"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."

"A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself."

"Friendship: a building contract you sign with laughter and break with tears."

"Friendship is always a sweet responsibilty, never an oppourtunity."

"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what is made by the friends whom we choose."

"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."

"Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannot congeal in winter."

"If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them."

"Gems may be precious, but friends are priceless."

"Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say."

"A true friend is the one who knows more about you than yourself and still loves you."

"A friend is one who knows you as you are, understands where you've been, accepts who you've become, and still invites you to grow."

"How do you know you've found your best friend? When you are ready to talk to them about anything, even though they know everything about you already."

"Friends are like pillars on your porch. Sometimes they hold you up and sometimes they lean on you."

"You cannot say you've lost a friend. If a friendship is capable of ending, it is because it never existed."

"A friend will strengthen you with her prayers, bless you with her love, and encourage you with her hope."

"A friend in kindergarten is the one who sat next to you and let you have the pretty red crayon, when only the ugly black one was left."

"Remember that every good friend was once a stranger."

"Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joy, and dividing our grief."

"I looked for my God; my God eluded me. I looked for my soul; my soul I could not see. I looked for a friend and I found all three."

"It's really amazing when two strangers become the best of friends, but its really sad when the best of friends become two strangers."

"You lifted me up when i could not lift up myself, you made me smile when i forgot how to, you were there for me in my times of need and you were there for me when I needed nothing at all."

"If it hurts too much to look back, but you're too scared to look ahead, just look beside you and I'll be there."

"Friends: Discard not an old friend, for the new one cannot equal him. A new friend is like new wine which you drink with pleasure only when it has aged." - Sirach 9:10

"Faithful friend is a sturdy shelter; he who finds one finds a treasure. A friend is beyond price, no sum balance his worth." - Sirach 6:14-15

"The most beautiful discovery that true friends can make is that they can grow separately without growing apart." - Elizabeth Foley

"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

"Friends are kisses blown to us by angel." - Unknown

"A friend is a close companion on the rainy days, someone to share with through every phase. Forgiving and helping to bring the best believing the good and forgetting the rest..." - 1Corinthians 13:7

"Promises may get friends but it's performance that keeps them." - Benjamin Franklin

"Friendship is like money, easier made then kept." - Samuel Butler

"A good friend is like a warm quilt wrapped around the heart." - unknown

"Friends are like puzzle if one goes away, that special piece can never be replaced and the puzzle will never be whole again."

"We care, we share, we laugh, we cry...the threads of love with which to tie, the knot of friendship 'til we die."

"Don't walk behind me I will not lead, don't walk in front of me I will not follow, just walk beside me and be my friend."

"A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness...blow the rest away."

"A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else."

"Let not our friendship be like a flower that blooms only in summer, but be it like a river that flows forever."

"Like cream does for coffee and icing does for cake, friends like you make life better to take."

"Colors may fade, the sun may not shine, the moon may not be bright, heartbeats may stop, lives may pass but our frienship, I'll treasure 'til the day my heart stops."

"If you're alone I'll be your shadow, if you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder, if you want a hug, I'll be your pillow, if you need to be happy, I'll be your smile, but anytime you need a friend, I'll just be me."

"I used to think we choose our friends, but I wonder now if we really do...for none but God could have chosen for me a friend as nice as you."

"They can recylcle paper 'til its good as new, reclaim cans and use old bottles but they can't recylcle another you."

"Once the package of friendship has been opened, it can never be closed...it is a constant book always written...waiting to be read and enjoyed."

"The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch swing with, never saying a word, and then walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had."

"Isn't it funny that when you look at the sky during the day you can't see the stars but its just there, hidden! Just like a love for a friend, it may not always show up but its always present."

"True friend...you seldom know who they may be unless you're having trouble; but when you need them you will see they come right on the double."

"I'll be your full-time friend. Even if you turn away from me, I'll support you silently, I'll be your star shining steadily no matter how dark the night is."

"Don't expect me to know when you're sad, angry, depressed, unhappy, blue or disoriented but just expect me to be there when you feel any of the above."

"If the sun stops from shining, wind from blowing, rain from pouring and angels from guiding...I will be there for you to keep you going."

"A friend is someone who can see the truth and pain in you, even when you're fooling everybody else."

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