We can't choose our family, but we can always choose friends who are like family to us. Our friends play an important role in our lives-- they are our support system, guide, mentor, family away from home, and the ones who love us unconditionally no matter what we do. On a larger scale, friendships between people, nations, and cultures can also help peace efforts and build bridges between different societies and communities. And so, in the year 2011, the United Nations (UN) proclaimed the idea of the International Day of Friendship which is celebrated every year on July 30. The UN's idea for this day is to involve youngsters, who are future leaders, in various community activities including different cultures, and hence promote understanding and honor diversity.
On the occasion of the International Day of Friendship 2023, here we list down some messages, quotes, wishes, and images you can share with your friends. Read on to know more.
International Friendship Day 2023: Best messages and wishes to share
1. Wishing you a happy International Day of Friendship on this special day! Thank you for being my guide and support.
2. Thank you for being my friend and for all that you have done for me so selflessly. Happy International Day of Friendship 2023!
3. In a world that is full of earthly pleasures, I always look to you. The reason: our friendship adds so much meaning and value to my life. Thank you for being an awesome friend to me!
4. No matter how far we are or how old we grow, you'll always be my special friend. Wish you a Happy Friendship Day 2023!
5. Thank you for being my best friend! You are the brightness star in my universe!
6. Best friends like you are a true blessing in my life. Thank you for all your love, kindness, and support always. Happy International Day of Friendship 2023!
7. Having a best friend like you is equivalent to having 10 friends in one's life. Thank you for being my support system. Happy International Day of Friendship 2023!
8. On this special day, I want to thank you for being my best friend and my 3 AM friend. I'm truly honoured to be your friend. Happy International Day of Friendship 2023!
9. While we may be miles apart but on this International Day of Friendship, let me tell you that you are very close to my heart. Love and hugs on this International Day of Friendship!
10. Have a wonderful day today, bestie! Happy International Day of Friendship 2023!
Friendship day quotes
1. “In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little the heart finds its mornings and is refreshed.”- Khalil Gibran
2. “My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” Henry Ford
3. “True friends are like diamonds – bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.” Nicole Richie
4. “Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.” Bill Watterson
5. “I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.”- Abraham Lincoln
6. “A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.” Arnold H. Glasgow
7. “I think that generosity is the essence of friendship.” Oscar Wilde
8. “We didn’t realise we were making memories, we were just having fun.” A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh.
9. “Friends hold a mirror up to each other; through that mirror, they can see each other in ways that would not otherwise be accessible to them, and it is this mirroring that helps them improve themselves as persons.” Aristotle
10. “There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.” Thomas Aquinas
11. “I get by with a little help with my friends.”- John Lennon
12. “My friends are my estate.”- Emily Dickinson
13. “A friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.”- Len Wein
14. “A friend loves you at all times.” Proverbs 17:17 [ERV]
15. “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
16. “Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.” —Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
17. “The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.” —Barbara Kingsolver, from “Stone Soup” in High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never
18. “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard
19. “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
20. “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus
21. “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain
22. “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
― Bob Marley
23. “If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”
― Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book
24. “When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”
― Jess C. Scott, The Intern
25. “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
Images to share on Friendship Day
