WHAT IS FRIENDSHIP DAY?

 HISTORY OF FRIENDSHIP DAY

friends may die..but friendship...never dies.......

Friendship Day takes place on the first Sunday of August every year.This year on 7th august 2011. It is one day of the year we can say thank you to our friends.The tradition began in the USA in 1935 and has slowly spread around the world. The U.S. Congress declared Friendship Day as a national celebration. It still has a way to go before it is as popular as Mother’s Day and Father’s Day. On Friendship Day people spend time with their friends and exchange presents. Some people send cards, write special songs or bake friendship cakes. One great way to celebrate is to make a poster or create an album about your friend or friends. Perhaps include Winnie the Pooh on it because the United Nations made Pooh the world’s Ambassador of Friendship in 1997.

Friends are extremely important to us. They are often like members of our own family. In fact, many people spend more time with their friends than with their relatives. People also tell their friends more secrets. We start friendships almost from the time we can walk.Everyone has special childhood friends, and some of these become lifelong friends. We usually meet out best friends early on in our life. Best friends usually stay best friends forever. Nowadays the Internet has changed the way we make friends. Many people strike up friendships online. The Web is also useful to find long-lost friends. There are many sites to find old friends.

Friendship Day Quotes-2011/SMS/TEXT

"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still

likes you."

Friendship Day Quotes by: Elbert Hubard

"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is

seldom known until it be lost."

Quotes by: Ch Charles Caleb Colton

"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."

Friendship Day Quotes by: Anais Nin

"My friends are my estate."

Friendship Day Quotes by: Emily Dickinson

mily "A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the

world walks out."

Friendship Day Quotes by: Walter Winchell

"A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather

be anywhere else."

Friendship Day Quotes by: Len Wein

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart,

and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the

words."

Friendship Day Quotes by: Unknown

"A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased

to believe in yourself."

"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.

Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.

Walk beside me and be my friend."

Friendship Day Quotes by: Albert Camus

"A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth

"Everyone is a friend, until they prove otherwise."

"Every person is a new door to a different world."

"It takes a long time to grow an old friend."

Friendship Day Quotes by: John Leonard

"I get by with a little help from my friends."

Friendship Day Quotes by: John Lennon

"Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend,

but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a

friend's success."

Friendship Day Quotes by: Oscar Wilde

"Two are better than one; because they have a good reward

for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his

fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he

hath not another to help him up."

Friendship Day Quotes by: Bible: Ecclesiastes

"Two may talk together under the same roof for many

years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech

are old friends."

Friendship Day Quotes by: Mary Catherwood

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It

has no survival value; rather is one of those things that

give value to survival."

Friendship Day Quotes by: C. S. Lewis

"I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not

ask me to do up a parcel."

Friendship Day Quotes by: Logan Pearsall Smith

"Friends are the most important ingredient in this recipe of

life."

"The better part of one's life consists of his friendships."

Friendship Day Quotes by: Abraham Lincoln

"The love of my life is the love between friends."

"One's best friend is oneself."

Friendship Day Quotes by: Unknown

"A Friend is someone who knows all about you and loves

you anyway!!!"

Friendship Day Quotes by: Unknown

"To be depressed is to be lonely; to have a friend is to be

happy..."

Friendship Day Quotes by: Guido

Friendship is like a perennial river which flows forever. It

may change it's path but will never ever dry up.

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