“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, amazon.com
“Life is about doing things that don’t suck with people who don’t suck.”— John Green, mookychick.co.uk
“If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you’ll never be and you need not waste time in trying.”— L. M. Montgomery, amazon.com
“He doesn’t have to love your CD collection. He doesn’t have to love your shoes. But any good, mature guy better make an attempt to love your friends and family.”— Greg Behrendt, amazon.com
“Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love,…”— Colossians 3:12-14, whatchristianswanttoknow.com
“But Ruth said, ‘Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the LORD do so to me and more also if anything but…”— Ruth 1:16-17, whatchristianswanttoknow.com
“Where there is no guidance, a people falls, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety.”— Proverbs 11:14, whatchristianswanttoknow.com
“Love one another with brotherly affection. Out do one another in showing honor.”— Romans 12:10, whatchristianswanttoknow.com
“Ointments and perfume encourage the heart; in a similar way, a friend's advice is sweet to the soul.”— Proverbs 27:9, bible.knowing-jesus.com
“No one should seek his own welfare, but rather his neighbor's.”— 1 Corinthians 10:24, bible.knowing-jesus.com
“Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”— John 15:12, biblestudytools.com
“Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up.”— Ecclesiastes 4: 9-10, biblestudytools.com
“If I call you a friend, I mean it. You are now on par with being a family member.”— Leah Remini, amazon.com
“It felt good to have someone to hang out with, who actually gave a shit about what I had to say.”— Holly Riordan, amazon.com
“The thing is I don't have any friends. Like any. It's like going to college at 36. Like none. I know people, but I don't have any friends.”— T.J Miller, twitter.com