Friendship Day Quotes: 20 quotes by famous authors that describe true essence of friendship - Times of India

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Saturday, August 1, 2020

While we have no say in choosing our family, we do have an option of selecting friends who become family. True friends are the ones who love us despite knowing our flaws; they are the ones whom we often rely on even more than our family and relatives. So it becomes all the more important to express our love and gratitude to have such people in our lives every once in a while. Through ages authors have captured the beauty of true friendships in their works. Not only that but true and long lasting friendships have also been observed between authors in the history of literature, be it the bond between J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis or Toni Morrison and James Baldwin among others. Some writers' honest and timeless writings are one of the best ways to convey how grateful we feel to have friends who always have our back. In case you fall short of words or are unable to express your feelings well, then these beautiful quotes by famous authors will help you describe the true essence of friendship even today. Read on!
1. "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

2. “Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.” —Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

3. "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

4. “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

5. “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
― Aristotle

6. "Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant."
– Socrates

7. “Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don’t have to say anything.”
—Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

8. "The language of friendship is not words but meanings."
- Henry David Thoreau

9. “Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.”
― Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy

10. “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

11. “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
― Helen Keller

12. “No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
― Alice Walker

13. "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes."
– Friedrich Nietzsche

14. “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

15. “There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

16. “If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.”
― S.E. Hinton

17. “The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.”
― Jay McInerney

18. “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
19. “Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.”
― Charles Lamb
20. “Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.”
― Dean Koontz

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