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From the best to the worst of moments, true friendship is one such armour that withstands the test of time by lightening you up on difficult days. Amidst the toughest of times, true friendship lends a sense of comfort. That’s how true friendship is all about. From an early age, this wonderful bond named friendships teaches us a lot about compassion, co-operation, life and kindness. With time, friends turn into an extended family we choose for ourselves. Friendship Day is devoted to celebrating a bond of friendship where we recognize and appreciate those souls who stand beside us through thick and thin and are known as friends. Friendship day is celebrated by the citizens of all the countries. Toying with an idea to make the friendship day special? Send a friendship wish or message to that special person in your life. Express your emotions and appreciation for them through the best friendship quotes:-
“The Miracle of Friendship – There is a miracle called friendship that dwells within the heart and you don’t know how it happens or when it gets to start. . . But the happiness it brings you always gives a special lift, and you realize that friendship . . . is God’s most precious gift!”
“Friendship like ours doesn’t solve life challenges but because of our friendship I know the challenges are not mine alone.”
#C Sampson
“The circle of friendship is a place of warmth and caring, where people come together for listening and sharing. A place of kindness and trust, a place of tears and laughter too. I’m glad to share that circle with a special friend like you.”
#Beth Stuckwisch
“Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.”
#Amy Poehler
“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”
#Henry David Thoreau
“Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.”
#Kahlil Gibran
“The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.”
#Elisabeth Foley
“Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.”
#Thomas J.Watson
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”
# Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
#Anais Nin
“A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have.”
#IrishProverb
“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing…not healing, not curing…that is a friend who cares.”
#Henri Nouwen
“False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.”
#Richard Burton
“Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare — and precious as a pearl.”
#Tahar Ben Jelloun
“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
“Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.”
#Kate DiCamillo
“Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life.” #La Fontaine
“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.” #Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.”
#Oscar Wilde
“Friendship is like a perennial river which flows forever. It may change it’s path but will never ever dry up.”
#Pinaki Prasad Mohanty
“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”
#Elie Wiesel
“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
There are times in our life when we realize how blessed we are from the friendships we have formed over the years, graduations and retirements often remind us of this.
#Kate Summers
One of the very pleasant things about friendship is the ‘do you remember moments’.
#Faith Baldwin
“Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joy, and dividing our grief.”
#Joseph Addison
“My wish is that our friendship continues for the rest of our lives. Happy Friendship Da “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
# Mark Twain
“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
# J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
“A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other…Maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever”
# Dave Matthews Band
“I think if I’ve learned anything about friendship, it’s to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don’t walk away, don’t be distracted, don’t be too busy or tired, don’t take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.”
#Jon Katz
“Animals are my friends…and I don’t eat my friends.”
#George Bernard Shaw
“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart”
#Eleanor Roosevelt
“Friends are God’s way of apologizing for your family.”
# Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, The Power of Intention: Learning to Co-create Your World Your Way.
“Friends are a strange, volatile, contradictory, yet sticky phenomenon. They are made, crafted, shaped, molded, created by focused effort and intent. And yet, true friendship, once recognized, in its essence is effortless.
Best friends are formed by time.
Everyone is someone’s friend, even when they think they are all alone.
If the friendship is not working, your heart will know. It’s when you start being less than perfectly honest and perfectly earnest in your dealings. And it’s when the things you do together no longer feel right.
However, sometimes it takes more effort to make it work after all.
Stick around long enough to become someone’s best friend.”
#Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar
Is your heart overflowing with memories that you have shared with your friends? Let us know in the comments what friendship means to you.
