1. Friends are friends forever. If the Lord’s the Lord of them, a friend will not say never ’cause the welcome will not end. Although it’s hard to let you go, in the Father’s hands we know, a lifetime’s not too long to live as friends.-Michael W. Smith
2. I hope we’ll be friends forever, together we’ll always be. I don’t think you understand just how much you mean to me. And one day when we part our ways, we’ll think back to the past and think about how happy we are ’cause our friendship will always last.-Bridget Davis
3. Silence makes the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.-Margaret Lee Runbeck
4. So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.-Helen Keller
5. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing… not healing, not curing… that is a friend who cares.-Henri Nouwen
6. Close friends are truly life’s treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.-Vincent Van Gogh
7. A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.-Donna Roberts
8. A friend is a hand that is always holding yours, no matter how close or far apart you may be. A friend is someone who is always there and will always, always care. A friend is a feeling of forever in the heart.-Henri Nouwen
9. A friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.-Len Wein
10. 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
11. A friend is a friend forever and a good one will never leave, never.-Laura Marling
12. A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.-Walter Winchell
13. That was the thing about best friends. Like sisters and mothers, they could piss you off and make you cry and break your heart, but in the end, when the chips were down, they were there, making you laugh even in your darkest hours.-Kristin Hannah
14. The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.-Barbara Kingsolver
15. I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.-Oscar Wilde
16. Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.-Anne Lamott
17. A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself.-Frances Ward Weller
18. Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.-Elie Wiesel
19. That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart.-Kristin Hannah
20. Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.-Emily Kimbrough
21. Friendship by its very nature consists in loving, rather than in being loved.-Henry Clay Trumbull
22. Friends are people who know you really well and like you anyway.-Greg Tamblyn
23. She’s always there for me when I need her; She’s my best friend; she’s just my everything.-Ashley Olsen
24. A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.-Elbert Hubbard
25. A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.-Grace Pulpit
26. Sometimes family don’t understand you..But your friends understand you the most.-Sher E Yazdan
27. To my mind, the only possible pet is a cow. Cows love you. . . . They will listen to your problems and never ask a thing in return. They will be your friends forever. And when you get tired of them, you can kill and eat them. Perfect.-Bill Bryson
28. If you go out looking for friends, you’re going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.-Zig Ziglar
29. In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things, does the heart find its morning and is refreshed.-Khalil Gibran