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Friendship Day Quotes: What makes a friend so special

August 04, 2013 11:22 IST

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On Friendship Day, we remember some of the warmest things said about friends and friendships from across the world.

Friends, they say are God's angels that enter our life when we least expect them.

On the special occasion of Friendship Day today, we took time to remember some of the most special and warmest things said about friends and friendship ever.

We begin with these words from William Shakespeare:

"A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.--William Shakespeare

Dear readers, do you have a special friend in your life?

What is the best thing about your friend that you love him/her so much? Tell us what friendship means to you!

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Friendship Day Quotes: What makes a friend so special

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“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.” -- Alfred Tennyson

Dear readers, do you have a special friend in your life?

What is the best thing about your friend that you love him/her so much? Tell us what friendship means to you!

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Friendship Day Quotes: What makes a friend so special

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When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means 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. --Henri Nouwen

Dear readers, do you have a special friend in your life?

What is the best thing about your friend that you love him/her so much? Tell us what friendship means to you!

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Friendship Day Quotes: What makes a friend so special

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

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

Just walk beside me and be my friend. -- Albert Camus

Dear readers, do you have a special friend in your life?

What is the best thing about your friend that you love him/her so much? Tell us what friendship means to you!

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Friendship Day Quotes: What makes a friend so special

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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, The Diary of Anais Nin

Dear readers, do you have a special friend in your life?

What is the best thing about your friend that you love him/her so much? Tell us what friendship means to you!

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Friendship Day Quotes: What makes a friend so special

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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship. -- Mary Dixon Thayer

Dear readers, do you have a special friend in your life?

What is the best thing about your friend that you love him/her so much? Tell us what friendship means to you!

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Friendship Day Quotes: What makes a friend so special

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When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out.

A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun.' -- Groucho Marx

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What is the best thing about your friend that you love him/her so much? Tell us what friendship means to you!

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Friendship Day Quotes: What makes a friend so special

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A true friend freely advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. --William Penn

Dear readers, do you have a special friend in your life?

What is the best thing about your friend that you love him/her so much? Tell us what friendship means to you!

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Friendship Day Quotes: What makes a friend so special

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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. --Oprah Winfrey

Dear readers, do you have a special friend in your life?

What is the best thing about your friend that you love him/her so much? Tell us what friendship means to you!

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Friendship Day Quotes: What makes a friend so special

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A friend is one who walks in when others walk out. --Walter Winchell

Dear readers, do you have a special friend in your life?

What is the best thing about your friend that you love him/her so much? Tell us what friendship means to you!

Share you Friendship Day messages and photos right here: