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55 Quotes About Friends Who Are Like Family

1) Unknown

"Friendship is another word for love."

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2) Charles Darwin

"A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth."

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3) Unknown

"There are friends, there is family, and then there are friends that become family."

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4) Maya Angelou

"There's a marked difference between acquaintances and friends. Most people really don't become friends. They become deep and serious acquaintances. But in a friendship you get to know the spirit of another person; and your values coincide."

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5) Zora Neal Hurston

"It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after get it."

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6) Unknown

“Stay close to people who feel like sunlight.”

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7) Misty Copeland

“Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.”

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8) Unknown

“A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.”

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9) Maya Angelou

“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.”

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10) Unknown

“In the cookies of life, friends are the chocolate chips.”

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11) Unknown

“It’s not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters.”

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12) Arnold H. Glasgow

“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.”

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13) Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”

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14) Meghan Markle

“If we treated ourselves as well as we treated our best friend, can you imagine?”

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15) Oprah Winfrey

"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."

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16) Unknown

“We never lose friends. We only learn who the true ones are.”

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17) Gabrielle Union

“When someone who loves and cares about me compliments me, I feel more glamorous than when the flashbulbs are going off on the red carpet.”

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18) Gina Barreca

“It's not that diamonds are a girl's best friend, but it's your best friends who are your diamonds.”

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19) Elisabeth Foley

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

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20) Donna Roberts

“A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.”

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21) Mindy Kaling

“One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.”

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22) Marjori Pay Hinckley

“Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst.”

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23) Barbara Bush

“When all the dust is settled and all the crowds are gone, the things that matter are faith, family, and friends.”

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24) Jeannie Mai Jenkins

“I learned that you can never ever have enough quality time with Mom.”

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25) Daymond John

“Align yourself with the right people, forge the right relationships and you’ll set yourself up for the long run.”

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26) Brad Pitt

“A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss… That’s the trade-off. But I’ll take it all.”

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27) Anthony Brandt

“Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.”

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28) Unknown

“Connections within a family are powerful forces of nature.”

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29) Robert Brault

"A family is a bunch of people who keep confusing you with someone you were as a kid."

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30) Michelle Obama

"Friendships between women, as any woman will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses... swapped back and forth and over again."

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31) Marcel Proust

"Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."

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32) Ed Cunningham

"Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer."

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33) Nicole Richie

“True friends are like diamonds — bright, beautiful, valuable and always in style.”

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34) Jennifer Lopez

"They celebrate with you, they cry with you, they hold you when you need to be held. They laugh with you. They're mean with you! They're always there, and it's just a priceless thing to have."

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35) Jim Butcher

“When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching – they are your family.”

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36) Grace Pulpit

"A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out."

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37) Emily Kimbrough

"Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand."

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38) John Bowring

"A happy family is but an earlier heaven."

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39) Jane Howard

"Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one."

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40) C.S. Lewis

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'"

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41) Michael J. Fox

"Family is not an important thing. It's everything."

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42) Sam Levenson

"Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together."

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43) Jim Butcher

"There's nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more…secure."

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44) Unknown

"A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked."

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45) Unknown

"Having somewhere to go is home. Having someone to love is family. Having both is a blessing."

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46) Henry David Thoreau

"The language of friendship is not words but meanings."

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47) Unknown

"Friends are like walls. Sometimes you lean on them, and sometimes it's good just knowing they are there."

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48) Frank Crane

"A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself."

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49) Frederick Buechner

"You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you."

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50) Dave Tyson Gentry

"True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable."

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51) Desmond Tutu

"You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them."

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52) Elbert Hubbard

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."

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53) Linda Grayson

"There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate."

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54) Unknown

"What I love most about my home is who I share it with."

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55) Helen Keller

"I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light."

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