A true friendship adds value to your life. Whether your friend is close to you or far away, they are always close to your heart. Some friendships cross over into a feeling of love and appreciation for who that person is. A friend can even be thought of as a sister, brother, and a part of the family.
These 70 quotes about love and friendship express how valuable and important it is in one’s life.
Love is a friendship set to music
Joseph Campbell
I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning
Victor Hugo
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness
Euripides
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same
Elbert Hubbard
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?
Henry David Thoreau
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer
Jean de la Fontaine
Friends are relatives you make for yourself
Eustache Deschamps
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away
Elbert Hubbard
Friendship is the purest love
Osho, Light On The Path
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A true friend is someone who will always love you — the imperfect, the confused, the wrong you — because that is what people are supposed to do
R.J.L.
Best friends going into a relationship is not much of a surprise anymore, because most relationships begin as friendships and grow into something more meaningful
Unknown
Having a soulmate is not always about love. If you look carefully, you can find your soulmate in a friendship too
Unknown
Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship
Lord Byron
The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege
Charles Kuralt
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
The best lovers are always the best of friends
Unknown
Love is a friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good times and bad. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses
Ann Landers
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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes
Friedrich Neitzsche
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love
Hubert Humphrey
There would always be one person who could make every moment magical for you. The one who becomes your best friend and lover at the same time
Unknown
The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable
Aidan Chambers
True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable
David Tyson Gentry
Friendship is one mind in two bodies
Mencius
Every friendship travels at sometime through the black valley of despair. This tests every aspect of your affection. You lose the attraction and the magic. Your sense of each other darkens and your presence is sore. If you can come through this time, it can purify with your love, and falsity and need will fall away. It will bring you onto new ground where affection can grow again
John O’Donohue
Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead
Anna Cummins
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light
Helen Keller
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar
Robert Brault
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing
Elie Wiesel
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
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart
Elisabeth Foley
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
Anais Nin
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out
Walter Winchell
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed
Khalil Gibran
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A friend who understands your tears is much more valuable than a lot of friends who only know your smile
Unknown
There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met
Jim Henson
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together
Woodrow T. Wilson
Friends are the siblings God never gave us
Mencius
True friends are like diamonds — bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style
Nicole Richie
Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you
Misty Copeland
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked
Bernard Meltzer
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down
Arnold H. Glasgow
If you are ever lucky enough to find a weirdo, never let them go
Matthew Gray Gubler
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
A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself
Frances Ward Weller
When it hurts to look back and you’re afraid to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there
Unknown
Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend
Albert Camus
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me
Henry Ford
Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare — and precious as a pearl
Tahar Ben Jelloun
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine
Thomas Jefferson
The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life
Chelsea Handler
Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship
Marilyn Monroe
Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you
Kate DiCamillo
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Getting to know new people and gaining new friends is one of life’s greatest pleasures. So conquer your fears and get out there
Tony Clark
There are friendships imprinted in our hearts that will never be diminished by time and distance
Dodinsky
There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound
Diana Cortes
A real friendship should not fade as time passes, and should not weaken because of space separation
John Newton
A strong friendship doesn’t need daily conversation, doesn’t always need togetherness, as long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends will never part
Unknown
The most valuable gift you can receive is an honest friend
Stephen Richards
A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand
Kahil Gibran
Because everything of value that we will know in this life comes from our relationships with those around us. Because there is nothing material that measures against the intangibles of love and friendship
R. A. Salvatore
…while finding true love was one of the most splendid things that could happen to you in life, finding a friend was equally splendid
Felix J. Palma
Sometimes all you need is a walk with your friend with their arm around your shoulder
Garima Soni
We don’t need a lot of friends; just a few who are willing to stay true to our friendship
Avijeet Das
With so many friends and family, I am as rich as I ever could be
Amy Ritchie
A true friend who really loves you will never try to change you
Germany Kent
Works Cited
Friendship And Love Quotes (282 quotes) (goodreads.com)
120 Friendship Quotes Your Best Friend Will Love (proflowers.com)
