Maryannaville™

International Friendship Day is celebrated annually on the first Sunday of August, in several countries. It was initially declared a holiday in honor of friends in the United States by the U.S. Congress in 1935.

” Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends. “
*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. “
*C. S. Lewis

” Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success. “
*Oscar Wilde

Could we but draw back the curtain,
That surrounds each others lives,
See the naked heart and spirit;
Know what spur the action gives;
Often we would find it better,
Purer than we think we would.
We would love each other better, if we only understood.

Originally posted 2008-08-02 20:08:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter