Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: ”What! You, too? Thought I was the only one.”

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 curing, not healing…..

that is the friend who cares.

If you once called someone your best friend they never really leaves you. No matter how badly they treated you near the end there still be a part of you that wishes you could go back and changes things so that they never grew apart.

Through the good times and the bad ones, whether i lose you or if i win i know one thing that never changes and that’s you, as my Best friend.

To me, fair friend, you never can be old

For as you were when first your eye I eyed,

Such seems your beauty still.

–Friendship quotations by William Shakespeare

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.”
– Pietro Aretino

A good friend is someone we can count on, as well as being so much more.
A friend is someone with whom we can relax and just hang out, have fun and
share our innermost thoughts–deep dark secrets, lofty and noble goals, or
our hopes, joys, and fears. A good friend allows you a safe space to share
your deepest thoughts and needs–without worry of being judged, criticized
or made to feel silly for feeling the way you do. Friends cheer each other on,
laugh and cry together, and just plain commiserate and listen to each other.
That’s why friends are friends….Bettie and Jennifer Leigh Youngs.

The rain may be falling hard outside,
But your smile makes it all alright.
I’m so glad that you’re my friend.
I know our friendship will never end.”
– Robert Alan

friend may well be reckoned as the masterpiece of nature.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson”

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.”
– Epicurus (3rd century B.C.)