the name of Donald Tyson Gentry).
So, we kept digging and found even more quotes about friendship that made our hearts swell five-times its size — quotes that may or may not have made us shed a tear. We’ll never tell.
Ahead, 30 friendship quotes you’ll want to share with your BFF stat.
A version of this article was originally published in February 2016.
The Ones We Trust
"I can trust my friends. These people force me to examine myself, force me to grow." — Cher
Our Go-Tos
"Some people go to priests, others to poetry, I to my friends." — Virginia Woolf
Amen
"The biggest ingredient in a best friend is someone whose actions you respect and who you can be truly yourself around." — Renee Olstead
Who Do You Call?
"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter." — Marlene Dietrich
Who Will Ride the Bus with You?
"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." — Oprah Winfrey
That’s Why They’re Called Best Friends
"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me." — Henry Ford
Quality, Not Quantity
"One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about." — Mindy Kaling
Friends Make the World Go Round
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." — Anaïs Nin
You Can’t Rush the Good Things
"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow — ripening fruit." — Aristotle
Flaws & All…
"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you." — Elbert Hubbard
The Perfect Combo
"There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate." — Linda Grayson
Friends Make Us Strong
"Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend." — Bill Patterson
You Too?
"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
You Get to Choose
"Friends are the family you choose." — Jess C. Scott
Nothing a Friend Wouldn’t Do
"There is nothing I wouldn't do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature." — Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
Friendship Shines Bright
"True friends are like diamonds — bright, beautiful, valuable and always in style." — Nicole Richie
It’s True
"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship." — Thomas Aguinas
Understood?
"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood." — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A Real Friend
"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." — Walter Winchell
Comfortable Silence
"True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable." — Donald Tyson Gentry
Go Deep
"Depth of friendship does not depend on the length of acquaintance." — Rabindranath Tagore
Free to Be You
"A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself — and especially to feel or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them." — Jim Morrison
Scandal
"You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal." — Elizabeth Taylor
Growing Together
"A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow." — William Shakespeare
Never leave a friend behind
"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 hope to see next." — Dean Koontz, Fear Nothing
A Single Soul
"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies." — Aristotle
Forget What You Give
"Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remember what one receives." — Alexandre Dumas
We All Fail Sometimes
"Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with." — Paula Abdul
Unlovable Isn’t a Word a Friend Knows
"The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren't very lovable." — Unknown
Never Apart
"A strong friendship doesn't need daily conversation or being together. As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends never part." — Anonymous
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