Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.” A true friend is the greatest of all blessings.” The only way to have a friend is to be one.” Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.”
Thoughtful Birthday Messages for a Friend
- On this day, a special person entered the world. I am so grateful for your life.
- Happy birthday to the friend who has become family. I love you so much!
- Happy birthday! Thank you for being a constant source of joy and support.
- I’m so proud of the person you’ve become! Congratulations on all that you’ve achieved this past year.
- Thank you for sharing your beautiful personality with the world. You share so much love, and today it’s all about you!
- Who would have thought that all those years ago, a friendship would blossom into this? Happy birthday, you beautiful soul!
- I’m always your biggest cheerleader and the shoulder you can lean on, no matter what.
- Today, we celebrate the incredible influence you have on us all. Happy birthday to your generous, loving heart.
- Happy birthday to a friend who adds so much richness to my life. I cherish our friendship every day!
- Happy birthday, dear friend! You’re a constant presence in my favourite memories. Cheers to creating even more amazing times ahead!
- Happy birthday to the one person who knows me inside and out. You’re the only person who can make me burst out laughing when I want to cry.
- Wishing you a fantastic birthday! May this year shower you with the same happiness and laughter you give to everyone else.
- Happy birthday! Your friendship is truly an invaluable gift to me.
- From all the great times we’ve had, I can’t wait to see what adventures await us! Happy birthday!
- May your birthday overflow with the same warmth and kindness you effortlessly share with everyone. You truly make the world a better place.
- Happy birthday to the one who can make me laugh until I cry. You’re the funniest person I know, and I hope the year ahead is packed with even more joy and hilarious moments.
- Here’s to another year of your fabulousness! I’m thankful for every laugh, deep conversation, and unforgettable moment we’ve shared.
- Thank you for always offering the best advice and being a trusted friend who never judges. Happy birthday to my safe haven!
- Wishing a beautiful person a beautiful birthday!
- Today, let’s raise a toast to you! Happy birthday to an incredible person. May the year ahead overflow with blessings and joy!
Best Friendship Quotes – Friendships come in all sorts of forms: Childhood friends. School friends. Neighborhood friends. College friends. Work friends. Best friends. Boyfriends. Girlfriends.
We work our entire lives building friendships. From preschool, where we all learn that “it takes a friend to make a friend,” through adulthood, where we mingle at bars and water coolers. – Friendship Quotes
1. “A good friend is like a four leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have.” — Irish Proverb
2. “Friendship is delicate as a glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks.” — Waqar Ahmed
3. “No friendship is an accident.” ― O. Henry,
4. “Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.” ― Elie Wiesel
5. “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
6. “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
7. “I may not always be there with you, but I will always be there for you.”
8. “Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.” — Albert Camus
9. “It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends.”
10. “Friendship isn’t about who you’ve known the longest, it’s about who walked in to your life, said “I’m here for you,” and PROVED it.” — Unknown
11. “A sweet friendship refreshes the soul.”
12. “True friends are like diamonds — bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.”
13. “True friendship is never serene.” – Best Friendships Quotes
14. “Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected.” ― C.J. Langenhoven
15. “We’ll be friend ’til we’re old and senile. … Then we’ll be new friends!” — Anonymous
Deep Quotes About True Friendship and Life
“A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.”
– Louisa May Alcott
“One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion.”
– Simone de Beauvoir
“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 could hope to see in the next.”
– Dean Koontz
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.”
– Alfred Tennyson
“Don’t be afraid of new beginnings. Don’t shy away from new people, new energy, new surroundings. Embrace new chances at happiness.”
– Billy Chapata
“Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced — true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.”
– Charlotte Brontë
“A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself.”
– Frances Ward Weller
“She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.”
– Toni Morrison
“True friends never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart.”
– Helen Keller
“The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another’s little lapses.”
– David Storey
“Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in; external situations cause internal friction; you grow apart and then bounce back together.”
– Mariella Frostrup
“Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.”
– John Evelyn
“Friendship isn’t a big thing—it’s a million little things.”
– Paulo Coelho
“Getting to know new people and gaining new friends is one of life’s greatest pleasures. So conquer your fears and get out there.”
– Tony Clark
“Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.”
– Marilyn Monroe
“For it would then be true friendship, such as no hope, no fear, no self-interest can sever. That is a friendship that stays with people until they die—and that people die for.”
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.”
– Thomas Jefferson
“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
“Close friends are truly life’s treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves.”
– Vincent Van Gogh
“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”
– Sarah Dessen
“Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.”
– Kate DiCamillo
“Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition.”
– John O’Donohue
“‘We’ll be friends forever, won’t we, Pooh?’ asked Piglet. ‘Even longer,’ Pooh answered.”
– A.A. Milne
“Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love.”
– Mandy Hale
“If you have good friends, no matter how much life is sucking, they can make you laugh.”
– P.C. Cast
“Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there.”
– Christy Evans
“True friends are always together in spirit.”
– L.M. Montgomery
“There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one’s self, the very meaning of one’s soul.”
– Edith Wharton
“That’s when I realized what a true friend was. Someone who would always love you—the imperfect you, the confused you, the wrong you—because that is what people are supposed to do.”
– R. J. L. Luis Alvarez
“Well, it seems to me that the best relationships – the ones that last – are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is… suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.”
– Gillian Anderson
