50 Quotes About Friends That Are Like Family

“Stay close to people who feel like sunlight.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

"A happy family is but an earlier heaven."

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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