Do you know how we started celebrating this day?
In 1930, Joyce Hall who was the co founder of Hallmark cards first started Friendship day. His intention was to celebrate it on 2nd August.
In Paraguay, Dr. Ramon Artemio Bracho proposed the World Friendship Day concept on 20 July 1958.
But in 27th July 2011, the United Nations General Assembly declared 30 July as "International Day of Friendship"
But various countries celebrate Friendship day on different days:
Argentina, Brazil, Spain, Uruguay: 20 July
Bolivia: 23 July
Colombia: Second Saturday of March
Ecuador, Mexico, Venezuela : 14 July
Estonia, Finland: 14 February
Bangladesh, Malaysia, India, Singapore, UAE :First Sunday of August
Nepal, Paraguay : 30 July
Pakistan: 19 July
United States: 15 February
Ukraine: 9 June
Peru: First Saturday in July
For many people it is a joyous day. In some countries’ friends exchange friendship bands, cards and gifts.
In 1998, Nane Annan (wife of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan) named Winnie the Pooh as the world's Ambassador of Friendship at the United Nations to honour the friendship day.
But there are some sayings that the day is a ‘Marketing Gimmick’.
'With a little help from my friends' lyrics typography
For the tenth anniversary of Friendship Day, Beatles, released a song 'With a little help from my friends’ in 1967.
There is also a Women's Friendship Day which is celebrated on third Sunday of September. And February is designated as the Friendship Month.
Do you celebrate friendship day? Let us know how do you feel.
Let’s learn some amazing friendship Quotes:
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.
— Muhammad Ali
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
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
— Audrey Hepburn
Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
— Dumbledore
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
We weren’t sisters [or brothers] by birth, but we knew from the start…fate brought us together to be sisters [or brothers] by heart.
— Unknown
Best friends are the people in your life who make you laugh louder, smile brighter and live better.
— Unknown
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
Best friends understand when you say, ‘forget it.’ Wait forever when you say, ‘just a minute.’ Stay when you say, ‘leave me alone.’ And open the door before you can say, ‘come in’.
— Unknown
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
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
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
— Henry Ford
Best friends share laughs, memories and inside jokes. They will always be honest and stand by your side no matter what. They wipe your tears, pick you up when you fall, and are forever a piece of your heart.
— Unknown
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.
— Winnie the Pooh
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Throughout life you will meet one person who is like no other. You could talk to this person for hours and never get bored, you could tell this person things and they will never judge you. This person is your soulmate, your best friend. Don’t ever let them go.
— Unknown
A real friendship should not fade as time passes, and should not weaken because of space separation.
— John Newton
There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound.
— Diana Cortes
A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand.
— Kahlil Gibran
Getting to know new people and gaining new friends is one of life’s greatest pleasures. So conquer your fears and get out there.
— Tony Clark
Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they’re trying to find someone who’s going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.
— Anthony Robbins
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