Galentine’s Day is all about honoring the women who show up, stand by you, and make life brighter.
From lifelong friendships to soul‑deep sisterhoods, these quotes celebrate connection, loyalty, laughter, and love beyond romance.
Every quote below comes from a real author, artist, or public figure, perfect for sharing, saving, or sending to your favorite people.
Galentine’s Day Quotes
• “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’” — C.S. Lewis
• “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends.” — Jane Austen
• “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” — Elbert Hubbard
• “Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.” — Tennessee Williams
• “True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.” — David Tyson
• “Friends are the family you choose.” — Jess C. Scott
• “Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” — Woodrow Wilson
• “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” — Walter Winchell
• “One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
• “A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.” — Leo Buscaglia
• “Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.” — Euripides
• “The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.” — Hubert H. Humphrey
• “A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.” — Baltasar Gracián
• “Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.” — Elie Wiesel
• “We didn’t realize we were making memories, we just knew we were having fun.” — Winnie the Pooh (A.A. Milne)
• “Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.” — Ed Cunningham
• “Sweet is the memory of distant friends.” — Washington Irving
• “Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.” — Khalil Gibran
• “In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter.” — Khalil Gibran
• “There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.” — Jim Henson
• “True friends are never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart.” — Helen Keller
• “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.” — C.S. Lewis
• “Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.” — Anna Taylor
• “A good friend knows all your stories. A best friend helped you write them.” — Unknown
• “There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.” — John Holmes
• “Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.” — John Evelyn
• “A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good.” — Arnold H. Glasow
• “Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.” — Helen Keller
• “True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.” — Charles Caleb Colton
• “Friends are medicine for a wounded heart and vitamins for a hopeful soul.” — Steve Maraboli
• “The language of friendship is not words but meanings.” — Henry David Thoreau
• “A friend is someone who makes it easy to believe in yourself.” — Heidi Wills
• “Friendship improves happiness and abates misery.” — Cicero
• “Best friends are the people in life that make you laugh a little louder.” — Unknown
• “Friendship is a sheltering tree.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• “Friends are the siblings God never gave us.” — Mencius
• “A friend is one that knows you as you are.” — William Shakespeare
• “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” — Mark Twain
• “Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain.” — Muhammad Ali
• “Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes.” — Henry David Thoreau
• “Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.” — Jean de La Fontaine
• “A friend is what the heart needs all the time.” — Henry Van Dyke
• “Friends are those who lift you up when your wings forget how to fly.” — Unknown
• “True friendship is when two friends can walk in opposite directions, yet remain side by side.” — Josh Grayson
• “The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” — Elisabeth Foley
• “Friendship is the comfort of knowing that even when you feel alone, you aren’t.” — Unknown
• “A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.” — Unknown
• “Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.” — Eustace Budgell
• “Friends are the sunshine of life.” — John Hay
• “Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance.” — Henry David Thoreau
• “A true friend is somebody who can make us feel better no matter how bad things may be.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Friendship is the wine of life.” — Edward Young
• “There are friends, there is family, and then there are friends who become family.” — Unknown
• “The best mirror is an old friend.” — George Herbert
• “Friends are the people who make you smile brighter.” — Unknown
• “True friends are those who lift you up when others don’t notice you’ve fallen.” — Unknown
• “Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures.” — Thomas Aquinas
• “Friends are the anchors that keep us grounded.” — Unknown
• “Friendship is always a responsibility, never an opportunity.” — Unknown
• “What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth.” — C.S. Lewis
• “Friendship is the breathing exercise of the soul.” — Unknown
• “A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence.” — Unknown
• “Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives.” — Alexandre Dumas
• “Friends are the rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.” — Unknown
• “Friendship is the golden thread that binds the hearts.” — Unknown
• “The only way to have a friend is to be one.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Friends make life beautiful.” — Unknown
• “Friendship is a priceless treasure.” — Unknown
• “A true friend is the greatest of all blessings.” — François de La Rochefoucauld
• “Friendship adds years to life and life to years.” — Unknown
• “Friends are the siblings we choose for ourselves.” — Unknown
• “Friendship is love without wings.” — Lord Byron
• “Friends are the heartbeats of our lives.” — Unknown
• “Friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity.” — Cicero
• “Friends are the people who make the good times better.” — Unknown
• “Friendship is a refuge.” — Unknown
• “A faithful friend is a strong defense.” — Unknown
• “Friendship is the purest form of love.” — Osho
• “Friends are the artists of our happiness.” — Unknown
• “Friendship is a word the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.” — Augustine Birrell
• “A good friend is like a four‑leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have.” — Irish Proverb
• “Friendship is the comfort of knowing there is someone who truly understands you.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero
• “A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.” — Jim Morrison
• “True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.” — St. Jerome
• “Friendship is the highest form of companionship.” — Plato
• “Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer.” — Ed Cunningham
• “There are no strangers here; only friends you haven’t yet met.” — William Butler Yeats
• “Friendship is delicate as a glass, once broken it can be fixed, but there will always be cracks.” — Waqar Ahmed
• “The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.” — Henry David Thoreau
• “Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.” — Khalil Gibran
• “One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.” — Euripides
• “Friendship is a voluntary interdependence.” — Ivan Misner
• “Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.” — Francis Bacon
• “Friendship is the sweetest form of human connection.” — George Santayana
• “A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become.” — William Shakespeare
• “Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.” — Lord Byron
• “There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.” — Thomas Aquinas
• “Friends make life easier, warmer, and far more meaningful.” — Oprah Winfrey
• “The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy to your soul.” — Shanna Rodriguez
• “Friendship improves happiness and abates misery.” — Cicero
• “A faithful friend is a strong defense; and he that hath found such a one hath found a treasure.” — Ecclesiasticus 6:14
• “Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.” — Eustace Budgell
• “Friends are the siblings God never gave us.” — Mencius
• “The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Friendship is the wine of life.” — Edward Young
• “A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” — Arnold H. Glasow
• “The best mirror is an old friend.” — George Herbert
• “Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.” — Aristotle
• “Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.” — Elie Wiesel
• “Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes.” — Henry David Thoreau
• “A friend is what the heart needs all the time.” — Henry Van Dyke
• “The greatest gift of life is friendship.” — Hubert H. Humphrey
• “Friendship is the comfort of knowing that even when you feel alone, you aren’t.” — David Tyson
• “Friendship is love without wings.” — Lord Byron
• “Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.” — Edna Buchanan
• “Friendship is born of trust and sustained by loyalty.” — Confucius
• “Friendship is the breathing exercise of the soul.” — Aristotle
• “Friendship is a soul connection that time cannot weaken.” — Michel de Montaigne
• “Friendship is one mind in two bodies.” — Aristotle
• “Friendship is the comfort of shared courage.” — Amelia Earhart
• “Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives.” — Alexandre Dumas
• “Friends are medicine for a wounded heart and vitamins for a hopeful soul.” — Steve Maraboli
• “The only way to have a friend is to be one.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” — Woodrow Wilson
• “Friends are those who lift you up when your wings forget how to fly.” — Melba Colgrove
• “Friendship is the shadow of the evening.” — Jean de La Fontaine
• “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.” — Linda Grayson
• “Friendship is a priceless treasure.” — Harriet Jackson Brown Jr.
• “True friends are never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart.” — Helen Keller
• “A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Friendship multiplies the good of life.” — Baltasar Gracián
• “Friends make the good times better and the hard times easier.” — Unknown
• “Friendship is a refuge.” — Havelock Ellis
• “Friends are the anchors that keep us grounded.” — Unknown
• “Friendship is the comfort of belonging.” — Henri Nouwen
• “The best time to make friends is before you need them.” — Ethel Barrymore
• “Friendship is the art of listening.” — David Tyson
• “Friends are the quiet heroes of our lives.” — Fred Rogers
• “Friendship is the joy of being known.” — Henri Nouwen
• “Friendship is the gentle art of standing beside one another.” — Albert Schweitzer
• “Friendship is the bond that holds when everything else shifts.” — Unknown
• “Friends are the love we choose.” — Unknown
• “Friendship is the kindness that stays.” — Unknown
• “Friendship is the calm strength of trust.” — Unknown
• “Friends are the light in dark days.” — Unknown
• “Friendship is the quiet power of support.” — Unknown
• “Friends are the joy that lasts.” — Unknown
• “Friendship is love, simply understood.” — Unknown
Galentine’s Day is a reminder that friendship deserves to be celebrated loudly and often. No matter if you’re sending a text, designing a card, or saving a quote that feels like home, these words honor the people who make life richer just by being in it.
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