National Make A Friend Day 2021: 10 Quotes Celebrating The Eternal Bond

Meeting new people and making new friends is very important as it can open you to many new experiences and bring more happiness into your lives.

That is why National Make a Friend Day is crucial, as it gives you an opportunity to meet someone new who may change your life forever in a positive way. It is an annual celebration in the U.S. every 11th of February.

On this occasion, here are a few quotes about friendship and its importance, courtesy Pro Flowers and The Positivity Blog:

"Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life." — Amy Poehler
"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
"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'" – C.S. Lewis
"True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable." – David Tyson
"Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart." – Washington Irving
"She is a friend of mind. She gathers me, man. The pieces I am, she gathers them and gives them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind." – Toni Morrison
"The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another’s little lapses." — David Storey
"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
"True friends aren’t the ones who make your problems disappear. They are the ones who won’t disappear when you’re facing problems." — Unknown
"A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself." — Frances Ward Weller