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.
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The Ones We Trust
Image Credit: Karen Cox/SheKnows. "I can trust my friends. These people force me to examine myself, force me to grow." — Cher
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Our Go-Tos
Image Credit: Karen Cox/SheKnows. "Some people go to priests, others to poetry, I to my friends." — Virginia Woolf
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Amen
Image Credit: Karen Cox/SheKnows. "The biggest ingredient in a best friend is someone whose actions you respect and who you can be truly yourself around." — Renee Olstead
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Who Do You Call?
Image Credit: Karen Cox/SheKnows. "It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter." — Marlene Dietrich
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Who Will Ride the Bus with You?
Image Credit: Karen Cox/SheKnows. "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
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That’s Why They’re Called Best Friends
Image Credit: Karen Cox/SheKnows. "My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me." — Henry Ford
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Quality, Not Quantity
Image Credit: Karen Cox/SheKnows. "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
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Friends Make the World Go Round
Image Credit: Karen Cox/SheKnows. "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
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You Can’t Rush the Good Things
Image Credit: Karen Cox/SheKnows. "Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow — ripening fruit." — Aristotle
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Flaws & All…
Image Credit: Karen Cox/SheKnows. "A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you." — Elbert Hubbard
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The Perfect Combo
Image Credit: Karen Cox/SheKnows. "There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate." — Linda Grayson
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Friends Make Us Strong
Image Credit: Karen Cox/SheKnows. "Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend." — Bill Patterson
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You Too?
Image Credit: Karen Cox/SheKnows. "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
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You Get to Choose
Image Credit: Karen Cox/SheKnows. "Friends are the family you choose." — Jess C. Scott
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Nothing a Friend Wouldn’t Do
Image Credit: Karen Cox/SheKnows. "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
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Friendship Shines Bright
Image Credit: Karen Cox/SheKnows. "True friends are like diamonds — bright, beautiful, valuable and always in style." — Nicole Richie
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It’s True
Image Credit: Karen Cox/SheKnows. "There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship." — Thomas Aguinas
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Understood?
Image Credit: Karen Cox/SheKnows. "One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood." — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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A Real Friend
Image Credit: Karen Cox/SheKnows. "A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." — Walter Winchell
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Comfortable Silence
Image Credit: Karen Cox/SheKnows. "True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable." — Donald Tyson Gentry
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Go Deep
Image Credit: Karen Cox/SheKnows. "Depth of friendship does not depend on the length of acquaintance." — Rabindranath Tagore
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Free to Be You
Image Credit: Karen Cox/SheKnows. "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
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Scandal
Image Credit: Karen Cox/SheKnows. "You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal." — Elizabeth Taylor
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Growing Together
Image Credit: Karen Cox/SheKnows. "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
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Never leave a friend behind
Image Credit: Karen Cox/Getty Images. "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
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A Single Soul
Image Credit: Karen Cox/SheKnows. "What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies." — Aristotle
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Forget What You Give
Image Credit: Karen Cox/SheKnows. "Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remember what one receives." — Alexandre Dumas
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We All Fail Sometimes
Image Credit: Karen Cox/SheKnows. "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
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Unlovable Isn’t a Word a Friend Knows
Image Credit: Karen Cox/SheKnows. "The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren't very lovable." — Unknown
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Never Apart
Image Credit: Karen Cox/SheKnows. "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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Share Away
Image Credit: Karen Cox/SheKnows. Pin these quotes and share with your BFF!
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