The measure of a true friend is how bright she wants you to shine & how high she wants you to fly." 

Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.
-Julia Cameron 

A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not for who we’re pretending to be. Each unveils the best part of the other. No matter what else goes wrong around us, with that one person we’re safe in our own paradise. Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we’re two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we’ve found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life. 
-Richard Bach

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

- Marcel Proust

“If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together.. there is something you must always remember. you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. but the most important thing is, even if we're apart.. I'll always be with you.”
-A.A. Milne

Live with intention. Walk to the edge.
Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon.
Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn. Do what you love. 
Live as if this is all there is.
-
Mary Anne Radmacher

What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories.  ~George Eliot

"For every person who might reject you if you live your truth, there are ten others who will embrace you and welcome you home."
–Marianne Williamson

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

"What is a friend? I will tell you...it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself." Frank Crane

"A true sister is a friend who listens with her heart." 
- Author Unknown

‎"Friendship is a sheltering tree." -Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine." John Muir

Friendship

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person. Having to neither weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away. ~Dinah Craik