The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
2 A.M. You know. The person you can call at two a.m. and, no matter what, you can count on them. Even if they’re asleep or its cold or you need to be bailed out of jail… they’ll come for you. It’s like the highest level of friendship.
—Sarah Dessen in What Happened to Goodbye
The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
—Charles Kuralt
Friends: It’s not the quantity, but the quality that matters. You will meet a lot of people throughout your life, not everyone will be your friend. That’s okay. You’ll know when you meet a true friend. True friends are trusting and loyal. They are there for you during good and bad times.
—Alison G. Bailey in Present Perfect
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
—George Jean Nathan
Be nice. Funny. Smart. Generous. Kind. Feed your body with good food. Your soul with good friends. And your mind with new things.
—Jillian Dodd in Love Me
When you are your own best friend, you don’t endlessly seek out relationships, friendships, and validation from the wrong sources because you realize that the only approval and validation you need is your own.
—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
—Baltasar Gracián
We can let go of the person or love or friendship without letting go of the lesson.
—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success—yours or his.
—Franklin P. Jones
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
—Jean de La Fontaine
A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
—Francis de Sales
If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.
—Henri Nouwen
That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
—Francis Quarles